Who stipulates that you must sit still when studying?
Take the common campus of domestic universities as an example. In recent years, domestic universities have made great efforts to build new campuses. The distance between the old campus and the new campus is not close, so it is not easy for students to attend classes and do things in different campuses. Although many schools have opened school buses, the long interval between school buses and crowded people make students feel very inconvenient.
The University of Queensland has the same problem. Universities here rarely have only one campus. Take Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as an example. It has two campuses in this city. From 7 am to 9 pm, there is a school bus between the two campuses every 15 minutes. The teacher and student certificates of this school can be taken free of charge. The school bus is managed by the government and the school only pays a little money.
For students, the convenience of the school bus greatly offsets the pain of running between the two campuses. It won't be too much trouble for students to choose courses and do things across campuses.
There is also a library where students often deal.
Different from the well-behaved tables and chairs in domestic libraries, the tables and chairs in Queensland university libraries, whether key universities or general schools, are more similar to restaurants, with a table and a chair, where students in the same group can sit together and discuss and study. The school here believes that the library is not only for students to study by themselves, but also for them to exchange ideas here. Therefore, there is also a soft sofa in a position similar to the lobby. Students can sit, lie or half lie, regardless of your posture. No one stipulates that you must sit still while thinking. It doesn't matter if students studying in the library don't bring computers. The school will provide computers with free internet access.
The ubiquitous network "counselor"
The network of domestic universities is generally developed. Many China students studying in Australia find that the equally developed overseas campus network has a special purpose.
Xie is a student at Griffith University. Before that, she studied English in a domestic university. When she first arrived here, like many freshmen, she felt particularly helpless in a strange environment: foreign universities are not like domestic universities, and there is a counselor in the class. You can ask a counselor if you have any questions. Who do you turn to when you encounter problems abroad?
Soon she found that although there were no counselors, the school had a huge invisible network support system, which made "counselors" everywhere.
One of the systems is called "askus", which can answer questions about work, study and life.
A nursing student was swallowed by the landlord 100 deposit. This classmate went to the school to ask how to solve this problem, and was told to let the landlord show the relevant license. The next day, this classmate called the landlord. When the landlord heard this question, he immediately ran away and became a "filing" person.
For foreign students, Griffith University also has special English help. Non-native English speakers can seek all kinds of help through this system, such as asking for help with their homework.
Zhu Bingjian is an exchange student who cooperates with domestic universities in Sunshine University Town. In such a newly-built school, Zhu Bingjian found it easy and not easy to find teachers in foreign universities. In China, as long as the teacher is in the office and has time, you can open the door to find the teacher, but the common situation is that the teacher is usually very busy.
But abroad, it is a completely different situation. If you want to find a teacher, you should first find the receptionist in the office. You can appoint your own teacher or ask the other person to make an appointment for you. The office staff will make an appointment for you on weekends and weekdays. No matter how busy the teacher is, he will take time out to meet the students as soon as possible and give detailed guidance.
However, the "postal morality" of foreign university teachers is generally good. As long as students send emails, they will get a reply soon.
Another interesting phenomenon is that foreign universities have many "self-help" projects. For example, copying, domestic students are used to going to copy shops. Copying machines are available abroad. As long as you enter your student number, you can copy it yourself.
Collective learning replaced self-study.
Many China students are studying in Australia. What impressed them most was that they were used to self-study at home. When they were abroad, a common homework was done in group discussion and collective study.
Xie's homework at Griffith University is basically done in groups. Team members should rate each other. There are large and small classrooms in the school to adapt to group discussions of different sizes. In addition, each class has recording, audio and PPT, and students who can't come can enjoy the learning content online.
Zhu Bingjian said that it took four years to write papers in domestic universities, but he came here for one semester and wrote five papers. No matter which paper she writes, she doesn't finish it alone, but in a group way.
Different from domestic universities, the usual homework here should also be online. In Xie's school, all the homework is submitted online. The school has a special system to point out problems in homework. The teacher is very strict with homework, and no mistakes are allowed in name, time and format. Not to mention the common plagiarism in China, there is naturally a system to review whether academics are standardized.
Foreign teachers' awareness of intellectual property protection has also opened the eyes of many China students. An international student said that once in class, the teacher made a model for everyone, and some students from China immediately took out their mobile phones to take pictures. The teacher asked them to delete the pictures from their mobile phones. Books abroad are very expensive, one 100 yuan, old books are sold at half price, and some are sold in 50 yuan, but you can copy them in 20 yuan. China students copied textbooks to save money, but when he asked questions with the copied textbooks, the teacher refused to answer.