Education for sustainable development (ESD) is essential humanity to overcome the immense challenges it faces as a result of human actions on nature [...]

This study, by considering the importance of e-learning in higher education system,has the aim to identify and explore alternative solutions of the development of elearningin Iran. This research has been conducted using an exploratory qualitativeresearch methodology with two groups of respondents including both faculty membersand PhD students in three different higher education institutes in Ha...

Many academic institutions in Malaysia commit themselves to eLearning because they believe in its effectiveness as an alternative approach to the traditional classroom method of disseminating information. Preparing and managing eLearning is a complex process it requires a shift from change management to strategic planning. This paper will present the findings of a project undertaken to study st...

This chapter explores factors that enhance and constrain the adoption and sustainability of Information and Communication Technologies in Universities and higher institutions of learning in South Africa. This study examines pedagogical, socio-economic and epistemological aspects of the paradigm shift in higher education delivery in Africa. Adopting and sustaining ICTs for educational improvemen...

Once a relatively stable industry operating in a benign environment, global higher education is undergoing dramatic change. Higher education institutions (HEIs) now face a variety of challenges including globalisation, changes in funding arrangements and the emergence of organisations like consultancies that are moving into the ‘education space’. Increasingly, there is a need to think in compet...

Abstract—In the last two decades, number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) grows in leaps and bounds. This causes a cut throat competition among these institutions while attracting the student get admission in these institutions. To make reach up to the students institution makes effort of advertisement. Similarly developing and developed both type of institution launch several services al...

Education has an extraordinary potential for generating development. Nonetheless, today’s education, particularly university education is propagating ‘maldevelopment’the disintegration of the educational continuum and the absence of a social contract on education lies at the heart of this contradiction. Higher education has the responsibility of creating the capacity for sustainable development...

This study reviews and explores the varying effects of college quality caused by different measure of college quality, including Barron’s ratings, mean SAT scores of entering freshman class, tuition and fees, and Carnegie Classification. Data for this research come from NCES’ Baccalaureate & Beyond study. Results suggest that the estimated effect of college quality is sensitive to the measure o...

BACKGROUND In preparation for the initial offering of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Interior-Aleutians Campus Rural Nutrition Services (RNS) program, a literature review was conducted to establish the need for the proposed program and to substantiate the methodology for delivering integrated, culturally tailored postsecondary education and extension to Alaska Natives and rural Alask...