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Beyond the Boundaries: The Future for Borderless Higher Education

Beyond the Boundaries: The Future for Borderless Higher Education

Don Olcott
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466639782|ISBN10: 1466639784|EISBN13: 9781466639799
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3978-2.ch003
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Olcott, Don. "Beyond the Boundaries: The Future for Borderless Higher Education." Global Challenges and Perspectives in Blended and Distance Learning, edited by J. Willems, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 36-54. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3978-2.ch003

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Olcott, D. (2013). Beyond the Boundaries: The Future for Borderless Higher Education. In J. Willems, B. Tynan, & R. James (Eds.), Global Challenges and Perspectives in Blended and Distance Learning (pp. 36-54). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3978-2.ch003

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Olcott, Don. "Beyond the Boundaries: The Future for Borderless Higher Education." In Global Challenges and Perspectives in Blended and Distance Learning, edited by J. Willems, B. Tynan, and R. James, 36-54. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3978-2.ch003

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Abstract

The rapid increase in internationalism and borderless higher education by public and for-profit universities is changing the face of the global higher education landscape. Today, universities have more opportunities for serving campus-based international students and extending their programs and research on the international stage. Students also have more choices than ever before in navigating their educational future and are becoming active consumers of global HE. Language, culture, and social norms are as critical as any educational strategies used to build and sustain international partnerships. An understanding, tolerance, and humility about the educational process in other countries is a necessity for building successful partnerships. Borderless higher education is highly complex and involves various risks for colleges and universities and the need to justify foreign ventures or adventures to key stakeholders at home. The “new global regionalism” will accelerate HE competition for students, and the global destination choices for students may drive more students to remain in their region than going to traditional destinations such as the US, UK, and Australia. Universities will function more like businesses, and their foreign partnerships and campus international recruitment will be based on leveraging profitable revenues to supplement their composite educational enterprise. This will be accentuated by reduced government funding and the need to temper continuous tuition and fee increases. Quality assurance agencies will exert greater pressure on universities to maintain accountability, program standards, and alignment with their core mission. University chief executives will need to navigate a range of complex issues before leading their universities into unchartered international waters. Indeed, some universities have no business in the business of borderless higher education. This chapter explores borderless higher education.

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