EAIE Toulouse 2024
Workshops
A workshop is a training experience available to conference participants upon payment of an additional fee on the Tuesday of the Conference. Workshops provide skills and leave participants with enhanced knowledge, new information and take-aways. Additionally, workshops are a networking opportunity to connect with fellow participants before the sessions begin on Wednesday.
Tuesday 17 September
09:00 – 12:30
W01: Think before you speak: Language awareness and parallel language use in policy development and implementation
W01: Think before you speak: Language awareness and parallel language use in policy development and implementation
Workshop
Language and culture play a critical role in the internationalisation of higher education institutions. However, despite this ubiquity and relevance, many institutions struggle with developing, implementing, and monitoring adequate policies in all university operations in various contexts with multiple stakeholders.
This workshop discusses achievements and challenges with examples from national, institutional, and disciplinary contexts, and builds in space for interaction and networking.
Based on insights from organisational change and experiences, the facilitators present a structured, contextual approach for effective policy development, implementation, and monitoring, and discuss how to engage multiple stakeholders and organise resources.
This workshop will help you:
- Understand language policies and developments in various contexts, with differences, commonalities, and dynamics
- Extend your personal and institutional networks
- Reflect on issues and policies
- Develop, implement, and monitor an institutional language policy
- Engage multiple stakeholders and organise resources
This workshop is designed for all staff working with or interested in language policies, particularly staff responsible for policy development, monitoring, and implementation.
Speakers
Franka van den Hende
Emma Hägg
W02: Moving towards strategic enrollment management
W02: Moving towards strategic enrollment management
Workshop
This workshop targets professionals in marketing, recruitment, enrollment and admissions roles, and tackles the complexities of aligning diverse organisational interests to ensure a seamless journey for international students, from initial interaction to the end of the first term. Specifically, it will address organisational alignment, enhancing strategic enrollment management (SEM), exploring adaptable organisational models, offering support solutions, encouraging a customised approach, focusing on tangible outcomes and delivering actionable results.
Participants will be provided with practical insights and strategies to enhance international student recruitment and enrolment to support internationalisation.
This workshop will help you:
- Understand the concept of strategic enrollment management
- Learn about possible organisational models that can be used for SEM alignment
- Gain insight into the application of SEM in your own organisation
- Put some of the SEM principles into practice in your own situation, by creating the initial framework of an action plan
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for mid to senior-level officers in a marketing, recruitment, admissions or enrollment position.
Speakers
Monique Swennenhuis
Christopher Connor
W03: Enhancing collaborations: Designing and implementing university partnership evaluations [SOLD OUT]
W03: Enhancing collaborations: Designing and implementing university partnership evaluations [SOLD OUT]
Workshop
This half-day workshop will guide participants through the process of designing and conducting an evaluation of a strategic partnership or other priority partnership between higher education institutions.Participants will learn about different types and methods of evaluation. They will be challenged to think about existing or potential partnerships and how to evaluate them at different stages. During the workshop, participants will familiarise themselves with an evaluation framework designed specifically for strategic partnerships.
The workshop will approach and explore this framework through hands-on exercises, case study examples and the sharing of experiences.By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready to design and implement an evaluation fit for their institution.
This workshop will help you:
- Summarise different methods and stages of the evaluation of strategic partnerships
- Demonstrate a familiarity with relevant resources (EVALUATE framework and handbook)
- Design an evaluation of a strategic partnership fit for specific institutional purpose
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for higher education officers who work with university strategic partnerships and other priority partners such as partnership managers, student mobility coordinators and directors of international offices at university offices as well as those who are based in faculties and schools.
Speakers
Sara Dinesen
Thommy Gatling
W04: From cultural roots to new routes: Examining the bottlenecks and solutions for international students
W04: From cultural roots to new routes: Examining the bottlenecks and solutions for international students
Workshop
This workshop will explore how staff involved in internationalisation can help Gen Z prepare for life in a globalising, diverse and interconnected world. The student community has been affected by the digital age, climate change, a shifting financial landscape and uncertainty globally.
In this workshop, participants will discuss the impact on their academic and emotional capacities, considering how best to understand difficulties and difference to produce a more enriching and successful learning experience. Themes such as competences, attitudes, communication and intercultural knowledge will be explored, with participants reflecting on their own experiences with students, using lived-experience videos from the international community to encourage dialogue.
This workshop will help you:
- Gain insight into adaptive and maladaptive ways of dealing with academic challenges in a globally uncertain world
- Understand warning signs that indicate risk among students
- Increase culturally sensitive skills to prepare graduates for a diverse career globally
- Understand and manage emotional processes that enable students to increase self-direction and autonomy
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for lecturers, international student advisors, study abroad tutors, counsellors and psychologists, supervisors of thesis students and international recruitment officers.
Speakers
Stephanie Griffiths
Marijke van Oppen
W05: Great minds think differently: A disciplinary approach to engage academics in curriculum internationalisation
W05: Great minds think differently: A disciplinary approach to engage academics in curriculum internationalisation
Workshop
Curriculum internationalisation (IoC), a complex academic process that is vital for campus-wide global engagement, relies heavily on academic staff. Engaging faculty beyond a few champions has been historically challenging. This is a well-known problem.
Workshop participants will analyse academic disciplines, using 25 years of research-based practices, and create discipline-specific communication strategies to boost faculty involvement in internationalising the curriculum.
This workshop will help you:
- Gain a deep understanding of the unique disciplinary features in the four (hard/soft, pure/applied) categories, and understand how they each uniquely manifest in IoC
- Analyse how these disciplinary features inform IoC communication strategies across each of the disciplinary categories
- Develop discipline-specific communication strategies which can be used immediately
Who is it for?
This workshop is particularly relevant for internationalisation officers, educational developers, and academics who are involved in leading curriculum internationalisation.
Speakers
Melanie Agnew
Pouneh Eftekhari
09:00 – 17:00
W08: Creative Leadership: tools and practices for your daily office challenges
W08: Creative Leadership: tools and practices for your daily office challenges
Workshop
Our current university world is full of uncertainty, complexity, and scarce resources. Pandemics, wars, climate change, technological advancement and political shifts add little clarity, and do not provide simple solutions. Teams are increasingly diverse, including people of different skill sets and backgrounds. This all calls for a new and different type of leadership that inspires teams to co-create, learn, and grow with the challenges they face. As university teams, we need to increase our creativity, our power to improvise, and our agility. Not only to survive the waves, but also to surf them.
In this interactive full-day workshop, participants will learn several creative thinking techniques that will aid them in embracing future challenges.
This workshop will help you:
- Gain theoretical knowledge of Creative Leadership principles, and understand how they can be used in international higher education management
- Understand how to use different creative thinking techniques and tools to navigate through chaos, and understand how to leverage them for problem-solving in current contexts
- Learn about future uncertainty planning and find their personal WHY for the international office
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for international office managers, international programme managers, international project managers, (senior) international policy officers.
Speakers
Dyane Koreman
Ceren Genc
W09: Future-proofing your funnel: Unlocking Gen Alpha insights for student recruitment excellence
W09: Future-proofing your funnel: Unlocking Gen Alpha insights for student recruitment excellence
Workshop
It's time for change! The oldest batch of Generation Alpha will be knocking at your doors within the next two years! Although we can learn from their Millennial parents' behaviour, and they share some traits with Gen Z, Gen Alpha interacts in different terms, and educational institutions must prepare early to better attract them.
This full-day workshop will be an intensive and immersive experience, offering participants the opportunity to deep-dive into the complexities of modern international student recruitment. With case studies and hands-on activities, participants will leave with a clear roadmap to transform their recruitment strategies into tactics that match Gen Alpha's expectations and make a significant impact on their enrollment goals.
This workshop will help you:
- Understand generational differences: realise how differences between Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha impact student recruitment strategies
- Innovate in recruitment techniques: adapt engagement strategies to treat Gen Alpha prospects as co-creators
- Use new communication channels: acquire the skills to effectively use new channels and techniques to meet Gen Alpha in their world
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced professionals with a minimum of 3 to 4 years of experience in international student recruitment. If you are ready to change the way you approach recruitment and are committed to staying ahead of the curve, this workshop is perfect for you.
Speakers
Alejandra Otero
Menno Kramer
W11: Designing inclusive global education experiences with Cultural Intelligence, co-creativity & social innovation
W11: Designing inclusive global education experiences with Cultural Intelligence, co-creativity & social innovation
Workshop
Embark on a transformative journey to design inclusive global learning experiences, specifically tailored for broadening student participation. Rooted in Cultural Intelligence (CQ), co-creativity, and social innovation, this workshop offers international educators hands-on strategies to bridge educational gaps.
Participants will gain insights into helping students adapt to cultural differences, discover innovative collaboration tools, and learn different approaches to embedding social innovation. Be ‘en route’ with us, leading the charge towards a future where education knows no boundaries. Together, we can shape a future where education is not just global, but also inclusive and transformative, ensuring every student feels valued, and empowered.
This workshop will help you:
- Understand CQ and its role in global education
- Develop strategies for intercultural challenges using CQ
- Recognise the importance of collaborative innovation in education
- Acquire skills to use collaborative tools effectively
- Gain insights into social innovation for inclusivity
- Learn to design global learning modules
Who is it for?
This workshop is tailored for higher education professionals across diverse sectors, encompassing university leadership, curriculum design, policy formulation, and community collaboration. Designed to offer rich insights, the content will resonate with seasoned professionals while remaining accessible and insightful for those newer to the field.
• Improve reflection and ideation capacities
Speakers
Guido De Wilde
Mark Majewsky Anderson
13:30 – 17:00
W13: Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging: Are we speaking the same language?
W13: Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging: Are we speaking the same language?
Workshop
In this workshop, participants will explore the role of language and diverse identities in fostering inclusive international education. Become aware and gain practical skills to address accentism, respect pronoun choices, and take informed steps towards more inclusive language use in general. Join us in creating a more equitable and supportive international education space.
This workshop will help you:
- Highlight diversity work as part of responsible internationalisation
- Understand the implications of language and accentism for an inclusive internationalisation
- Gain guidance regarding using inclusive pronouns for internationalisation
- Analyse terminology in DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) for inclusive language in educational settings
- Learn how accentism, pronouns, and inclusive language are linked with intersectional justice
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for any international education professional because issues of language and DEIB impact all in the field.
Speakers
Stella Saliari
Omolabake Fakunle
W15: Using an evidence-based practice approach when designing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) environments
W15: Using an evidence-based practice approach when designing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) environments
Workshop
The design of COIL projects is often not founded on evidence-based practice or empirical research. This can lead to educators making uninformed decisions when designing courses, resulting in sub-optimal COIL experiences for students.
This hands-on workshop will explore how COIL can be designed using knowledge and research from the field. Facilitators and participants will collaborate in designing the optimal COIL project that combines research and practical experience.
This workshop will help you:
- Have a greater awareness of useful collaborative/cooperative learning principles
- Be more aware of empirical research on COIL that can guide practice
- Have an insight on how you can conduct research on the COIL courses that you develop and teach
- Come away with a co-constructed concept of what the optimal COIL might look like
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for educators, researchers, instructional designers, international coordinators or any professional who is interested in offering quality education to their students by implementing practices based on evidence-based practice and not only anecdotal evidence or best practices.
Speakers
Simone Hackett
Mark Dawson
W16: Micro-credentials: From the European concept to an effective international programme
W16: Micro-credentials: From the European concept to an effective international programme
Workshop
More and more universities are offering, or planning to offer, micro-credentials, often with an eye to the international context. But how can micro-credentials effectively support innovative teaching and learning practices? What are the rules universities should follow in order to design successful international micro-credentials?
After presenting the European framework and outlining how universities can benefit from micro-credentials, including from a lifelong learning perspective, the workshop will challenge participants to actively design a micro-credential. Based on the results of experimentation and via a role-play scenario, participants will be invited to work together to acquire the tools and methodology to develop a micro-credential.
This workshop will help you:
- Acquire general knowledge of the European approach to micro-credentials, definitions and regulatory frameworks in European Higher Education Area, and opportunities for universities
- Understand the roles different stakeholders can play in implementing micro-credential programmes
- Gain methods and tools useful to design an international micro-credential
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for higher education professionals (teaching and learning services, continuing education) and academic staff interested in developing micro-credentials.
Speakers
Lara Sorrentino
