scholarly journals A ‘Contest’ as a Pedagogical Method in Tourism Higher Education: a Case Study in Teaching Creativity Through Problem-Solving

Turyzm ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała ◽  
Tomasz Napierała ◽  
Kathleen M.C. Tjørve ◽  
Even Tjørve
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The main goal of the paper is to discuss whether a contest, as an educational tool, can develop the creativity of participants when the main goal of the students may be to win. A 24HOURS contest was implemented as a case study. Three methods were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the 24HOURS contest: a written questionnaire, individual in-depth interviews, and an online questionnaire. Results proved that the contest was unsatisfactory in increasing students’ creativity, as they were oriented to win, or to acquire knowledge, rather than to cooperate or interact with representatives of other student teams. The investigation confirmed the tutors’ enabling responsibility for both cooperation and creativity during the contest. However, expectations of tutor engagement caused concern and their role should, therefore, have been more clearly defined. Analysis of the case study presented in this paper can provide pedagogues with insight into the design and implementation of contests as educational tools.

Real Time Experience of Participants in Higher Education During The Coronavirus: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Randa Khair Abbas ◽  
Eman Abu Hanna Nahhas ◽  
Khawla Zoabi ◽  
Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan ◽  
Hanadi Abu Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Time Experience ◽  
New Learning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Depth Interviews

This case study explored the real-time experience of participants in the Arab Academic College for Education in Haifa, Israel, during the coronavirus pandemic. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with management, administrative staff, faculty and students. Participants' stories reveal that feelings of stress and isolation gave way to new learning and self-discovery, a new relationship with time, and the creation of new knowledge on the personal and institutional levels. Strong, coordinated leadership, combined with legal and financial security, facilitated the transition to online learning and allowed the college to emerge from the crisis successfully. Implications are drawn for dealing with future crises.

scholarly journals POSITIONING INDONESIAN ISLAMIC HIGHER-EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS GLOBALISATION: ORGANISATIONAL–RESILIENCE DYNAMICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-427
Author(s):  
Erika Setyanti Kusumaputri ◽  
Hanifah Latif Muslimah ◽  
Adib Ahmad ◽  
Mayreyna Nurwardani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Curriculum Standardization ◽  
The University ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the present era of globalisation, higher-education institutions are required to focus on innovation to deal with the various challenges. Considering what Islamic higher-education institutions in Indonesia, have achieved in recent times, they face an uphill struggle to compete at the global level. This study aimed at identifying and analysing the dynamics of resilience for globalisation in a state Islamic–University in Indonesia. The results of studies on the management of Islamic tertiary institutions, specifically on organizational resilience, are very difficult to find. This study used the qualitative analysis method of a case-study and comprised in-depth interviews with key people concerned with the management of the university, observation, and secondary data namely academic documents, photos, and information from the university’s official website. The findings showed the university’s continuous efforts to improve not only the academic community’s management skills, knowledge, and expertise but also the implementation of international-curriculum standardization and cooperation with overseas universities. These actions cannot be separated from obstacles faced by university from within and without particularly in terms of funding-related policies. The university’s program-based innovations which are yet to be carried out by other Islamic-universities in Indonesia indicate this institution’s initiative to break the obstacles.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap between Theory and Empirical Research in Evaluative Judgment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hassan Khosravi ◽  
George Gyamfi ◽  
Barbara E. Hanna ◽  
Jason Lodge ◽  
Solmaz Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Evaluative Judgment ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Education Literature

The value of students developing the capacity to accurately judge the quality of their work and that of others has been widely studied and recognized in higher education literature. To date, much of the research and commentary on evaluative judgment has been theoretical and speculative in nature, focusing on perceived benefits and proposing strategies seen to hold the potential to foster evaluative judgment. The efficacy of the strategies remains largely untested. The rise of educational tools and technologies that generate data on learning activities at an unprecedented scale, alongside insights from the learning sciences and learning analytics communities, provides new opportunities for fostering and supporting empirical research on evaluative judgment. Accordingly, this paper offers a conceptual framework and an instantiation of that framework in the form of an educational tool called RiPPLE for data-driven approaches to investigating the enhancement of evaluative judgment. Two case studies, demonstrating how RiPPLE can foster and support empirical research on evaluative judgment, are presented.

scholarly journals Perencanaan manajemen risiko atlet berprestasi Indonesia (Studi kasus atlet dengan risiko cedera tinggi)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Briezy Baihaqi ◽  
Maria Puspitasari ◽  
Maria Zuraida ◽  
Ahmad Nurcholis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Financial Planning ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Risk Management Planning

Atlet berprestasi memiliki risiko yang bisa menyebabkan kesulitan keuangan saat pensiun dari olahraga. Atlet dengan risiko cedera tinggi berpeluang lebih besar mengalami kesulitan keuangan karena berpotensi pensiun lebih dini akibat cedera. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana manajamen risiko yang dilakukan atlet berprestasi dari cabang olahraga dengan risiko cedera tinggi untuk meminimalisir risiko saat pensiun dengan mengoptimalkan pendapatan yang dimiliki ketika masih aktif sebagai atlet. Landasan konsep yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah manajemen risiko dengan dua perencanaan, yaitu perencanaan keuangan menggunakan perencanaan keuangan pribadi milik Kapoor, Dlabay dan Hughes (2009) dan perencanaan pendidikan. Wawancara mendalam dilakukan terhadap empat atlet berprestasi dan satu perwakilan federasi serta studi dokumen. Hasilnya, manajemen risiko yang dimiliki keempat informan yaitu tabungan dari gaji pegawai negeri sipil dan honor atlet, investasi berupa tanah dan properti, dan rumah atas nama sendiri. Manajemen risiko yang dimiliki masih membuat informan rentan terpapar risiko saat pensiun karena hanya mengelola risiko dari sisi materi yang bisa habis. Sementara itu keempat informan tidak melanjutkan pendidikan tinggi. Idealnya, manajemen risiko juga dilakukan oleh federasi dengan membuka peluang beasiswa untuk atlet melanjutkan pendidikan tinggi. Rekomendasi dari penelitian ini yaitu pemerintah perlu mendorong dan menyediakan beasiswa afirmasi untuk pendidikan tinggi atlet. Indonesian athlete risk management planning (Case study athletes with high-risk injury) AbstractHigh-achieving athletes are at risk of causing financial difficulties when they retire from sports. Athletes with high injuries are more likely to experience financial difficulties due to early retirement due to injury. The purpose of this study was to see how risk management performed by high-achieving athletes from sports with high injuries to minimize risks at retirement by optimizing the income they had while still active as an athlete. The concept used in this research is risk management with two plans, financial planning using private financial planning by Kapoor, Dlabay and Hughes (2009) and educational planning. In-depth interviews were conducted with four athletes and one representative of the federation as well as document studies. The results of risk management owned by the four informants are savings from salaries of civil servants and athletes' honor, investment in the form of land and property, and houses in their own names. Athlete is still vulnerable to be exposed by risk during retirement. The four informants did not continue their higher education. Risk management is also carried out by the federation with scholarship opportunities for athletes to continue their higher education. The recommendation of this research is that the government encourages and provides affirmative scholarships for higher education athletes.

scholarly journals Mind the gap: identifying barriers to students engaging in creative practices in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Lluís Solé ◽  
Laia Sole-Coromina ◽  
Simon Ellis Poole
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeCreativity is nowadays seen as a desirable goal in higher education. In artistic disciplines, creative processes are frequently employed to assess or evaluate different students' skills. The purpose of this study is to identify potential pitfalls for students involved in artistic practices in which being creative is essential.Design/methodology/approachThree focus groups involving Education Faculty members from different artistic disciplines allowed for the identification of several constraints when creativity was invoked. This initial study used a quantitative approach and took place in the “Universitat de Vic” (Catalonia, Spain).FindingsFindings suggest a correlation with existing literature and simultaneously point at some nuances that require consideration: emerging aspects embedded in creative processes that may help decrease some limiting effects that being creative can generate.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitations of this research derive from the very nature of the methodological approach. Focus group has been the single used source. Other means of collecting data, such as the analysis of programs, could be used in the future.Originality/valueThis case study, while culturally specific, offers a useful insight into the potential of further work in non-artistic disciplines but crucially across disciplines. It has tremendous value for the development of intercultural understanding in the higher education sector, specifically in terms of assessment.

Motivational Influences for Higher Education (HE) Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Costello ◽  
Murray Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Motivational Influences ◽  
Student's Perceptions ◽  
Games Development

This article offers a novel innovative gamification approach for undergraduates within higher education. To support the innovative approach, a mixed method data analysis investigation was conducted to capture the case study. The authors propose a gamification model to support student's perceptions and views while they were undertaking their Level 5 Games Technologies and Level 6 Games Development courses at a higher education institute within the northeast of the United Kingdom. The model used within gamification will provide a supportive approach for game thinking challenges, to help build upon excitement and motivational influences to improve retention, engagement, motivation, and problem solving, whilst using a competition between the two-year groups as an incentive. The authors' analysis suggests there are key factors between competition and using motivation through gamification to influence the learners.

Higher Education and Smart Specialization in North-East Romania

2019 ◽  
pp. 234-254
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Marinelli ◽  
Cosmina Mironov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
North East ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Education Hub ◽  
Smart Specialization

The chapter analyzes the links between the higher education system and the design and implementation of smart specialization strategies in north-east Romania, with the aim of providing actionable steps for policymakers, higher education institutions (HEIs), and other stakeholders. This case study allows reflecting on the potential of smart specialization in a region recognized as a higher-education hub in Romania and characterized by a very proactive regional development agency (RDA), but in which universities display limited engagement with the territory and where public administration is highly centralized. The findings identify actions that HEIs and the RDA can undertake to enhance universities' roles within RIS3. These revolve around (1) improving collaborations among HEIs within the region; (2) accessing international collaboration networks for research, teaching, and innovation; and (3) finding avenues of interaction with local actors.

Beyond Social Mobility: Biographies, Habitus and Responses to Changing ‘Conditions of Existence’ among University Scholarship Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042091138
Author(s):  
Maissam Nimer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Complex I ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Scholarship Students ◽  
Depth Interviews

Wider access to higher education at a global level has been accompanied by growing literature on experiences of social mobility often using the concept of habitus as a theoretical tool to frame responses to changes in ‘conditions of existence’. Drawing on the case study of a scholarship programme within an elite university in Lebanon, through in-depth interviews with students and university faculty and staff, this article elaborates on the typologies in responses that emerged as students position themselves in a new environment. These typologies, in contrast to the literature which presents them as a result of alterations in the habitus, appear to be related to each other and occur simultaneously within one person’s trajectory. As such, instead of viewing these responses as degrees of incorporation of each set of schemes of perceptions from both fields, the context of origin and the new social context appear to be multi-faceted, and the interaction between them is complex. I argue, along the lines of Lahire’s dispositional perspective, that the situation of contradictory experiences is not exceptional but characterizes all individuals to a certain extent, especially in the Lebanese context which is distinguished by its diversity in terms of regional and religious affiliations and in which class intersects with other types of identifications.

Authoring Self: GED Students Transforming Their Identities in a Composition Makerspace

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Gruen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
High School Equivalency ◽  
Ged Students ◽  
Insight Into

In this case study, I examine the ways adult learners improve skills and practices around communication, problem-solving, motivation, self-esteem, and technology through engagement in a makerspace curriculum focused on composition. A primary objective is to provide insight into the various ways that adult education environments can incorporate innovative practices of teaching and learning to prepare students for a standardized high school equivalency test and beyond. The patterns in the data revealed that makerspaces for the focal participants predominantly supported nonacademic skill development, particularly learning from mistakes, the importance of learning from each other, and identifying as a learner to aid in one’s learning.

scholarly journals Defining Landscapes, and Their Importance for National Identity—A Case Study from Slovenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6475
Author(s):  
Nadja Penko Seidl ◽  
Mateja Šmid Hribar ◽  
Jelka Hudoklin ◽  
Tomaž Pipan ◽  
Mojca Golobič
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
National Importance ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Depth Interviews

Although each landscape has its own identity, only some of them are recognized as nationally important because of their cultural and natural values and their contribution to national identity. In Slovenia, these landscapes are listed in the national Spatial Development Strategy (adopted in 2004). However, this list was neither supported by implementation instruments nor integrated in any conservation or management policy documents and was poorly integrated into spatial plans. The aim of this research was to renew the methodology for identifying landscapes of national importance. The methods included in-depth interviews with experts, an online questionnaire, participatory workshops, and field visits. The questionnaire results showed that only eight landscapes from the original list of 62 were explicitly recognized as nationally important, which confirmed the hypothesis that the initial method was not transparent and that the criteria were biased. The proposed approach included the following criteria: (1) representativeness, (2) the quality of the landscape features, and (3) the cultural and scientific value. The methodology was accompanied with the list of landscape features and landscape types that are important for Slovenian national identity; recommendations for implementing the method on national, regional, and local levels; and the general guidelines for spatial planning and management of these landscapes.

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