Practical Recommendations for Optimizing the Process of Formation and Development of Academic Mobility of Students in Higher Educational Institutions of Russia

Rimma R Khanmurzina,Elena A Burdukovskaya,Inessa V Lebedeva,Svetlana I Ashmarina,Ayrat F Kaviyev,Oleg V Sinitzyn

doi:10.5539/res.v7n1p41

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Academic mobility enhances the accessibility, quality and effectiveness of education and is an important tool for creating a global educational area and for supporting mobility of human capital. Therefore, this article aims to develop practical recommendations for optimizing the process of formation and development of academic mobility of students. The paper presents practical recommendations at the regional and university levels, allowing to organize the process systematically and holistically, purposefully uniting the efforts of all its subjects, and choosing priorities for action in accordance with individual and typological characteristics of certain students. Provisions of this article may be useful for teachers, management and staff of international departments of higher educational institutions of professional education.

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IntroductionFormation and development of academic mobility of students has been agreed with the leading national and international trends in the development and reform of higher education
Academic mobility is an integrative quality of a person determined by political, economic, cultural, educational factors and characterizing the dynamic state of the individual able to adapt and respond to changes in the content and conditions of the educational activity, conscious of the need to develop his or her educational and professional creativity potential in the conditions of the Common Education Space (Tregubova et al, 2008).Formation and development of academic mobility of students has been agreed with the leading national and international trends in the development and reform of higher education
Provisions of this article may be useful for teachers, management and staff of international departments of higher educational institutions of professional education

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Introduction

Formation and development of academic mobility of students has been agreed with the leading national and international trends in the development and reform of higher education. Successful development of academic mobility of students is brought about by a number of conditions, defined by the normative documents of the Bologna process and by the process of higher education reform in Russia (Masalimova, 2008). In the founding documents of the Bologna Process the need to develop academic mobility, as a basic condition for the formation of the European Higher Education Space, is constantly emphasized. The main goal of mobility is to give the student an opportunity to get a versatile “European” education in the elected field of study, provide access to recognized centers of knowledge, which have traditionally formed the leading scientific schools, to expand the knowledge of the student in all areas of European culture, to instill in him a sense of European citizenship. Mobility allows participants to take advantage of the wealth of the European area of higher education, including democratic values, diversity of cultures and languages, the diversity of higher education systems (Tregubova, 2009; Znovenko Land Makarenya, 2005; Khairullina, 2007)

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