Construct

Sub-dimensions

Indicators

Description

Authors

Internationalization at Home

Personal

Interaction with students/ professors/staff

Contacts students maintain with international professors and colleagues

Middlehurst (2013) ; Zhang et al. (2016) ; Watkins & Smith (2018) ; Smaoui (2021)

Institutional

Internationalization of curriculum

Content inside the structure of an international course

Stein, 2021 ; De Wit (2020) ; Watkins & Smith (2018)

Innovative pedagogic approaches

Teaching and its tools, including innovative didactic technologies

Simm & Marvell (2017) ; Kenna, (2017) ; Mittelmeier et al. (2021) ; Rauer et al. (2021) ; Jiang (2022) ; Xu (2019)

Experience Abroad

Academic Experience

Academic learning acquired in a foreign environment

Loynes & Gurholt (2017) ; Aguiar Pereira et al. (2017) ; Gu (2009)

Personal Experience

Personal challenges to be faced when studying abroad or traveling for any other reason

Grabowski et al. (2017) ; Inkson & Myers (2003) ; Stone & Petrick (2013) ; Blackburn & Wise (2013)

Global Skills

Critical Thinking

Ability to think in an independent and critical way

Bourn (2014) ; Kenna (2017) ; Lehtomäki et al. (2016)

Cross Cultural Competence

Ability to face with a diverse cultural environment

Johnson et al. (2006) ; White & Griffith (1998)

Think Globally

To deal with the business diversity in a globalized and interdependent world

Bourn (2014) ; Klein et al. (2014) ; McCormick & Stephen (2016)

Challenge Established Knowledge

Faculty to confront traditional beliefs and accepted assumptions

Clifford & Montgomery (2014)

Global Mindset

Global Perspective

Perspective consciousness, cross-cultural awareness, global dynamics, awareness of human choices

Hanvey (1976) ; Klein et al. (2014)

Global Connectedness

Blurring disciplinary boundaries, subject contents and local contexts

Bourn (2014) ; Lehtomäki et al. (2016)

Global Citizenship

Capacity to criticize one’s tradition, think as a citizen of the world, see the world with the other’s eyes

Nussbaum (2002) ; Clifford & Montgomery (2014)

Global Dimension

Global citizenship, sustainable development, social justice, diversity, values and perceptions, conflict resolution, human rights

Bourn (2014)

World-Mindedness

How someone sees her/himself and their relation to the world

Béneker et al. (2013)