Effective Transnational Education Programs: Concepts, Dimensions, Perspectives

As transnational education is becoming firmly embedded in the distance education landscape, governments and universities are calling for meaningful research on transnational education. This book describes the development and validation of a model for effective transnational education programs. The model used student experience as a key indicator of program effectiveness and included various dimensions of the transnational education context including student, instructor, curriculum and instruction design, interaction, evaluation and assessment, technology, and program management and organisational support. The model was validated against transnational education programs offered by Australian universities in Hong Kong. The results of the validation indicated that students in all the programs were in agreement as to the factors they consider most important to the effectiveness of transnational programs. The presented multidimensional model for effective transnational education programs may serve as a source of information for academics and administrators involved in planning, design and implementation of transnational programs.