scholarly journals Leading in Times of Disruption: Reimagining Leadership and Repositioning Leaders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessie H.H. Herbst
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Leadership Competency ◽  
Identity Shift ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
And Control ◽  
Capacity For Change

Peter Vaill’s evocative metaphor of “living in permanent whitewater” is very relevant to universities today. Leaders in our institutions (and elsewhere) are navigating unfamiliar territory—and they are doing so without a map. The demands and expectations placed on leaders can be extreme and is testing the abilities of our institutions’ leaders to the extreme. Leaders and leadership paradigms has been disrupted and the old model of fear and control do not work. However, the primary leadership challenge is not simply to develop a new leadership competency model—describing a group of behaviours we expect from our leadership. The deeper challenge is to develop a new mind-set that anchors, informs, and advances these new behaviours. The ability to question your own deeply entrenched assumptions and well-established worldviews, habits and mind-sets will be critical. When unpacking the case for change versus the capacity for change, this chapter surfaced, five kinds of shifts needed to lead in a world characterised by complexity, disruption and uncertainty. I have labelled these shifts as the Awareness shift, the Identity shift, the Mindset shift, the Paradigm shift and lastly the shift from Fear to psychological safety. Are these the only shifts that matter in the current state? I am sure not, we can add many more. But, I believe that these four shifts that demonstrate the complexities of the challenges facing higher education has the potential to reposition and reinvent our leadership for the future.

Conceptualizing international positioning strategies for Indian higher education institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir Rana ◽  
Shubhangi Verma ◽  
Moon Moon Haque ◽  
Gouher Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indian Higher Education

Purpose The manuscript reflects on the future of higher education from an emerging country perspective. The authors specifically answer how new education policies, ranking and accreditation are impacting the current state of Indian higher education institutions (IHEIs) and how IHEIs can cultivate their path towards positioning themselves internationally. This study aims to bring together existing scenarios and to serve as a springboard for future research and applications. Design/methodology/approach The manuscript is designed and executed as a conceptual study exploring the current state and prospects for IHEIs. The study synthesizes the concepts of positioning strategies in context to IHEIs. A conceptual diagram integrating existing concepts from marketing, total quality management and business education is created to understand the phenomenon among the IHEIs stakeholders. Findings The authors found that IHEIs started showing their international presence yet they are facing various challenges (government bureaucracy; international salary standards; global student population; and cultural sensitivity). The authors also found that the positioning problem is not a one-time attempt; the complexity of higher education is a “wicked problem” and, hence needs to be evaluated, changed and executed continuously. The manuscript offers relevant information to IHEIs leaders and stakeholders to improve on their international positioning strategies and proposes avenues for future research. Originality/value The study outlines future development and positioning strategic plans that IHEIs may consider and reflect in their strategic plan. The conceptual diagram on achieving successful international positioning and problem areas is expected to act as a guidebook for the key decision-makers. The focus is on distinguishing the imperatives, creating a key guide for meeting immediate requirements, allotting assets prudently to update their international presence. The study will provide IHEIs with a new lease of life in the future.

scholarly journals The Future of Higher Education: A New Paradigm Shift Addressing Students’ Diversity

2021 ◽  
pp. 369-376
Author(s):  
Khalid Arar ◽  
David Chen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual

AbstractRecent higher education (HE) trends, including broader accessibility, privatization, increased demands for accountability, and technological implementation, have largely neglected consideration of human diversity, including the individual learner’s nature and learning style. Two distinctive scientific perspectives pertain to these individual differences.

scholarly journals A University Serving the Oppressed: The Opportunity Afforded by Demographic Changes in Higher Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Drick Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education Needs

The demographic makeup of the students who will be attending college in the future is undergoing significant changes, as more students of color and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds seek higher education. While presenting a major challenge, these changes also present an opportunity to rethink assumptions about the culture of higher education, and the pedagogical practices best suited to serve the student of the future. Higher education needs to undergo a dramatic paradigm shift if it is to successfully serve student populations that have historically been oppressed and marginalized by higher education.

scholarly journals A felsőoktatás digitális oktatási kultúrájának korrajza szakértői interjúk alapján

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
László Hülber ◽  
Adrienn Papp-Danka ◽  
Ida Dringó-Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Educational Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Higher Education Pedagogy ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Practice

Az IKT eszközök a paradigmaváltás ígéretét sugallják a nevelés területén is, de komplex kihívást teremtenek azáltal, hogy nemcsak az oktatás folyamatát támogatják, hanem annak tárgyává is váltak. A technológia oktatásba való integrációja nem az elvárt eredményességgel valósul meg, kényszerítő hatású érvényesülése sokszor rossz módszertani gyakorlatot eredményez. Kutatásunkban az ország 24 elismert oktatásinformatikai, felsőoktatáspedagógiai szakértőjével készítettünk interjút azzal a céllal, hogy a felsőoktatás digitális oktatási kultúrájának jelenlegi helyzetét bemutassuk, egyfajta korlenyomatot biztosítva. Az interjúkérdések a módszertan, az önfejlesztés és a digitális oktatási kultúra értékelése tématerületek köré szerveződtek. A kapott válaszokat kvalitatív módszerrel dolgoztuk fel és a leírt szövegeket a tartalomelemzés szabályai szerint kódoltuk. Az eredmények bemutatása során a szakértői véleményeket szintetizáltuk, mert így kívánjuk segíteni a felsőoktatásban dolgozók módszertani kultúrájának formálását, tévképzeteik eloszlatását a pandémia által bevezetett kötelező digitális oktatás kihívásokkal teli időszakában.While ICT tools are promising a paradigm shift in education, they are  also presenting a complex challenge by being not only an aid to the  process of education but also the subject of it. The integration of  technology into education has not been bringing the expected success,  and when implemented by force, they often result in poor methodological  practice. In our study, we interviewed 24 renowned experts in  educational informatics and higher education pedagogy in Hungary in  order to acquire and present a picture of the current state of digital  educational culture in higher education. The interview questions are  centered around the topics of methodology, self-improvement, and the  evaluation of digital educational culture. Responses were processed  qualitatively and transcripts were coded according to the standard rules  of content analysis. In the discussion of the results, answers were  synthesized, because our aim is to shape the methodological culture of  teachers in higher education and to dispel their misconceptions in this  challenging period of compulsory digital education forced upon them by  the pandemic.

scholarly journals Sustainable development as a challenge of engineering education

2020 ◽  
pp. 304-304
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic ◽  
Tamara Vukic
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
International Context ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Republic

The purpose of this paper is to research the ways of integrating sustainable development into study programs of engineering faculties in an international context, as well as to analyze the current state of engineering education for sustainable development at the universities of the Republic of Serbia. Therefore, a desktop research, as well as an analysis of the engineering education curricula, have been conducted. The results of the research indicated to two possible approaches to the integration of SD into the engineering curricula - in the form of special subjects dedicated to the problems of sustainable development in the engineering, or as an integrative approach which implies that sustainable development becomes an integral part of the entire curriculum. Subjects dedicated to sustainable development have been identified at all universities, but not at all faculties where engineers are educated in the Republic of Serbia, they are present at all levels of study (undergraduate, master, doctoral), as well as within applied, integrated and specialist studies, and by status they are most often elective. The results confirm that the engineering curricula open up towards the questions of sustainable development both in international context, and in higher education of the Republic of Serbia and as such, they can serve to the relevant ministries of education and science, universities and engineering faculties as a recommendation in which way to plan and design higher education of engineers in the future in order to provide overall support in the integration of sustainability into the engineering.

Online Education Past, Current, and Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Chidi Nduagbo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future

This chapter addresses the paradigmatic shift in traditional education. It presents a historical overview of online education as a content and framework for understanding its current state and highlights how online education has become entrenched in business and in higher education worldwide. Beginning with distance education's contributions to the paradigmatic shift, this chapter provides a framework for understanding online education. It focuses on the connections and contributions of distance education to present day online education, the current trends in online education, and the projections of the future of online education. This chapter concludes that the nature and practice of online education across the globe will change in the next few years.

scholarly journals The present and the future of Russian higher education shown through university typology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (RL. 2020. vol.1. no. 2) ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lbova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Current State ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

In the article, through the study of various typologies of universities, the current state and the future of Russian higher education are assessed. There are different approaches to the classification of higher education institutions: classical, which views the university through the history; an approach that systematizes higher education institutions by belonging to a particular cultural tradition; economic approach. The authors of the typologies offer two opposite points of view regarding the future of the Russian university. According to the first point of view, the existing university system must be completely reformed. Supporters of the second one suggest adjusting the existing system to the requirements of modern society. Due to the analysis, we concluded that a hybrid option is more suitable for Russia, in which gradual changes allow preserving the advantages of Russian education and minimize the disadvantages.

scholarly journals Marketing Research: Current State and Next Steps

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 647-665
Author(s):  
Naresh K. Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Marketing Management ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Marketing Researcher

We highlight the current state-of-the-art and identify trends that are likely to shape the role of marketing research in the future. We discuss the growing importance of marketing research and some of the factors that are driving its importance. The redefinition of the marketing researcher and the line of demarcation between marketing research and marketing management, and thus the distinction between marketing researchers and marketing managers, that is becoming thinner and thinner, is described. The sheer availability of secondary data is driving their importance. In a paradigm shift, more and more marketing research is and will be undertaken as part of normal on-going business operations, rather than in response to specific marketing problems or opportunities.

Higher education in Russia: challenges of time and look into the future

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Aleshnikova ◽  
Aleksey Ahmetshin ◽  
Vera Basova ◽  
Ol'ga Vdovina ◽  
Andrey Voloshin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Doctoral Candidates

The monograph is devoted to analysis of the current state and prospects of development of the higher education system of Russia. The first section discusses the General problems of development of higher education as a driver of innovation shifts, the second examines the impact of digitization on higher education, the third section is devoted to the improvement of administrative and pedagogical potential of higher education, the fourth - the management of student environment of the University. Addressed to specialists who study the problems of higher education and of interest to postgraduates, doctoral candidates and students.

Remedies for Breach of Contract: The Future Development of Scots Law in its European and International Context

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector L MacQueen
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
European Contract ◽  
Breach Of Contract ◽  
International Context ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Law Commission

This paper,first presented on 21 October 1995 at ajoint seminar ofthe Scottish Law Commission and the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, on the subject of breach of contract, considers the future development of the law in this area, first by considering its history and current state in comparative terms and drawing the conclusion that it is characterised by a mixture of Civilian and Common Law elements; second, by comparing Scots law with the provisions on breach contained in recently published proposals for a harmonised law of contract (the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law prepared by the Lando Commission, and the draft “code”for the United Kingdom prepared on behalf of the English Law Commission by Harvey McGregor in the late 1960s) and in international conventions on the sale of goods. Although Scots law emerges reasonably wellfrom this exercise, there are a number of points to be taken on board in any future reform, as well as some insights into important underlying principles.

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