Project-based Learning Case of Master Students in Russian North

摘要

The article studies a case of project-based learning in Northern Arctic Federal University, Russia. A group of master students studying Chinese was given a task to develop a topical research project in the field of higher education that would be useful for their professional development. The students choice of the project area was internationalization, namely students academic mobility. The interest was determined by increasing mutual interest of Russia and China in interaction in economic, political and cultural fields. The main aim of the project was to establish contacts with Chinese universities in order to organize programmes of academic mobility for students. The participants studied the educational system of China and selected thirty universities which they wanted to build relationships with. More than fifty letters of academic correspondence were written in the course of project work. The outcomes of students collaboration have been analysed by the project supervisors in this paper.