Special Edition: Games in Higher Education

Higher Education Research Network Journal: EFAD Special Edition Vol 5

Numerous programmes have been implemented to improve the quality of French higher education but the paucity of learning-focused objectives has resulted in contradictory initiatives. Expanding pedagogical development activities for professors, as emphasised by various reports, is a remedy worth exploring as only approximately 15 out of 150 higher education institutions currently have a teaching ...

Perspectives on Medical Education Special Edition

We’ve all tried things that didn’t work. We’ve enthusiastically introduced a flipped classroom format that the learners didn’t flip over. We’ve carefully crafted research projects only to realize that the hypothesis was woefully ill-conceived. We’ve implemented new assessment strategies that generated lots of data, but left us with little insight into student performance. We’ve all been there. ...

Sensoria Special Edition on The future of higher education: Exploring the students’ voice: Editorial

This Special Edition of Sensoria: A Journal of Mind, Brain, and Culture presents a collection of papers in which a relatively recent pedagogical direction for universities is explored – a focus on learners rather than on the ‘sage on the stage’ (King, 1993). Until the 1990s, learning and teaching in universities worldwide tended to follow the sage on the stage model in which an ‘expert’ would i...

Special Issue on Diversity in Higher Education

cation and recent anti-affirmative action legislation that poses setbacks in college access for underrepresented minorities (URMs). One important misconception is that K–12 schools have sufficiently addressed past inequalities in providing URMs access to college preparatory education. This article attacks this misconception using the circumstances in K–12 schools and the University of Californi...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education