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Tim M. Stevens; Indira N. Z. Day; Perry J. den Brok; Frans J. Prins; Hanneke J. H. E. Assen; Marlies ter Beek; Gunter Bombaerts; Remco Coppoolse; Petra H. M. Cremers; Rik Engbers; Madeleine Hulsen; Rachelle J. A. Kamp; Jur J. Koksma; Kariene Mittendorff; Jan Riezebos; Roeland M. van der Rijst; Margje W. J. van de Wiel; Jan D. Vermunt – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Higher education (HE) is engaged in a variety of educational innovations, as well as professional development initiatives (PDIs) to support teachers in attaining the required expertise. To improve teacher professional learning and development (PLD) and innovation processes, it is important to understand whether, how and why different PLD practices…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Expertise
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Melissa Cain; Chris Campbell; Melissa Fanshawe – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This article conceptualises how disruptions to conventional teaching models may lead to innovative practice. We have identified a gap in current knowledge around how innovations in higher education teaching and learning are initiated in times of crises. Disruptive Innovation Theory and Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Theory are used as lenses to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Max Kusters; Arjen De Vetten; Wilfried Admiraal; Roeland Van der Rijst – Frontline Learning Research, 2024
Lecturers who are actively engaged in shaping their teaching and teaching practices demonstrate agency. Teacher agency has increasingly been described as a key factor in educational development at universities. Lecturers are expected to innovatively develop courses and continuously improve their teaching practices to respond to, for example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Faculty, Lecture Method
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Hambrock, Helga; de Villiers, Frelét – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2023
Since seamless learning (SL) is still a rather unknown concept in higher education many educators classify it under the same categories as mobile, blended, online or hybrid learning. The purpose of this study is firstly to clarify the historical evolvement of the seamless learning concept over the past decades and, to position the seamless…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Kitty Meijer; Liesbeth Baartman; Marjan Vermeulen; Elly de Bruijn – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Teachers' assessment literacy affects the quality of assessments and is, therefore, an essential part of teachers' competence. Recent studies define assessment literacy as a dynamic, contextual and social construct, situated in practice and mediated by teachers' identity and conceptions of assessment. This study provides a further elaboration of…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Decision Making
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Kallenberg, Ton – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Changes, improvements and innovations in university organisations regularly end up in sluggish processes and get stuck 'somewhere' in the organisation. It is argued that cooperation and mutual influencing of work processes between academic and professional employees of different departments can have a positive effect on these innovations. Because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, School Personnel, College Faculty
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de Jong, M.; Munnik, M. E.; Will, N. U. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Opportunities for academic libraries to enrich their products and services through facilitating open education (OE) in higher education are presented in an overview of good practices. A case study of open textbook publishing was performed at TU Delft to study how these products and services could stimulate educators to adopt OE. A simplified user…
Descriptors: Universities, Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Publishing Industry
Saenen, Bregt; Hatch, Anna; Curry, Stephen; Proudman, Vanessa; Lakoduk, Ashley – European University Association, 2021
This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Educational Policy
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Ovbiagbonhia, A. R.; Kollöffel, Bas; Den Brok, Perry – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
In this study we investigated teachers' beliefs about innovation competence relevance and their creative self-efficacy and compared teachers' and students' perceptions of the learning environment in the Built Environment engineering education domain. In total, 94 teachers participated in this study by completing a questionnaire. Teachers perceived…
Descriptors: Innovation, Competency Based Education, Engineering Education, College Students
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Otto, Inge; De Kruif, Chris – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
So far, few articles about innovations in Dutch or American honors programs appear to link their findings to an existing body of research about innovations in higher education in general. Although scholars are starting to make this connection more and more (see Kallenberg; NRO, "Excellentie" and "EXChange"; NWO,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation, Honors Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Waaijer, Cathelijn J. F. – Research Evaluation, 2018
Human capital is indispensable for regional innovation and economic growth, and PhD graduates (PhDs) play an important role in these processes. This is the first study describing the geographic origin and current work location of PhDs from Dutch universities, which are located in a densely populated area with a high concentration of basic science…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Geographic Regions
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Hasanefendic, Sandra; Birkholz, Julie M.; Horta, Hugo; van der Sijde, Peter – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This article addresses academics who innovate in higher education and their characteristics. We undertake a qualitative case study of six individuals who implemented disruptive and transformative pedagogical approaches and curricular practices in their departments and/or at their institutions. Our findings point to six common…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Griffioen, Didi M. E.; de Jong, Uulkje – Higher Education Policy, 2013
In the context of a European knowledge economy, the Dutch non-university institutions systematically develop research activities at a higher frequency than before. With this development, they have been accused of academic drift, of striving to receive a status comparable to traditional universities. This study considers the perceptions of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes
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Kotake, Masako – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
The growing importance of internationalization and the global dominance of English in higher education mean pressures on expanding English-taught degree programs (ETDPs) in non-English-speaking countries. Strategic considerations are necessary to successfully integrate ETDPs into existing programs and to optimize the effects of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Griffioen, Didi M. E.; de Jong, Uulkje – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Higher professional education in Europe has changed from teaching-only institutes to hybrids of teaching and research. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence the judgements of lecturers about new organisational goals and perceptions of their new research-related competencies. Lecturers' judgements of new organisational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Education, College Faculty
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