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Article Dans Une Revue Marine Technology Society Journal Année : 2015

Enhancing International Maritime Student Education Based on an Adapted Pedagogy

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Over the past 15 years in France, the number of foreign students has multiplied by three. On some campuses, the percentage of international students can reach up to 50%. As a result, universities are struggling to provide adequate support and resources to provide international students with success while simultaneously not increasing the cost of education or adding too many courses delaying graduation. Unfortunately no solution exists and reactions to the issue remain limited to each university with their own specifications. However no solution can be found without first being aware of the nature of the challenges facing international students. Language barriers, cultural differences, learning and teaching style differences can be quite daunting to an international student leading to an alienating atmosphere. To face this challenge, at Telecom Bretagne, - the National School of Telecommunications of Brittany France -, we have tried to address this issue through two separate pathways with our own students. The first is the creation of a bridging semester for international students based on an active learning pedagogy with associated projects connected to Oceanic engineering. The second is the integration in the teaching equation of the background diversity of students and their difficulties to communicate and the necessity to give them skills to challenge these difficulties. Based on this international experience with our students, we have reused this adapting teaching approach to help international students involved in the Student Poster Competition during the MTS/IEEE OES OCEANS conferences with a specific training day before the competition. The following describes the adaptation of our teaching to a heterogeneous audience and more generally, how to effectively engage multi-national students in active learning challenges and how Ocean Technology can act as a guideline conveying a message of academic excellence.

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hal-01212215 , version 1 (06-10-2015)

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Christophe Sintes, André Le Saout, Frederic Maussang. Enhancing International Maritime Student Education Based on an Adapted Pedagogy. Marine Technology Society Journal, 2015, 49 (4), pp.13 - 15. ⟨10.4031/MTSJ.49.4.16⟩. ⟨hal-01212215⟩
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