Project-based Learning Case of Master Students in the Russian North

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10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

project-based learning, university education, master programme, professional competences, internationalization

Abstract

The article studies a case of project-based learning in Northern Arctic Federal University, Russia. A group of master students studying Chinese was given a task to develop a topical research project in the field of higher education that would be useful for their professional development. The students choice of the project area was internationalization, namely students academic mobility. The interest was determined by increasing mutual interest of Russia and China in interaction in economic, political and cultural fields. The main aim of the project was to establish contacts with Chinese universities in order to organize programmes of academic mobility for students. The participants studied the educational system of China and selected thirty universities which they wanted to build relationships with. More than fifty letters of academic correspondence were written in the course of project work. The outcomes of students collaboration have been analysed by the project supervisors in this paper.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Maria Druzhinina
AU  - Inga Zashikhina
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Project-based Learning Case of Master Students in the Russian North
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Current issues of linguistics and didactics: The interdisciplinary approach in humanities" (CILDIAH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.13
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