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Oddfrid Førland; Torgny Roxå – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Higher education institutions are struggling to elevate the value and status of academic teaching. In this endeavour, rewards for excellence in teaching are becoming a common measure. This study reports on the experience of the first academic teachers who were given the status as rewarded teachers in new reward systems. We explore rewarded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Awards, Professional Recognition
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Gribble, Lynn; Beckmann, Elizabeth A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
University educators are encouraged to be innovative in their teaching practice, and are often recognised and rewarded for these innovations. However, the effective dissemination and consequent adoption of such innovations is still relatively ineffective, despite the development of diverse dissemination frameworks and strategies. The literature…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Reflective Teaching
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Baars, S.; Schellings, G. L. M.; Joore, J. P.; van Wesemael, P. J. V. – Learning Environments Research, 2023
Research into the relationship between innovative physical learning environments (PLEs) and innovative psychosocial learning environments (PSLEs) indicates that it must be understood as a network of relationships between multiple psychosocial and physical aspects. Actors shape this network by attaching meanings to these aspects and their…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Instructional Innovation, Student Experience
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Taylan Budur; Halil Demirer; Chnar Abdullah Rashid – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Current article aims to investigate the positive link between knowledge sharing (KS), innovative culture (IC), quality of work life (QWL) and innovative behaviours (IB) at higher education institutions in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Design/methodology/approach: The study's data was gathered from academic staff at various universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Educational Innovation, School Culture
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Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley; Aaron W. Voyles – Texas Education Review, 2024
A 1998 report from the Boyer Commission called "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities" issued a series of directives, suggestions, and critiques concerning the then-current state of undergraduate education at research universities. The document caused a minor media firestorm in the higher…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Research Universities, Educational History, Neoliberalism
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Nur Kholifah; Muhammad Nurtanto; Gulzhaina K. Kassymova; Hani Subakti; Mustofa Abi Hamid – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This study investigates the innovative work behavior (IWB) of marine lecturers, considering work motivation (WM), organizational culture (OC), and soft skill competence (SSC). Data from 145 respondents representing ten higher education polytechnics in Indonesia were analyzed using partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marine Education, College Faculty, Soft Skills
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Sandra Baroudi; Areej ElSayary – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on innovation research, particularly in the manufacturing and information technology sectors in the US and Europe. However, the disruptions caused by the recent pandemic called for more innovations, especially in the education industry. Innovation is viewed as an outcome of a set of various drivers.…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty
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John Roth; Rachel Cooke; William W. Reynolds – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Adjunct faculty at colleges and universities in the U.S. are quickly outnumbering full-time faculty. This new faculty majority often struggles with low pay and sub-par working conditions. Recognizing this issue has a number of negative impacts for higher education, researchers at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Salary Wage Differentials
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Faridah Ab Wahab; Anusuiya Subramaniam; Jo Ann Ho; Anuar Shah Bali Mahomed – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to address a gap in research by examining the relationship between leadership styles, innovative work behavior, and innovative performance among academic staff at public universities. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the extent to which inclusive and ambidextrous leadership styles can facilitate innovative performance,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Teacher Competencies, College Faculty, Innovation
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Chuang Xu; Wenting Gong – SAGE Open, 2024
Bootleg innovation is a common phenomenon in Chinese universities. However, little is known about its influencing factors and mechanisms. Based on the trait activation theory, the current study proposes and tests a moderated mediation model by conducting an online survey of 1,038 university teachers at four undergraduate universities using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Instructional Innovation, Individualism
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McAvoy, John P., Jr.; Freeman, Sydney, Jr.; Carr-Chellman, Ali; Kitchel, Allen – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
The first year of faculty members' time at an institution of higher education is spent learning their role and institutional culture. Quite often new faculty members need more support, guidance, and mentoring than they receive. But how can we help new faculty to create new energy (act negentropically) toward the institutional advancement? This…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Expectation, Teaching Experience
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Noat Chanprasert; Prayuth Chusorn; Chalard Chantarasombat – World Journal of Education, 2023
Innovative leadership development can assist administrators of private vocational colleges in identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities within the educational administration network by fostering creative thinking and openness to new ideas. Such administrators can discover novel approaches to efficiently and effectively address the needs of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Private Colleges, Vocational Education, Leadership Training
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Leslie D. Gonzales; Naseeb K. Bhangal; Chastity Stokes; Jesenia Rosales – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Faculty members are entrusted with great power to decide who deserves space within the academic profession. Given that the profession's central mission is knowledge production, such decisions inevitably concern epistemic matters, and specifically, what constitutes legitimate knowledge. From this perspective, faculty hiring is not only a matter of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Selection, Decision Making, Epistemology
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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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