International Education: Opportunities and Challenges

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International Education Opportunities and
Challenges

• John Paxton
• 10 August 2004

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• My Background
• 1985 B.S. in Computer Science from the Ohio
  State University
• 1990 Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
  University of Michigan
• 1990-present Computer Science Professor,
  Montana State University

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• United States

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• Montana State University

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• Engineering Building

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• Opportunities
• 1996 Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
• 1999 University of Tamaulipas, Tampico, Mexico
• 2003 Don Bosco University, Soyapango, El
  Salvador
• 2004 Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
• 2005 ??? National University of Ireland, Galway
• 2006 ??? Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Al-Akhawayn University
• Contact Montana State sister university
• Duration 2 weeks
• Activities
• guest lectures in artificial intelligence course
• guest lectures in programming course
• general presentation
• curriculum discussions

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• University of Tamaulipas
• Contact sisters husbands brother
• Duration 2 days
• Activities
• conference talk
• Special Challenge pre-conference fiesta

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• Don Bosco University
• Contact former student
• Duration 1 month
• Activities
• neural network mini-course
• Common Lisp mini-course
• theory of computation mini-course
• guest lectures
• conference presentation
• curriculum discussions

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• Massey University
• Contact e-mail listserv (Guan Yue Hong)
• Duration 2 months
• Activities
• 157.235 (first half) networks and
  client/server design
• 157.762 block course software quality and
  reliability

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• NUI Galway - ???
• Contact Montana State sister university
• Duration 6 weeks
• Activities
• web programming course for 10-15 MSU students

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• Leipzig University - ???
• Contact Fulbright program
• Duration 6 months
• Activities
• web programming course
• customized algorithms/data structures course

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• Challenges
• Housing
• Transportation
• Different Courses
• Different Students
• Different Pedagogical Approaches (Block Courses)

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• Challenges Being Efficient

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• Upcoming Talk
• Experiences of a Short Term Visiting Lecturer
• Tuesday, August 24th
• IIMS Lab 3
• high noon

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Thank you!

• Questions??