The 100,000 Strong Initiative is a government-supported initiative that encourages 100,000 students to study abroad in China over a four-year period. This program was started for two main reasons: first, to keep up with the number of Chinese students studying abroad in America. In 2010 alone over 150,000 Chinese students were enrolled here for school!
Over the past two decades, enrollment in study abroad programs has tripled; during the 2009-2010 academic year alone over 270,000 students studied abroad. The question is quickly becoming… is digital communication and Internet access helping or hindering students that study abroad? The constant contact with home could mean that students are not getting a full experience of their host country.
It’s amazing how things work out sometimes. Over 60 years ago Betty Werther and her friend stuck their thumbs out and hitchhiked all over the globe. They visited Paris, Berlin, Sweden, Norway, the Middle East, and Denmark and somewhere along the way, Betty lost her passport.
Is it about time to retire the traditional lecture style class? Students and professors alike are weighing in on the LectureFail project. Students feel that professors need to embrace new technologies in order to make classes more interactive and engaging. On the other hand, professors argue that students need to take advantage of the opportunity to learn from their lectures.