Measuring Taiwan's higher education internationalization

全球化的到來，象徵正式進入國際化的時代，同時也引爆東西方各學術界的許多辯論。台灣也搭上了全球化發展的列車，著手在教育結構和政策上進行轉型。有鑒於此，本研究首先將會討論台灣高等教育國際化的背後因素，試著從國際與當地觀點來討論國際化，並且了解台灣高等教育國際化之目標與所採用的策略。本研究採用了混合方法的研究架構，採用了個人和焦點團體訪談的方式，訪談了國外國際化專家、國內的外國教師與學生、國內大學國際單位的工作者……等。同時也使用了紙本與網路問卷調查來強化研究上的數據訊息。分析結果後並提出一種國際化評估系統，來衡量台灣高等教育的國際化。期望研究發現將可以當作當代東南亞國家的高等教育國際化在該國家的一個衡量指標。The advent of globalization has ushered in the era of internationalization. Much debate on such processes has occurred in academe both in the East and the West. Taiwan has kept pace with these developments by ensuring that measures and changes in both structure and policy are being implemented at all levels. This research attempts to discuss the factors behind the internationalization of Taiwan’s higher education. Discussions on global views, local contextual perspectives and concepts on internationalization, and strategies and rationales behind Taiwan’s internationalization are included. Interviews were conducted with local internationalization officers, internationalization scholars and experts, and international students in Taiwan. Results were then analyzed together with the changing trends and issues on the importance of internationalization, which led to the quest for a set of performance indicators. An analysis of previous assessment practices and mechanisms from both foreign and local sources was completed, which culminated in the proposal of a set of performance indicators to measure internationalization in Taiwan’s higher education institutions. An actual assessment of Taiwan’s HEIs internationalization using the proposed indicators was then accomplished. Findings shall serve as a point of reference for contemporary visions of the internationalization of an East Asian higher education exemplar in the age of globalization