Resources

Resources

Facilitating interaction between diverse student groups

Finding common ground, a guide for academics, offers information and strategies for enhancing interaction between domestic and international students.

Engaging home and international students is a guide for lecturers new to teaching who work with diverse groups of students in mainstream undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Connecting classrooms: Using online technology to deliver global learning, a guide from the American Council of Education that provides insight into the considerations, benefits and challenges of developing a new Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program.

Strategic Enhancement Programme: Internationalising the curriculum toolkit developed by the University of Brighton, offers a set of ‘hands-on’ reflective resources designed to support university teaching staff to develop and facilitate intercultural engagement in learning, teaching and assessment.

NEW! Beyond Small Talk: Effective Icebreakers for University Educators presents four practical icebreaker activities that build genuine peer connections within the university classroom without the usual awkwardness—each designed to support various learning goals and to be adaptable to your specific teaching context.

Inclusive teaching and learning

‘Promising practices’ for inclusive teaching and learning presents seven principles for inclusive teaching and offers advice and tips on teaching practices that enable all students to actively engage in learning.

Theory into practice strategies: Small groups is a help sheet from Federation University that offers some strategies for making tutorials with a culturally diverse student population more inclusive.

Create an inclusive classroom is a webpage hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching + Learning Lab that provides educators with resources, practical suggestions and direction to help create a classroom that welcomes diverse thoughts and perspectives, including ideological diversity.

Creating culturally inclusive learning and teaching environments resources from Griffith University outline strategies, tips and good practice examples, including:

Viewpoint diversity

The following resources assist educators in navigating dialogue about contested issues and building mutual understanding in classes with students from a range of different perspectives and backgrounds.

Promoting viewpoint diversity resources developed by the Heterodox Academy include a range of videos, how-to guides, and classroom activities, that can be filtered for material pertaining to undergraduate and/or graduate students. Some helpful resources include:

Promoting constructive dialogue across difference resource Library developed by the OpenMind offers evidence-based tools for creating learning environments that foster mutual understanding, such as interactive online lessons, conversation guides, videos, and readings.

Managing polarising topics in the classroom is a CSHE developed guide for educators on how to lead students through discussions on contested topics.

Create an inclusive classroom is a webpage hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching + Learning Lab that provides educators with resources, practical suggestions and direction to help create a classroom that welcomes diverse thoughts and perspectives, including ideological diversity.

Developing intercultural competencies

The resources and websites below offer guidance for educators redesigning curriculum in order to help develop students' intercultural and related competencies.

Manual for developing intercultural competencies: Story circles offers a structured yet flexible UNESCO-piloted methodology for developing intercultural competencies in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal.

Internationalisation and cultural diversity webpage at Griffith University is designed to help determine the extent to which the course contains internationalisation specific learning experiences. It provides useful examples and strategies for integrating international perspectives into course content and learning and teaching activities. Helpful resources that consider intercultural competencies include:

Self reflective practice

“What is reflective practice?”

This concise but comprehensive page from Cambridge Assessment International Education provides an overview of reflective teaching practice, including a video with educators  discussing what reflective practice means to them, discussion of the benefits of reflective practice, research behind reflective practice, and practical suggestions. Especially valuable for educators might be (a) the checklist of five main principles to ensure one would get the most out of their reflections and (b) the list of clear next steps.

Implicit bias

This webpage from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching + Learning Lab provides an overview of implicit bias, including a scholarly summary of what it is and how to mitigate it. The page also includes multiple lists of clear, practical steps for addressing implicit bias in the classroom, including research-based strategies to reduce bias.

“Four ways teachers can reduce implicit bias”

Jill Suttie’s 2016 article in University of California Berkeley’s Greater Good Magazine provides a clear, concise discussion of ways that teachers can reduce implicit bias. It suggests that teachers (1) cultivate awareness of their biases, (2) work to increase empathy and empathic communication, (3) practice mindfulness and loving-kindness, and (4) develop cross-group friendships in their own lives. Links to resources, empirical evidence, and further information are provided under each heading.

Toolkits for developing or redesigning curricula

The resources below can assist educators in deciding if or how to design curricula to include more intercultural or international elements. They offer a range of step-by-step guides, worksheets, and tools for reflection and evaluation.

Strategic Enhancement Programme: Internationalising the curriculum toolkit developed by the University of Brighton, offers a set of ‘hands-on’ reflective resources designed to support university teaching staff to develop and facilitate intercultural engagement in learning, teaching and assessment.

Internationalising the curriculum, a four-part toolkit from Liverpool John Moores University, includes a sequence of lessons and activities to guide academic staff through developing more internationalised curricula.

Implementing internationalisation at home produced by the European Association for International Education (EAIE) provides case studies and practical tools for developing international curricula (copies can be ordered through the EAIE website).

Internationalisation and cultural diversity webpage at Griffith University is designed to help determine the extent to which the course contains internationalisation specific learning experiences. It provides useful examples and strategies for integrating international perspectives into course content and learning and teaching activities. Helpful resources include:

Good practice guides

Internationalising curricula: A typology to guide practice outlines the typology developed by Arkoudis and Baik (2018, revised 2022), upon which this website is based. It presents four broad ways of embedding internationalising in curricula and provides examples for each.

Finding common ground, a guide for academics, offers information and strategies for enhancing interaction between domestic and international students.

‘Promising practices’ for inclusive teaching and learning presents seven principles for inclusive teaching and offers advice and tips on teaching practices that enable all students to actively engage in learning.

Engaging home and international students is a guide for lecturers new to teaching who work with diverse groups of students in mainstream undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Internationalising the curriculum, a short guide from the Higher Education Academy provides strategies, tips and resources for internationalising curricula.

Connecting classrooms: Using online technology to devilver global learning, a guide from the American Council of Education that provides insight into the considerations, benefits and challenges of developing a new Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program.

Managing polarising topics in the classroom is a CSHE developed guide for educators on how to lead students through discussions on contested topics.

IoC showcase videos

These videos from Swinburne University of Technology’s IoC Showcase provide more detail about IoC and how to approach it, including:

Useful websites

Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Action website offers a five stage process for IoC and provides focus questions and key activities associated with each stage that teaching teams can use to stimulate reflection and discussion about IoC within programs.

European Association for International Education resources webpage includes podcasts, research, conference presentations, and an extensive library of publications available to EAIE members.

Comprehensive Internationalization webpage of the American Council on Education (ACE) provides a range of relevant resources and literature, including blog posts and reports.

Promoting viewpoint diversity resources developed by the Heterodox Academy include a range of videos, how-to guides, and classroom activities, that can be filtered for material pertaining to undergraduate and/or graduate students. Some helpful resources include:

Promoting constructive dialogue across difference resource Library developed by the OpenMind offers evidence-based tools for creating learning environments that foster mutual understanding, such as interactive online lessons, conversation guides, videos, and readings.

Internationalisation and cultural diversity webpage at Griffith University is designed to help determine the extent to which the course contains internationalisation specific learning experiences. It provides useful examples and strategies for integrating international perspectives into course content and learning and teaching activities. Helpful resources include: