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Mahdiuon, Rouhollah; Masoumi, Davoud; Farasatkhah, Maghsoud – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The article aims to explore the attributes of quality and quality improvement including the process and specific actions associated with these attributes--that contribute enhancing quality in Iranian Virtual Higher Education (VHE) institutions. A total of 16 interviews were conducted with experts and key actors in Iranian virtual higher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Virtual Universities
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Matsuo, Makoto – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: Although the relationship between leadership behaviors and team reflexivity has been investigated in prior research, little is known about the dimensions of reflective leadership or leadership behaviors that facilitate reflection in a group or organization. This paper aims to examine the interrelated characteristics of reflective…
Descriptors: Reflection, Leadership Styles, Teamwork, Surveys
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Opazo, Hector; Aramburuzabala, Pilar; Cerrillo, Rosario – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
As the prevalence of service-learning (S-L) within higher education institutions grows across the globe, it makes sense to explore, describe and discuss the recent situation in Spain. As a relatively new pedagogy, S-L has gained prominence in Spanish higher education since its emergence in the early 2000s, and it is increasingly used. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Higher Education, Educational Strategies
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Martins, Jorge Tiago; Baptista Nunes, Miguel – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how academics enact trust in e-learning through an inductive identification of perceived risks and enablers involved in e-learning adoption, in the context of higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: Grounded Theory was the methodology used to systematically analyse data collected in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Electronic Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Higher Education
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Martins, Jorge; Nunes, Miguel Baptista – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an exploratory study that investigates Portuguese academics' conceptions concerning the temporal properties of e-learning, in the context of traditional Higher Education Institutions. Design/methodology/approach: Grounded Theory methodology was used to systematically analyse data…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Coding, Grounded Theory
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Petri, Alexis – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2015
As a central construct in the theory of service-learning, reciprocity for community partners is not often the subject of scholarship, especially scholarship that seeks to understand the benefits and opportunity costs of service-learning. This article explores how reciprocity works in higher education service-learning from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community Organizations, School Community Programs, Private Colleges
Pertuz, Sofia Bautista – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student Affairs serves as a viable career option for professionals working in higher education, including Latinas, who have increasingly entered as undergraduate students and found careers in student affairs. Latinas seem to be bottlenecked at midlevel, with few advancing to senior level leadership positions. According to the literature, negative…
Descriptors: Work Experience, Occupational Aspiration, Hispanic Americans, Middle Management
Chandler, Sean Falcon – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative study examined the role of Native Lifeways in tribal colleges as perceived by their presidents and other influential leaders on the campuses of three tribal colleges. Tribal colleges were founded in part to support and promote Native Lifeways, as demonstrated within their respective mission statements. Given the fact that TCUs are…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Grounded Theory, Tribally Controlled Education, Qualitative Research
Yee-King, Matthew; Krivenski, Maria; Brenton, Harry; Grimalt-Reynes, Andreu; d'Inverno, Mark – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
We report on our development of an educational social machine based on the concept that feedback in communities is an effective means to support the development of communities of learning and practice. Key challenges faced by this work are how best to support educational and social interactions, how to deliver personalised tuition, and how to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Communities of Practice, Case Studies, Music Education
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Garvey, Jason C.; Drezner, Noah D. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
Using a constructivist case-study analysis, we explore philanthropy toward higher education among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) alumni, examining the role of advancement staff and alumni advocates in engaging LGBTQ alumni to promote individual and community uplift. Data come from focus groups with 37 advancement staff and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
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Kemp, Andrew T.; Preston, John; Page, C. Steven; Harper, Rebecca; Dillard, Benita; Flynn, Joseph; Yamaguchi, Misato – Qualitative Report, 2014
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Teacher Attitudes
Saraswathiamma, Manjusha Thekkedathu – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is a mixed-method study conducted using qualitative grounded theory and quantitative survey and correlation approaches. This study aims to explore the motivation and adaptability of females in the engineering profession and to develop a theoretical framework for both motivation and adaptability issues. As a result, this study…
Descriptors: Engineering, Females, Profiles, Labor Supply
Villegas, Malia Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With this thesis, I present a case study of the effort to graduate 500 "Maori" doctorates in five years in New Zealand in order to advance our understanding of a successful Indigenous higher education initiative. By paying careful attention to contextual factors, I describe the theoretical and practical significance of this effort and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Higher Education, Participant Observation, Alaska Natives