The Institution Grand Valley State University is a comprehensive regional university located on the banks of the Grand River twelve miles west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The university was founded in 1960 as a state supported institution for higher education to serve the populace of central western Michigan, specifically Ottawa, Kent, and Muskegon Counties. Increases in enrollments over the pas...

The population of farms using automatic milking systems (AMS) has grown from the first installation a dairy farm in the Netherlands in 1992 to more than 8000 milking units on more than 2400 farms today The vast majority of these farms are in north-western Europe, with the Netherlands having the largest installed base and Scandinavia showing the fastest growth rate in the past few years (Lind, 2...

There is seemingly no end to the diffi culties that can arise in the international classroom. Stories abound about issues such as silence, students’ reticence, learner autonomy (or lack thereof), which seem to suggest an unsuccessful transfer of academic knowledge and skills across tasks, contexts and cultures. The current paper will neither offer another problem for us to ponder, nor another s...