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Stack, Gary D.; Wallace, James – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The Irish institute of technology sector is undergoing a major restructuring that will culminate in mergers, to form technological universities (TU). It is essential that the perspective of key stakeholders is fully considered throughout this process, in order to facilitate a successful transition. This research investigates the factors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Technical Institutes, Universities
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Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo; Luu, Diep H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
The adoption of US accreditation by non-US universities is one of the most salient manifestations of the internationalization of quality assurance in higher education. This process has been conceptualized as an exercise of global position taking by which institutions with limited financial and symbolic resources become associated with more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Implementation
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Scott, Karen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Little longitudinal research has examined change in university teachers' elearning beliefs and practices after their initial experience with elearning. This study addresses this gap by focusing on six teachers who developed and implemented an elearning resource, and the changes they made to the resource and its implementation over two years. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Sin, Cristina – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Student-centred learning has gradually come to the foreground of the Bologna Process. In parallel, learning outcomes have been advocated as key degree descriptors, illustrative of student-centred approaches. This paper examines learning outcomes in their diverse understandings and enactment in three European countries--England, Portugal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Policy Formation
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Buss, Ray R.; Zambo, Ron; Zambo, Debby; Perry, Jill A.; Williams, Tiffany R. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Limitations of the education doctorate (EdD) and the emergence of professional practice doctorates have influenced those offering the EdD to re-envision, re-define, and reclaim the EdD as the degree of choice for the next generation of educational leaders. Colleges of education faculty members have used the Carnegie Project on the Education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Doctoral Programs, Schools of Education
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Hunt, Clive – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Among the many external forces that have impacted upon institutions, league tables have been the dynamic to which universities across the world are now responding. Following the appointment of a new vice-chancellor at one post-92 UK university, a modernisation project was introduced aimed at maximising the institutions' research standing. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Strategic Planning