Understanding Cross Cultural Through PBL For Higher Education Students at UNIMUDA Sorong

COVID-19 has greatly impacted all aspects of our everyday lives. A global pandemic of this magnitude, even as we now emerge from strict measures such as lockdowns and await the potential for a ‘new tomorrow’ with the arrival of vaccines, will certainly have long-lasting consequences. We will have to adapt and learn to live in a different way. Accordingly, teaching and learning have also been greatly impacted. Changes to academic curricula have had tremendous cross-cultural effects on higher education students. This study will investigate, by way of focus groups comprised of students studying at Greek universities during the pandemic, the cross-cultural effects that this ‘global experience’ has had on higher education, and particularly on students in Greek universities. The data collection tools are interviews and observations gathered from focus groups.

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Cross-cultural impacts of COVID-19 on higher education learning and teaching practices in Spain, Oman, Nigeria and Cambodia: A cross-cultural study

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice ◽

10.53761/1.18.5.8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 135-151

Author(s):

Javier Cifuentes-Faura ◽

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Deborah Odu Obor ◽

Loeurt To ◽

Ishaq Al-Naabi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Social Support ◽

Teaching Practices ◽

Well Being ◽

Total Sample ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Education Students ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Cultural Impacts

Adapting new learning and teaching practices during COVID-19 pandemic has impacted students’ learning in higher education. Using a cross-sectional research methodology, the study attempted to understand the cross-cultural impacts of COVID-19 on higher education students in Cambodia, Nigeria, Oman and Spain to determine the changes that COVID-19 has brought about in higher education students; examine how students' learning behaviour and attitudes have changed during COVID-19; identify the challenges they have experienced; and identify the changes that have taken place in learning and teaching in the selected countries. A total sample of 242 students was randomly selected from four higher education institutions in each of the selected countries. The study provided a cross-cultural understanding of how COVID-19 has affected students’ well-being, behaviors and learning. The results show that COVID-19 had adverse effects on the well-being of students in the four countries. Students received inadequate social support and security protection from others and instructors when they needed it. Omani students received less social support compared with the other three countries. COVID-19 had the worse effect on students’ employment in the four countries. The effect pressed much concern on Nigerian students who experience a great job loss. Students from the four countries were required to put a lot of effort and energy to fulfil the requirements in the program.

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The Practice of Religious Tourism among Generation Z’s Higher Education Students

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci11090469 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 469

Author(s):

Julio García-del Junco ◽

Eva M. Sánchez-Teba ◽

Mercedes Rodríguez-Fernández ◽

Irene Gallardo-Sánchez

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Education Students ◽

Communication Plan ◽

Generation Z ◽

Religious Tourism ◽

Shed Light

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the possibilities offered by religious tourism according to Generation Z’s education in values. Both the theoretical and empirical frameworks of the research have focused on Hofstede’s Cultural Model, aiming to predict with a certain level of success the influence of cultural and social values on the consumption of religious tourism by the young age segment of Generation Z. A cross-cultural analysis was performed using exponential sampling (Snowball Sampling). All respondents were higher education students. The surveys were carried out using “Google Forms”. The results obtained allow the design of a communication plan for the management of Religious Tourism according to the dimensions of Masculinity-Femininity, Individualism-Collectivism, Distance to Power, Risk Aversion, and Long-term Orientation.

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Addressing cross-cultural teamwork barriers

Industry and Higher Education ◽

10.1177/0950422216665546 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (5) ◽

pp. 315-320 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Steven R. Levitt

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Intercultural Competence ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Education Students ◽

Team Members ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Industry Practice

This study explores cultural factors affecting international team dynamics and the implications for industry practice and higher education. Despite decades of studying and experience with cultural diversity, international work groups continue to be challenged by ethnocentrism and prejudices. Central to the context is that cultural differences in international teamwork result in a dynamic push–pull tension between seemingly contradictory forces: the diversity of the team members and the desired unity of the team’s purpose and activities. Thus there is a critical demand for increased intercultural competence for industry practitioners and higher education students. Recommendations for improving international teamwork dynamics and implications for higher education curricula are offered.

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