ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book reviews the emerging contexts and sets the scene for subsequent discussions on intercultural learning and teaching and academic development. The internationalization of higher education has in recent years become one site of significant change across multiple areas of university life, and the practice of learning and teaching has much to respond to. The book concerns both, but situates them in the emerging context of higher education, where significant expansions of institutional global footprints through international partnerships, networks, and programmes are bringing new challenges to the ways in which learning and teaching are enacted. Institutional international footprints are transforming internationalization most directly through a range of developments that fall under the umbrella of Transnational education (TNE). Changes within global higher education reflect those in other sectors of society and within the everyday experiences of faculty and students, carried by advancing neo-liberalism, technologies, communications, and mobilities.
