Modern Education and Social Dynamics: Internationalisation, Technology, and Community Development

Supaphorn Akkapin

Authors

Supaphorn Akkapin Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0114-8220

Keywords:

internationalization, artificial intelligence, learning management systems, cross-cultural adaptation, ageing society, Thailand

Abstract

Thailand has become one of Southeast Asia's more consequential meeting points between global higher education and local social change. This editorial introduces Volume 2, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Social Sciences and Business Research, and reads its contributions through a single organising idea: that contemporary education and social dynamics are best understood together rather than apart. Three pillars structure the argument — the internationalisation of higher education and the cross-cultural experience it produces, the integration of digital and artificial-intelligence technologies into teaching and administration, and the evolving social and consumer dynamics of an ageing, digitally connected society. Each pillar is represented by empirical work in this issue, and each converges on Thailand as an educational hub. Taken together, the studies suggest that internationalisation, technology, and community development are not parallel trends but mutually conditioning forces, and that the most pressing questions for educators and policymakers concern the connections between them rather than any one in isolation.

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