Large cities and metropolitan areas in developing countries are growing rapidly. These areas grew by attracting all facilities, services and capital of the country. Tehran has been the major city and center for decision and policy making in various administrative, political, economic and socialaspects. This political focus has brought economic, social, educational focus that attracted a vast ma...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

The following is the research question for this study. Are students’ learning styles based on the visual, auditory, tactile model correlated to satisfaction of course format in an online undergraduate course? The participants of this study were students enrolled in three sections of the Contemporary Worldviews course at a private higher education institution (HEI). Learning styles were determin...

Nowadays, humanity is increasingly focusing on the principles of sustainable development, which are becoming more and important, universities acting as agents to promote these in society. Many doing important work regarding environmental issues, but also social economic thus including three dimensions sustainability. This article highlights concepts related compares contrasts definitions educat...

Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with the...

Although institutional characteristics are assumed to influence student learning and intellectual development, this link has not been confirmed empirically. This study examined whether institutional mission, as represented by Carnegie classification, is related to student learning and development. After controlling for student background characteristics, no meaningful differences were found in ...

The Government of Poland (GoP) is currently engaged in reforming its higher educational institutional framework and sought World Bank assistance in assessing the quality of educational services at its higher education institutions (HEIs), specifically post-graduate courses and training. The World Bank prepared a study describing and comparing strategies followed by (largely) OECD countries in r...