An assessment framework for contemporary commercial music (CCM) in higher education

An interpretation of philosophy and aesthetics for contemporary music education

Rethinking about continuous quality assessment in Iran higher education: Need for strengthening national evaluation agencies and framework revision

Success of national institutions of quality assessment (NIQA) and accreditation of quality depends on the external quality assurance (EQA) processes. In spite of the fact, it is more than two decades that continuous quality assessment started in higher education in Iran. Nevertheless, the external in higher education quality assessment (non-medical), has not been done in an organized way yet. A...

Mnemonics for Higher Education Using Contemporary Technologies

Education pierces into the contemporary world due to the influence of the emerging technologies in the digital world. Education field is also bombarded by the modern technologies and the demands of the digital society. It is affected by cloud computing, green computing and Internet. Still the success of this depends upon the minimization of the knowledge loss, while transferring ideas from teac...

Spirituality and Contemporary Higher Education

Though religion played a central role in the founding of U.S. higher education, over the centuries, its influence was diluted by competing secular emphases. In recent decades, religion has seen a resurgence in academic and co-curricular attention on campuses. In addition, a spirituality not based on religion has gained increasing attention. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of t...

Outcome-Based Quality Assessment Framework for Higher Education

term in those days. The traditional concept of quality was inferred from the fact that world-class universities like Harvard and Oxford were considered benchmarks and no further dissection on the dimensions of quality was done. (Green 1994). Green (1994) gave an extensive analysis of the literature that defines the term quality and categorized them into the following five approaches (1) Conform...