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Jaquett, Caroline M.; VanMaaren, Victoria G.; Williams, Robert L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
We surveyed students (N = 152) in several sections of an undergraduate educational psychology course to determine what course factors would most motivate them to submit course evaluations. The survey directed students to choose among several pairs of course characteristics as to their relative impact on their decision to submit a course…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Course Evaluation
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Diachok, Nadiia; Chernukha, Nadiia; Tokaruk, Liudmyla; Udovenko, Iuliia; Petrova, Mariana Mateeva – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The article considers the essence of the process of practice-oriented concept as a principle of the professional training quality of the future specialists. Socialization is singled out and considered through the interdisciplinary concept in professional education. Socialization is defined as a successful component of the future specialists'…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Comparative Analysis, Socialization, Educational Quality
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Jafari, Esmaeil; Vajarah, Kourosh Fathi; Arefi, Mahboobeh; Rezaeizadeh, Morteza – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to validate MOOC-based curriculum in higher education in Iran. The research method is mixed and of exploratory type. Method of grounded theory is used in the qualitative section and the Validation Test Pattern among the faculties and PhD students of Tehran's Universities is considered in the quantitative part. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
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Verbic, Gregor; Keerthisinghe, Chanaka; Chapman, Archie C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Engineering education is undergoing a restructuring driven by the needs of an increasingly multidisciplinary engineering profession. At the same time, power systems are transitioning toward future smart grids that will require power engineers with skills outside of the core power engineering domain. Since including new topics in the existing…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Sy, Jobila Williams – NACADA Journal, 2017
Although international research regarding advising is burgeoning, most of the research on the role of and advantages related to academic advising has been limited to U.S. colleges and universities. This ethnographic case study conducted at a Liberian university examined the organizational culture of advising from student, faculty, and staff…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Advising, Ethnography, Case Studies
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Pavlin, Samo – European Journal of Education, 2019
The "employability" paradigm is beginning to be publicly regarded as one of the key developmental paths and "modernisation" principles of higher education institutions. In this context, the article first overviews the existing practices for tracking graduates' early careers in Europe. Next, it identifies and discusses relevant…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Higher Education, Careers
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Salman, Doaa; Soliman, Cherine – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The introduction of technology in education has been a strategic objective at both the governmental and educational institutional levels long before COVID-19. However, the acceleration to e-learning caused by the pandemic disrupted the traditional classroom environment overnight forcing the entire sector at all levels, school,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Campbell, Colin; Horowitz, Jonathan – Sociology of Education, 2016
Past research shows a statistically significant relationship between college completion and sociopolitical attitudes. However, recent scholarship suggests the effects of college on social outcomes may be confounded with unobserved family background. In this study, we leverage the shared family and social background of siblings to better identify…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Influences, College Students
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Mahmood, Hajara; Burke, Monica Galloway – Journal of International Students, 2018
This quantitative descriptive study analyzed levels of acculturative stress and sociocultural adaptation among international students at a non-metropolitan university in the United States related to certain demographic characteristics. Surveys were used to measure international students' levels of acculturative stress and sociocultural adaptation,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anxiety, Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Students
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Redstone, Ana E.; Stefaniak, Jill E.; Luo, Tian – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2018
This systematic review provides a summary of studies on teaching, social, and cognitive presences in the community of inquiry (CoI) model using the CoI instrument in a higher education setting since its development in 2008 by Arbaugh et al. A total of 24 peer-reviewed studies on the CoI instrument from 2008-2017 were selected and analyzed explore…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Educational Research
Polese, Abel; Stepurko, Tetiana; Oksamytna, Svitlana; Kerikmae, Tanel; Chochia, Archil; Levenets, Olena – Middle Grades Review, 2018
In post-socialist spaces, informal payments in educational institutions have often been at the centre of anti-corruption campaigns. A direct consequence, so far, has been that reforms in the public sector have largely been based on attempts to eradicate, or at least minimize, the phenomenon of informal payments. Ukraine is no exception. According…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Foreign Countries, Crime
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Brierley, Gary; Li, Xilai; Qiao, Youming; Huang, He Qing; Wang, Zhaoyin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
This situated case study outlines how a place-based landscape template provided an integrative platform for the environmental arm of a cross-disciplinary international education initiative, the Three Brothers Project, wherein geographers at the University of Auckland worked alongside engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing to support…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Case Studies, International Cooperation
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Elwick, Alex; Cannizzaro, Sara – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
This paper investigates the higher education literature surrounding happiness and related notions: satisfaction, despair, flourishing and well-being. It finds that there is a real dearth of literature relating to profound happiness in higher education: much of the literature using the terms happiness and satisfaction interchangeably as if one were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Psychological Patterns
Brennan, Marie; Chapman, Amy; Zipin, Lew; Rudolph, Sophie; Barron, Rosie; Rogers, Bev; Woods, Annette – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2020
The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), as the peak professional body for education researchers in Australia, has strong interest in supporting high quality research and research capacity in the field of education in the Australian higher education sector. In this report, the 'Protecting and extending research in education in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Professional Associations, Educational Researchers
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Nair, Chenicheri Sid; Li, Jinrui; Cai, Li Kun – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to explore academics' perspectives on the quality of appraisal evidence at a Chinese university. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey with both closed items and open-ended questions was distributed among all academics at the university (n = 1,538). A total of 512 responded to the questionnaire. The closed items…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Universities, Online Surveys
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