Regina Brautlacht
Regina C. Brautlacht is appointed Commissioner for Global Digital Learning and Senior Lecturer in Business Communication and Entrepreneurship at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany. She leads three virtual mobility projects (DIF, IVAC-BAIN, and Virtual Mobility for All). She is a member of the Commission for Teaching and Learning, the Commission for Quality Assurance in Teaching and the Commission for International Affairs. She has initiated the network for digital internationalization in NRW and is Deputy Director of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange (CoVE). She has served as an expert in digital learning and virtual exchanges on different panels. He holds a Master's in Media Education from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Hochschule Bonn-Rhein Sieg (H-BRS) has redesigned its strategic internationalization strategy by expanding its traditional mobility programs and incorporating virtual and hybrid mobility schemes since 2018. Its mission is to provide virtual mobility for all. All students should have an international virtual experience while studying at H-BRS. It has initiated a campus-wide DIF project to coordinate all activities in each department.
Virtual exchanges are not only beneficial for students but can also enhance educators’ digital competences. The European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (2017) has been applied to a virtual exchange project on sustainability to show how higher education (HE) teachers from two different continents have been able to improve their digital competence level while contributing to the internationalization of their HE institutions.