The creation and cultivation strategy of transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning community in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative

Xiangping Cui, associate professor, Lanzhou University (China)
Lin Ding, faculty mentor

Background

• Hometown: Lanzhou City, China
• Degrees received: PhD in educational technology, Northwest Normal university, China

What is the issue or problem addresses in your research?

Intercollegiate collaborative learning is considered one of the important ways to promote educational equity and balanced development of education. Under Belt and Road Initiative, transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning started to get widespread attention and universal implementation. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the creation and cultivation strategies of transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning community in the context of the Belt and Road.

What methodology did you use in your research?

The paper sorts out the typical intercollegiate collaborative learning communities at home and abroad with the content analysis method, analyzes the basic structure of the transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning communities with the deductive method, and proposes a community creation and cultivation strategy based on transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning activities using the inductive method.

What are the purpose/rationale and implications of your research?

Transnational intercollegiate collaborative learning in the context of the Belt and Road is a complex task with intercultural and interdisciplinary nature. Therefore, it is hoped that this research can inspire more researchers to care and think about this topic, jointly promote the realization of the vision and goal of transnational intercollegiate collaboration, build connections and provide talent support for the Belt and Road world education community.