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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This paper explores faculty's perspectives and use of open educational resources (OER) and their repositories across different countries by conducting a multiple case study to find similarities and differences between academics' awareness, perceptions and use of OER, as well as examining related aspects of institutional policy and quality that may…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Open Educational Resources, Knowledge Level, College Faculty
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Muthama, Evelyn; McKenna, Sioux – Education as Change, 2020
Universities have used an array of incentives to increase academic publications, which are highly rewarded in the South African higher education funding formula. While all universities use indirect incentives, such as linking promotion and probation to publication, the mechanisms used in some institutions have taken a very direct form, whereby…
Descriptors: Incentives, Faculty Publishing, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Mthombeni, Zama Mabel; Ogunnubi, Olusola – Cogent Education, 2021
Any language policy has crucial social implications that impact its successful implementation. The introduction of the bilingual language policy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has spurred polemical debate and discussions especially regarding the value of African languages for teaching and learning. This article offers a…
Descriptors: School Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Higher Education
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Christine Slade; Guy J. Curtis; Sheona Thomson – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
In the past decade, extra-institutional file-sharing and homework-help websites have gone from being small-scale operations to large corporate businesses. File-sharing and homework-help websites threaten academic integrity when students use assessment work sourced from these sites as if it were their own. However, little is known about how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Shared Resources and Services, Homework
Ravi Lakshmikanthan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the evolving landscape of international higher education partnerships, with a specific focus on the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). These countries, representing a significant portion of the world's population and economy, are redefining collaborative models in higher education, particularly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Partnerships in Education
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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Open Education Studies, 2022
Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education cannot be put into practice without considering institutional contexts, which differ not only globally but also within the same country. Each institutional context provides educators with opportunities or limitations where Open Educational Practices (OEP) and OER for teaching and learning are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Hashim, Haswira Nor Mohamad; Khair, Muhamad Helmi Muhamad; Mahmood, Anida; Zakuan, Zeti Zuryani Mohd – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The objective of the research is to explore the aim, application and strategy perceived as important in the development of an outbound open innovation policy for exploitation of intellectual creation, design and creativity in Malaysian public universities (MPUs). Under existing intellectual property, innovation and commercialization policies, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Design, Public Colleges
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Mphahlele, Amanda; McKenna, Sioux – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Plagiarism needs to be addressed to maintain academic standards and to safeguard the integrity of the academic project. With the evolving digital world, conventional methods of addressing plagiarism are gradually being dismissed in favour of new technologies. Unfortunately, there is a general misunderstanding about what such technologies do. This…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Misconceptions, Higher Education, Public Colleges
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Antia, Bassey E.; van der Merwe, Chanel – Language Policy, 2019
As part of a broader student campaign for 'free decolonized education', protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, and revealed what is possibly an internal contradiction of the campaign. The discourse prior to the protests (e.g.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Universities, School Policy
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Odendaal, Albi; Frick, Liezel – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The dissemination of doctoral research is a crucial ethical, financial and status issue for universities worldwide. The publication based thesis (PBT) may encourage dissemination, but is still in definitional flux at many institutions, particularly in South Africa, especially regarding how many articles are required and the publication status of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Student Research
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Snowball, Jen D.; Shackleton, Charlie M. – Research Evaluation, 2018
Research is increasingly regarded a core facet of university endeavours globally, and research profiles of universities, institutes, and colleges are commonly used as one measure for ranking them. University administrations and funders would be better able to stimulate research if they had insights into context-specific, institutional constraints,…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Online Surveys, Foreign Countries, Reputation
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Nwokedi, Peace Ginika; Khanare, Fumane Portia M. K. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2020
This study uses the agentic capability theory of Albert Bandura (Bandura 2009; 2012) as its lens to explore international students' experiences in a South African higher educational institution. The agentic capability theory "adopts an agentic perspective toward human development, adaptation, and change" (Bandura 2006:164). This implies…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Educational Experience, Educational Environment
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Bhagwan, R. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
Although discourse related to the salience of community engagement in higher education has proliferated, little has focussed on the process of institutionalisation of community engagement, in South Africa. This paper presents findings from a national study, which focussed on how community engagement can be institutionalised within higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Community Involvement
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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Tshilongo, Tshanduko; Rothmann, Jacques – Transformation in Higher Education, 2019
Background: The role of safe spaces on university campuses for gay and lesbian students remains a contested issue. This is attributed to the fact that the visibility of these students on university campuses presents a duality: On the one hand, the creation of such spaces provides a sense of communal belonging, safety and visibility for these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, LGBTQ People, Educational Environment
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