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Kudzayi Savious Tarisayi – Cogent Education, 2024
As artificial intelligence proliferates, so do associated hopes and fears. This study explores such tensions within South African higher education following ChatGPT's launch, analyzing perceived threats alongside opportunities for responsibly harnessing benefits. Adopting a socio-technical framework recognizing technology's interdependence with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education
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Skakni, I.; Maggiori, C.; Masdonati, J.; Akkermans, J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This study examines the extent to which career competencies (knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to manage one's own work and learning experiences to achieve the desired career progression) are prevalent amongst early career researchers (ECRs). We adapted the Career Competencies Questionnaire [Akkermans, J., Brenninkmeijer, V., Huibers, H.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Competence, Job Skills
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Kunene, Maureen Fikile; Barnes, Neil – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Advances in technology are classified as one of the external factors that trigger organisational change, even for Higher Education Institutions. The transition to e-learning presents new challenges as expectations and roles of employees and students evolve. The primary objective of this study was to investigate employee perceptions of the Open…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change
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Reinhard, Karin; Pogrzeba, Anna; Townsend, Rosemary; Pop, Carver Albertus – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University was the first higher education institution in Germany to combine on-the-job training and academic studies. The study model integrates theory and practice, both being components of cooperative education. The success of this university is based on its cooperation with over 10,000 companies.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cooperative Education, On the Job Training
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Schulze, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The aim of the research was to critically analyse how a university context influences the quality of academics' research output. Wenger's social theory of learning was used as theoretical framework. The investigation involved an ethnographic case study of the research culture at one college at the institution. Data collection was mainly by means…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Participant Observation, Incentives, Job Security
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Mahomed, F. E.; Naude, J. L. P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
The aim of this study was to determine the occupational stressors and strains for support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province, and to assess the differences between the stressors and strains of different biographical groups. A cross-sectional survey design (N = 315) was used. The ASSET and a biographical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Stress Variables, Work Environment