The current virtual and physical mobility of humans, ideas, knowledge and epistemologies has major implications for education, especially in settings where English is seen as the default medium of instruction. While diversity is inherent in mobility, English-only pedagogy is a denial of the richness and potential of diverse resources learners bring with them through their mobility. This paper r...

In this article Vicki Carter, Instructional Programmer at The Pennsylvania State University, reviews the academic literature of distance education which has considered, whether the media and technologies of education affect the learning which takes place. She finds that the conventional answer, especially from a North American perspective, is in the negative, despite a minority who assert the c...

introduction: collaborative methods of learning in the university have been a successful and the main aspects of the students’ engagement. the purpose of this study was to determine university engagement and collaborative learning in nursing students of kerman university of medical sciences. materials and methods: this research was a descriptive correlation study on a total of 238 nursing stude...

Higher education costs have skyrocketed in recent years, leaving millions of students in copious amounts of debt. Facing problems with decreased support from state legislators, universities have increased tuition and fees to compensate. At the same time, university spending, especially in non-academic programs and services, has continued to rise. A fight as emerged between states and the school...

After overwhelming the crisis period turbulent economic environment is typical for present days as well as permanent increasing dependability of all our activities on information and communication technology (ICT). General basis for using ICT in economy is sufficient number of well-qualified specialists with university education background, especially ICT professionals. In this contribution two...

Although economists acknowledge that various indicators of educational attainment (e.g., highest grade completed, credentials earned) might serve as signals of a worker’s productivity, the practical importance of education-based signaling is not clear. In this paper we estimate the signaling value of a high school diploma, the most commonly held credential in the U.S. To do so, we compare the e...

Modernization theorists believe that education empowers citizens to take collective action to challenge authoritarian rule. I argue that education in most authoritarian countries is government run, and that authoritarian governments have enormous incentives to shape the form and content of education in their favor. In post-Tiananmen China, the government has used propaganda, control, and recrui...