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Sofie Holmquist; Miguel Inzunza; Mehdi Ghazinour; Bert Jonsson – Education Inquiry, 2024
Need-satisfying experiences corresponding to students' psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence lead to increased academic engagement and well-being. A lack of education-specific basic needs instruments validated in Swedish may inhibit basic needs research in Swedish-speaking student populations. Thus, the present study aimed…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Competence, College Students, Student Needs
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Ola Holmström; Ola Stjärnhagen – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
This article examines how university students assess the coordination of the courses their programmes contain and how course coordination affects how content they are with their studies. The study is based on survey data from more than 5700 students, collected through Lund University's Student Barometer. The survey examines the students' views on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Course Selection (Students), Academic Degrees
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Andrea Bohman; Maureen A. Eger; Mikael Hjerm; Jeffrey Mitchell – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
In this article, we analyse the level of and development in students' academic stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We devote particular attention to students that first entered university in 2020, 'the COVID cohort', who had fewer opportunities to integrate in ways that theoretically should mitigate the impact of pandemic-induced disruption to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Foreign Countries, College Students, Life Satisfaction
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Warfvinge, Per; Löfgreen, Jennifer; Andersson, Karim; Roxå, Torgny; Åkerman, Christina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global disruption to higher education, especially in engineering education, where many teaching and learning activities are difficult or impossible to conduct online. This study examines the changes in the students' experiences of this disruption using a 26-item process-oriented course experience questionnaire (CEQ)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
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Nilsson, Per A. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2019
Students studying abroad must adjust to a new culture and adapt to new surroundings different from home, and to other challenging life events during their sojourn in a foreign country. Previous research has shown that social life outside academic studies has a strong influence on one's academic integration. This paper describes a buddy programme,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Social Support Groups, Peer Influence, Mentors
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Nilsson, Per A. – World Journal of Education, 2015
The transition from one's home country to a university abroad can be demanding. This study is a follow-up study exploring life satisfaction among outbound students. Outbound students at Umeå University, Sweden, were surveyed before and after experiencing studying abroad. Thus, the students' life satisfaction could be compared after an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Study Abroad, College Students
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Mattsson, Janet – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Academic Discourse, Writing Improvement, Content Area Writing
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Avoseh, Mejai, Ed.; Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2020
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. These papers are from the CIAE 2020 Virtual International…
Descriptors: Adult Education, International Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Aghaee, Naghmeh; Hansson, Henrik; Tedre, Matti; Drougge, Ulrika – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2014
The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education is a way to facilitate interaction and accessing information for learning in higher education. However, finding a set of structured e-resources to facilitate learning within specific courses is still a big challenge in most higher education institutions. This includes the…
Descriptors: Theses, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing