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Learning Initiative Trends in Higher Education: A Domestic and International Overview

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Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) operate in an environment of continuous change. Relationship building with domestic and international partners equals activities that meet the strategic interests of institutions, stakeholders, and overseas partners who ensure sustainable growth across borders. Domestic relations primarily focus on ways that ensure completion of studies through diversified, sustainable, and experiential curricula. Current trends suggest the need for flexibility in meeting the socioeconomic changes learners face in a globalized world. Strength exists but also establishing new partnerships across national borders will help expand the intercultural and global perspectives of students. A careful orchestration of the internal administrative functions of HEIs will address complexities for both domestic and international learning initiative trends. In particular, closer collaboration with on-campus but also local and international community partners will ensure higher levels of success.

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  1. State University of New York, Oswego, NY, USA

    Lorrie Clemo, Jason Macleod & Efstathios G. Kefallonitis

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  1. Technological Educational Institute of Athens , Egaleo, Greece

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  2. Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece

    Damianos P. Sakas

  3. Technological Educational Institute of Athens , Egaleo, Greece

    Petros Tomaras

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Clemo, L., Macleod, J., Kefallonitis, E.G. (2017). Learning Initiative Trends in Higher Education: A Domestic and International Overview. In: Kavoura, A., Sakas, D., Tomaras, P. (eds) Strategic Innovative Marketing. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33865-1_91

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