This chapter revisits the concept of internationalisation at home in light of the COVID pandemic and also of experiences and ongoing discourses on internationalisation. These include how internationalisation at home relates to diversity, inclusion and decolonisation of curricula. It discusses how the COVID pandemic has led to increased attention to internationalisation at home but also that confusion about terminology and the desire for physical mobility to be available to students may lead us to return to pre-COVID practices, in which internationalisation is mainly understood as mobility for a small minority of students and internationalisation of the home curriculum is a poor second best. A component of this chapter is how Virtual Exchange and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) have moved into the spotlight during the pandemic but were already in focus areas well before. This will be illustrated by some recent developments in internationalisation at home, mainly from non-Anglophone, European and particularly Dutch perspectives.
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Dieses Manifest postuliert, dass die aus den Geisteswissenschaften kommenden Medienwissenschaften keinen produktiven Zugriff auf die Neuen Medien und vor allem das Internet ermöglicht haben. Der übergeordnete Begriff «Medien» wird mehr und mehr zu einem leeren Signifikanten. In Zeiten universitärer Reformen, geistiger Armut und einer aufblühenden Kreativindustrie müssen wir uns von schwammigen Konvergenz-Ansätzen verabschieden und stattdessen gründliche Detailstudien zu Netzwerken und digitaler Kultur vorantreiben. Es ist an der Zeit, Autonomie und Ressourcen für die Erforschung Neuer Medien zu beanspruchen, um endlich die institutionelle Peripherie zu verlassen und Anschluss an die Gesellschaft zu finden.--This manifesto argues that humanities-based «media studies» never had a grip on new media and internet education: The term «media» is well under way of becoming an empty signifier. In times of budget cuts, creative industries, and intellectual poverty, we have to push aside wishy-washy convergence approaches and go for specialized in-depth studies of networks and digital culture. It is time for new media to claim autonomy and resources in order to leave, finally, the institutional margins and catch up with society.
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