Environmental design and transnational education in Egypt

الملخص EN

Transnational education typically uses a combination of face-to-face instruction delivered by local teaching staff and teaching materials produced in the offering institution’s home country.

the paper is designed to respond to the question of whether this kind of education fits the environmental design learning, considering that the design of transnational courses needs to be culturally responsive and tailored to the learning styles and social context of students in a foreign locale.

it also answers the question of, what is the benefits of the transnational education in Egypt as a developing country seeking the adoption of international quality? features of transnational education and its importance to the Egyptian higher education system as a developing country seeking for progress and growth in various field were explains, especially the higher education, and what is preventing the spread of this type of education in our country, even though we are in need most.

also the-already existed- professional practices in higher education and transmission of knowledge, like “scholarship” experiences in the field of environmental design, as a broad category of work that demonstrates great learning in our country are critically reviewed.

the paper has also investigated environmental design concepts in order to measure the possibility of being customized into transnational way of education.

there fore, the objectives of the present study included; developing the higher education system in Egypt according to the available possibilities, searching the successful experiences in transnational education across the world, and finding new alternatives to the environmental design learning in Egypt .

the major results of the present study has been; there is a great possibility of introducing transnational education in post graduate stages dealing with environmental design as a research subject.

this is an area where direct contact with the global scientific expertise in the fields of design may exist.