scholarly journals PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 262-270
Author(s):  
Fauziah Md Jaafar1*, ◽  
Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin ◽  
Khaliza Saidin ◽  
Fahainis Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Development Factor ◽  
Quality Learning

Higher education institutions face various challenges and obstacles in producing quality graduates who not only excel academically but also grow holistically, ready to face the job market upon their graduation from university. In line with this issue, strong psychosocial development, as well as a learning experience, is very necessary for students in higher education. Educational institutions are responsible for providing quality learning experiences and programs that are relevant to the needs of the job market industry so that students can apply the knowledge they have acquired at the school. Through the survey method, a total of 347 students responded to the survey questionnaire containing 61 items. Descriptive data analysis was conducted to see the level of psychosocial development of students. The findings showed that the Goal Setting factor was the highest (M = 4.07) and exceeded the mean score for the Autonomy Development factor and the Interpersonal Relationship Development factor. These findings also indicate that the Goal Setting factor is the most robust Psychosocial Development factor. This illustrates that respondents ’ability to determine their life goals is higher than other factors. It is hoped that this study can provide guidelines and empirical support to the Theory of Psychosocial Development to explain the contribution of students in improving their psychosocial development. In practical terms, students need to be exposed to more opportunities and experiences throughout their time at university.

scholarly journals Intensifying Focus on Service Quality in Higher Education Institutions: Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Mazni Saad ◽  
Norliana Ahmadshah ◽  
Kamisah Supian ◽  
Anita Abdul Rani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Quality In Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Learning

The influence of Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence was investigated on the lecturers’ Service Quality. Based on stratified sampling method, the results confirmed that both types of intelligence have a positive and significant influence on the lecturers’ teaching progression. In conclusion, if the average level of each intelligence was good, then the level of Service Quality would also excel accordingly. The study highlights the need to have both EQ and SQ as it will encourage and motivate them into giving their best service to the university as well as their highest commitment towards giving students the best quality learning experience.   Keywords: Emotional Intelligence; Higher Education Institutions; Service Quality; Spiritual Intelligence eISSN: 2398-4287© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i15.2340.

scholarly journals Higher Education Institutions and Post-Covid In-Demand Employability Skills: Responding Through Curriculum that Works

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Samuel O. Babalola ◽  
Clement O. O. Kolawole
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Frequency Count ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Innovative Curriculum ◽  
Descriptive Survey

This study explained that the post-Covid world of work would demand a new set of employability skills. Higher education institutions need to respond by preparing graduates with manifest post-COVID-19 employability skills through innovatively delivered curricula. Through literature review, the study identified post-Covid-19 in-demands employability skills and ways of innovatively fostering them. The study adopted the descriptive survey method and canvassed (104) faculty members’ (from 9 public universities) opinions through an online poll on the skills they considered relevant for post-pandemic graduate employability and integrating them into universities curricula. Data collected were descriptively analyzed using frequency count and percentage. Findings showed that when universities commit to innovative curriculum delivery, students can easily acquire skills and competencies required to effective security and create jobs in the post-Covid job market effectively recommended that universities should innovate their curricula by integrating post-Covid in-demands skills needed for students’ post-Covid job market.

scholarly journals The Use of Software as a Service to Facilitate Quality Learning Experience for Students in Higher Education Institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Akinlolu Olumide Akande ◽  
Jean-Paul Van Belle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
National Development ◽  
Software As A Service ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
Quality Learning

Abstract—Higher Education institutions (HEIs) contribute to knowledge creation and the development of individuals which leads to national development and economic growth. Although governments continuously provide funding for HEIs, the ever increasing population of students and changing cost of purchasing and maintaining needed resources makes the funding from governments insufficient for HEIs to provide students with all the necessary resources. One of the resources needed to train students and provide them with quality learning is software and applications which are expensive to buy and maintain. As a result, most HEIs are unable to provide their students with needed software and application and this makes learning process difficult for students. This research suggests that Software as a Service (SaaS) can provide a solution to this problem because HEIs can subscribe at little or no cost to service providers and students can access the needed software or application at any time from any place using any internet enabled device. This will also help HEIs to save a lot on cost as they only pay for the software when it is used thereby ensuring that the use of software and applications is maximized. This research looks into the current use of SaaS in HEIs to identify ways in which SaaS could be used effectively so as to contribute towards the creation of a conducive learning environment which can enhance quality learning. Index Terms: Software as a Service, SaaS, students, higher education, quality learning

Formacja prawnika wyzwaniem czasów

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-286
Author(s):  
Stanisław Leszek Stadniczeńko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Young People ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Political Disputes

The author considers the questions relating to the formation of lawyers’ professional traits from the point of view of the significance which human capital and investment in this capital hold in contemporary times. It follows from the analyses, which were carried out, that the dire need for taking up actions with the aim to shape lawyers appears one of the most vital tasks. This requires taking into account visible trends in the changing job market. Another aspect results from the need for multilevel qualifications and conditions behind lawyers’ actions and their decisions. Thus, colleges of higher education which educate prospective lawyers, as well as lawyers’ corporations, are confronted by challenges of forming, in young people, features that are indispensable for them to be valuable lawyers and not only executors of simple activities. The author points to the fact that lawyers need shaping because, among others, during their whole social lives and realization of professional tasks their personality traits and potential related to communication will constantly manifest through accepting and following or rejecting and opposing values, principles, reflexions, empathy, sensitivity, the farthest-fetched imagination, objectivism, cooperation, dialogue, distancing themselves from political disputes, etc. Students of the art of law should be characterized by a changed mentality, new vision of law – service to man, and realization of standards of law, as well as perception of the importance of knowledge, skills, attitudes and competences.

scholarly journals A News Big Data Analysis of Issues in Higher Education in Korea amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7347
Author(s):  
Jangwan Ko ◽  
Seungsu Paek ◽  
Seoyoon Park ◽  
Jiwoo Park
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
College Education ◽  
Big Data Analysis ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Government

This paper examines the main issues regarding higher education in Korea—where college education experienced minimal interruptions—during the COVID-19 pandemic through a big data analysis of news articles. By analyzing policy responses from the government and colleges and examining prominent discourses on higher education, it provides a context for discussing the implications of COVID-19 on education policy and what the post-pandemic era would bring. To this end, we utilized BIgKinds, a big data research solution for news articles offered by the Korea Press Foundation, to select a total of 2636 media reports and conducted Topic Modelling based on LDA algorithms using NetMiner. The analyses are split into three distinct periods of COVID-19 spread in the country. Some notable topics from the first phase are remote class, tuition refund, returning Chinese international students, and normalization of college education. Preparations for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), contact and contactless classes, preparations for early admissions, and supporting job market candidates are extracted for the second phase. For the third phase, the extracted topics include CSAT and college-specific exams, quarantine on campus, social relations on campus, and support for job market candidates. The results confirmed widespread public attention to the relevant issues but also showed empirically that the measures taken by the government and college administrations to combat COVID-19 had limited visibility among media reports. It is important to note that timely and appropriate responses from the government and colleges have enabled continuation of higher education in some capacity during the pandemic. In addition to the media’s role in reporting issues of public interest, there is also a need for continued research and discussion on higher education amid COVID-19 to help effect actual results from various policy efforts.

Revisiting the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice Framework: Exploring What Fits with Virtual Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 097215092110153
Author(s):  
Sudhir Rana ◽  
Amit Kumar Singh ◽  
Shubham Singhania ◽  
Shubhangi Verma ◽  
Moon Moon Haque
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Virtual Teaching

The present study revisits the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) framework and explores what motivates business management academicians in teaching virtually. The revisit is based on a quantitative cross-sectional research design using 256 responses collected from in-service business management academicians teaching post-graduate business courses in India, through a structured questionnaire. The exercise of revisiting the FIT-Choice framework in the context of virtual teaching in business management courses led us to find four new variables, that is, task demand and expert career, teaching efficacy, knowledge assimilation and institutional utility value, as well as suggest revising teaching and learning experience, task returns and values. The results reveal that some additional factors motivating business academicians are teaching efficacy, content expertise, learning of new technology, futuristic growth and opportunities, alternative career opportunities and personal branding. The study provides suggestions to the apex bodies, regulators of higher education and institutions to take a call on motivational and influential factors while drafting the job requirements in business schools. Finally, the study emphasizes the importance of infrastructural and technological development required to be achieved by higher education institutions.

Does Customer Experience Always Benefit Company? Examining Customers’ Epistemic Motivation and Interaction With Service Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492199886
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Mai Chi ◽  
Widya Paramita ◽  
Tran Ha Minh Quan
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Epistemic Motivation ◽  
Engagement Behavior ◽  
Company Identification ◽  
Employee Identification

The main purpose of this study is explaining how and when customer experience benefits the company. Built upon social identity theory, we propose that customer experience leads to customer engagement behavior, via two routes: customer-company and customer-employee identification. Furthermore, we advance that customers’ epistemic motivation negatively moderates the mediated effect of customer experience on customer engagement behavior. We ran two studies to validate the measurement of customer experience and to test our hypotheses. For the two studies, we employed a survey method by recruiting consumers of beauty salons in Vietnam. The results demonstrated that EXQ as a measurement for customer experience is applicable to the context of the study and provided empirical support for the hypotheses. Such as, this research found that customer experience positively influences customer engagement behavior as mediated by customer-company and customer-employee identification. Furthermore, this research revealed that customer epistemic motivation negatively moderates the mediated effect of customer experience on customer engagement behavior via customer-employee identification. However, the moderating role of customer epistemic motivation is insignificant for the mediated relationship via customer-company identification. Finally, this research offers theoretical and practical contributions that are elaborated and further discussed.

scholarly journals Increasing Access to Higher Education: A study of the diffusion of online teaching among 913 college faculty

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Shea ◽  
Alexandra Pickett ◽  
Chun Sau Li
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Faculty Satisfaction ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Discipline Area

<p>Online learning environments provide an unprecedented opportunity to increase student access to higher education. Accomplishing this much needed goal requires the active participation and cooperation of university faculty from a broad spectrum of institutional settings. Although online learning has seen rapid growth in recent years, it remains a relatively small percentage of the entire curriculum of higher education today. As a relatively recent development, online teaching can be viewed through the lens of diffusion of innovation research. This paper reports on research from 913 professors from community colleges, four-year colleges, and university centers in an attempt to determine potential barriers to the continued growth in adoption of online teaching in higher education. It is concluded through factor and regression analysis that four variables are significantly associated with faculty satisfaction and their likelihood, therefore, to adopt or continue online teaching – these include levels of interaction in their online course, technical support, a positive learning experience in developing and teaching the course, and the discipline area in which they taught. Recommendations for institutional policy, faculty development, and further research are included. </p> <p><b>Keywords: </b>online teaching, faculty satisfaction, faculty development, diffusion of innovation, access, higher education, study </p>

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