3.2 Institution and personnel
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Has an organization for internationalization advancement in charge of macroscopic strategy; (2) Has dedicated internationalization department and staff; (3) Other departments also have internationalization staff; (4) Internationalization staff have one or more years overseas study or work experience; (5) Full-time foreign employees appointed for some internationalization positions.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Internationalization department able to make sure that employees work efficiently; (2) Internationalization staff able to provide effective services to overseas students or scholars from different countries who speak different languages; (3) Internationalization staff able to provide services online to overseas students or scholars; (4) Able to form a mechanism for unified management, allocation, training and exchange of internationalization staff in different departments.
3.3 Teachers and students
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Teachers have overseas study or work experience; (2) Foreign teachers and foreign visiting scholars; (3) Foreign students and exchange students; (4) International distance students registered online; (5) Construction of domestic and international online teaching and research community.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Able to increase the percentage of teachers with overseas study and work experience year over year; (2) Able to increase the proportion of foreign teachers and foreign visiting scholars year over year; (3) Able to increase the percentage of foreign students and exchange students year over year; (4) Able to increase the proportion of online registered international students year over year; (5) Able to increase the diversity of nationalities of students of the same major (curriculum).
3.4 Courses and teaching
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Has majors and courses taught in foreign languages; (2) Has majors and courses specially established for international students; (3) Has majors and courses themed with international issues; (4) Has Sino-foreign collaborative education programmes, such as joint majors, projects or courses, and joint academic degrees; (5) Has foreign language majors and courses.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Able to construct colleges or campuses that teach using foreign languages exclusively; (2) Able to construct international student colleges for students from different countries; (3) Able to increase Sino-foreign collaborative education programmes year over year; (4) Able to use information technology to establish and increase online international colleges year over year; (5) Able to increase foreign language majors and courses year over year.
3.5 Scientific research
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Research funds from foreign sources; (2) Investment of own research funds in international projects; (3) Full-time teachers (or researchers) conduct internationalized research activities (participation in international conferences, submissions to international journals, joint research with overseas professors, etc.); (4) Membership in all kinds of international organizations, communities, associations, academies, etc.; (5) Staff who work as editors of international academic journals or on international academic committees.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Research funds from foreign sources increase year over year; (2) Own research funds invested in international projects increase year over year; (3) All teachers participate in at least one international research activity per year; (4) Encourage and protect teachers who sign international cooperation agreements as individuals; (5) Able to participate in all kinds of international activities, exhibitions, rankings, etc., and enhance international reputation year over year; (6) Able to hold annual international distance education conferences.
3.6 Distance teaching resources
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Online teaching resources from foreign sources; (2) Teaching resources specially designed for international students; (3) Internationalized digital resource networks or databases; (4) Multi-lingual catalogues, descriptions, and content of teaching resources; (5) Institutions or mechanisms dedicated to international joint construction and sharing of educational resources.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Able to actively use or modify open educational resources (OER), public courses of prestigious universities and other overseas internet resources; (2) Able to share educational resources worldwide and enjoy high overseas click rate and download volume; (3) Able to increase market share in resources for teaching Chinese as a foreign language year over year; (4) Able to construct multi-lingual versions of high quality educational resources according to international standards.
3.7 Student support
Monitoring indexes for internationalization level include: (1) Overseas learning centres established in foreign countries; (2) Domestic learning centres designed for international students; (3) Dedicated staff for international students at regular learning centres; (4) Learning centres hire foreign staff; (5) Distance digital learning strategies to accelerate students’ learning; (6) Day-to-day living support, such as accommodations for international students and scholars.
Monitoring indexes for internationalization capacity include: (1) Able to increase overseas study centres year over year; (2) Able to increase study centres for international students year over year; (3) Able to send student support staff abroad for training; (4) Able to continuously adapt distance digital study strategies to domestic and international students; (5) Able to allocate full-time staff in charge of living support for international students and scholars.