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Who Will Participate in Online Collaborative Problem Solving? A Longitudinal Network Analysis
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Cixiao Wang; Jianjun Xiao – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Community-based courses, driven by connectivist learning theory, provide learners with a social environment that supports collaborative problem solving (CPS). The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of potential collaborators before they engage in CPS. This study analyzed a community-based course, a cMOOC with a total of…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Responding to the Neoliberal and Managerial Changes: A Generational Perspective of Chinese Academics
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Huang, Ya-Ting – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Although all Chinese academics from different generational cohorts are increasingly subjected to a variety of specific institutional practices and technologies, each generational group is distinctive in terms of its opportunities and constraints, and each one understands, experiences and responds to the neoliberal and managerial reforms in quite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Educational Change
University Dean Personal Characteristics and Use of Management Control Systems and Performance Measures
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Bobe, Belete J.; Kober, Ralph – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Drawing on upper echelon theory, we investigate whether university deans' personal characteristics, including age, sex, educational background, and tenure are associated with their use of university management control systems (MCS), financial performance measures, and non-financial performance measures. We surveyed the dean of every faculty across…
Descriptors: Deans, Administrator Characteristics, Age Differences, Gender Differences
The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Class-Based Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism
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Morley, Louise; Lund, Rebecca W. B. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Women leaders are frequently treated as one class -- a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women's diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal…
Descriptors: Feminism, Instructional Leadership, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
Portuguese Academics' Perceptions of Higher Education Institutions' Governance and Management: A Generational Perspective
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Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa; Cardoso, Sónia – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This article aims to analyse academics' perceptions on changes in the governance and management of higher education institutions (HEIs) under a generational perspective. It is empirically based on the analysis of national data resulting from the "Changing Academic Profession" international survey. Findings reveal a general tendency for…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Fact Book on Higher Education
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Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition