ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to reflect the existing challenges of international academic mobility in the intersection of pre-, within- and post-pandemic times. It discusses the language and culture development and identity construction within international mobility. The three are said to be tightly linked, as both language and culture constitute human identity. The book then deals with international academic mobility in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also looks into the general challenges most students and stakeholders faced at the time when governments imposed regulated and restrictive lockdowns. The part discusses emerging distance internationalization as a new paradigm of international academic mobility. It then juxtaposes the traditional context of academic mobility with a newly emerging digital one. The part unveils the opportunities to incorporate short and long-format online collaboration in frames of international academic mobility.
