Harshita TRIPATHI

Abstract: Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) enables virtual mobility, giving students global exposure and global citizenship development without travel costs. As AI becomes embedded in these cross-border collaborations, it brings both promise and tension: lowering language barriers, bridging time zones, and scaffolding teamwork, while potentially diluting authentic intercultural experience and favoring better-resourced institutions. This interactive panel brings together academics from diverse higher education institutions to examine whether AI democratizes international learning or deepens existing divides, drawing on perspectives from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia regions with distinct institutional, regulatory, and resource contexts. Drawing on practitioner experience from Malaysia, Dubai, and India, and on COIL projects across Asian and global universities, the session surfaces real challenges, viz. equity gaps, divergent AI governance, and difficulty measuring intangible outcomes like global citizenship. It maps where AI genuinely lowers barriers (language access, administrative capacity, curriculum flexibility) versus where it quietly entrenches advantage (infrastructure, data literacy, vendor relationships). Through facilitated discussion and small-group co-creation, participants will move beyond debate toward practical, principled strategies for equitable COIL design culminating in a shared position on responsible AI use and a proposed capability-equity framework for virtual mobility partnerships. Learning objectives: Distinguish between equity gaps and capability gaps in the context of virtual mobility, and articulate why conflating the two leads to flawed policy responses. Analyse specific AI applications including automated translation, adaptive learning, and AI-powered assessment through an equity lens, identifying contexts in which they expand access, contexts and consolidate advantage among betterresourced partners. Evaluate institution's positioning within virtual mobility partnerships, recognising how AI adoption creates asymmetries in learning experience, administrative burden/programme quality. Apply a capability-equity framework to audit existing virtual mobility initiatives, enabling more intentional and equitable decisions about AI tool selection, partner onboarding, and shared governance. Develop at least one concrete institutional or partnership-level action to address an identified equity or capability gap in their AI-enabled virtual mobility practice. Target audience: International office leaders, SIOs, policymakers responsible for designing/scaling virtual mobility programs, faculty, managers, learning technologists, and quality assurance staff involved in cross-border collaborative learning, practitioners, well-resourced institutions seeking to build equitable AI-enabled partnerships.

Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms higher education, institutions face a critical challenge: ensuring that meaningful human connection, intercultural understanding, and global citizenship remain at the heart of internationalisation. At the same time, student and faculty mobility across the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly affected by geopolitics, visa uncertainty, financial pressures, and sustainability concerns, exposing the limitations of strategies that rely primarily on physical mobility. This café style workshop explores how Internationalisation at Home (I@H) can expand access to human-centered global learning while preserving the core purpose of international education. Through practitioner-led presentations, participants will examine six proven models, including Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), virtual exchange, hybrid programmes, joint and dual degrees, project-based partnerships, and AI-enabled collaborative learning approaches. Each model will be illustrated through practical case studies highlighting implementation strategies, benefits, and challenges. In the second half, participants working in interdisciplinary teams will engage in a simulation exercise, ‘Build Your Global Campus.’ They will design a one-year I@H strategy navigating realistic constraints and opportunities while applying insights from the session. Participants will take a practical roadmap, new professional connections, and actionable strategies for creating inclusive global learning experiences that place humanity at the core of internationalisation in the AI age. Learning objectives: - Evaluate I@H models, including COIL, virtual exchange, hybrid programmes, joint and dual degrees, project-based partnerships, to determine their suitability within different institutional contexts across the Asia-Pacific region - Analyse how AI-enabled tools and digital collaboration platforms can expand access to global learning while supporting intercultural competencies, critical thinking and communication skills - Design a one-year I@H strategy that aligns with institutional priorities and responds to common challenges such as limited budgets, regulatory requirements, faculty engagement, and student participation - Apply human-centred approaches to internationalisation by, inclusive learning experiences, and meaningful global engagement beyond physical mobility - Develop an actionable implementation roadmap that can be adapted and championed within your institution through leadership engagement and cross-campus collaboration Target audience: Vice-Chancellors, Directors of Global Engagement, International educators, SIOs, study abroad and exchange program managers who want to increase student participation in Internationalisation, colleagues who face a paucity of physical outbound mobility, curriculum designers, and faculty invested in global partnerships.