Putting your international experience to work

How can we enhance the value of students’ international experiences, particularly in relation to employability?

This project dissemination event will present the findings and outcomes of an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) funded Extension Grant which builds on an earlier OLT project, Bringing the learning home (Gothard, Gray & Downey, 2012). 

The current project developed an accessible online programme targeting career planning in the context of students’ outbound mobility experiences. This multi-media, evidence-based program supports students’ development of key employability skills at each phase of their international experience: Preparing, Being there, and Coming back.

Participants in this workshop will hear about recent research about the professional benefits of outbound mobility experiences, learn about the new online resource, 'Putting your international experience to work’, and discuss ways to implement it in their different institutional contexts.

Presenters

Dr Wendy Green is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching (TILT), University of Tasmania. Wendy co-leads the Bringing the learning home extension project with Dr Jessica Gallagher, at the University of Queensland. Wendy has recently been awarded a 2016 National Teaching Fellowship on Engaging students as partners in global Learning.

Adjunct Associate Professor Jan Gothard. Jan led the original Bringing the learning home project at Murdoch University. The project was completed in 2012 and the Final Report is available on the OLT website.

Jan is a team member on the extension grant and will co-present the session.

Please RSVP to Natalie Davis, Murdoch Universtiy [email protected]