Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education: Volume 16 Issue 4

An assessment framework for contemporary commercial music (CCM) in higher education

Alethea Cassandra de Villiers, Robert Gillmer

The aim of the article is to develop a framework for assessment for contemporary commercial music (CCM) in a music department that is still organised in a traditional way…

Examining the prospect of online education as drivers of effective and uninterrupted university education in the post-COVID-19 era

Henry T. Ajibo, Jacinta C. Ene

The impact of COVID-19 on the educational systems across the globe was characterized by the shutdown of university education systems. In the post COVID-19 era, examining the…

The pedagogy mix: teaching marketing effectively in business/management education

Chandan Maheshkar, Jayant Sonwalkar

This paper aims to explore the key factors through which an optimum pedagogy mix can be determined towards effective teaching practice and enhanced student learning outcomes in…

Higher education in emergency situation: blended learning prospects and challenges for educators in the developing countries

Boahemaa Brenya

Blended learning (BL) is becoming more popular as a method of welcoming a progressively diverse range of students while adding value to the learning environment through the…

Pedagogical innovation to captivate students to ethics education in engineering

Fátima Monteiro, Armando Sousa

The purpose of the article is to develop an innovative pedagogic tool: an escape room board game to be played in-class, targeting an introduction to an ethics course for…

HyFlex pedagogy: six strategies supported by design-based research

Emily Howell, Koti Hubbard, Sandra Linder, Stephanie Madison, Joseph Ryan, William C. Bridges

This study investigates the following research question: What pedagogical strategies are necessary for the success of HyFlex course design? The findings to this question are based…

The acquisition of nominal gender agreement: praxeology analysis of Arabic second language text book “Silsilah Al-Lisaan”

Syihabuddin Syihabuddin, Nurul Murtadho, Yusring Sanusi Baso, Hikmah Maulani, Shofa Musthofa Khalid

Assessing whether a book is relevant or suitable for use in teaching materials is not an easy and haphazard matter, various methods and theories have been offered by researchers…

Whole-institution approach to social justice education for preservice teachers

Kaitlin K. Moran, Mary E. Sheppard, Aubrey Wang

This study used the design process (analysis, development, and evaluation) to understand and refine the process, dimensions, and outcomes of a multi-year, whole-institution…

Socioeconomic disparities in the retention and graduation rates of dual-enrolled students

Nicholas Urquhart, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Cordelia Zinskie, Richard Cleveland

This research examine participation in a dual enrollment program and a student's race and socioeconomic status. In addition to examining the college retention and graduation rates…

Exploring the intention to use mobile learning applications among international students for Chinese language learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

Salah A.M. Ahmed, Mohammed A.E. Suliman, Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri, Wenlan Zhang

This study aims to improve the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model by examining technological anxiety and other influential factors on international…

Supporting college student self-determination through motivational interviewing

Benjamin Buck Blankenship, Jon Lee

This study was intended to investigate a small-scale School-based Motivational Interviewing (SBMI) pilot with first-year college students. This approach honors student autonomy…

Applying collaborative research supervision approach in higher education

Kaone Bakokonyane, Nkobi Owen Pansiri

The purpose of this study was to examine the application of the collaborative research supervision approach (CRSA) to learning projects in higher education, using socialisation…

Leadership and change management in the transition to online curriculum delivery in Malaysia: a comparative case study

Mei Yuan Law

This research aims to investigate the leadership strategies employed by two higher education institutions in Malaysia as they navigated the shift to online delivery of their…

A program evaluation of an international, intercultural e-community-engagement initiative

Audrey F. Falk, Martina Jordaan, Sameerah T. Saeed, Madasu Bhaskara Rao, Nour El Houda Chaoui

This program evaluation aimed to investigate the benefits and challenges of an international, intercultural, e-community-engagement experience involving youth and higher education…

The effect of pretranslation techniques in developing EFL students' translation ability

Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady, Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal, Samia Khalifa Abdullah

English as a foreign langauge (EFL) students find it difficult to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire on translation in the practical world. Therefore, this study…

The effect of corpus-assisted language teaching on academic collocation acquisition by Iranian advanced EFL learners

Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani, Saeed Ketabi

This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and…

Reinventing teaching pedagogy: the benefits of quiz-enhanced flipped classroom model on students' learning outcomes and engagement

Kamaludeen Samaila, Hosam Al-Samarraie

The flipped classroom model is an emerging teaching pedagogy in universities, colleges and secondary schools. This model will likely be successful if students prepare and acquire…

Identifying the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in higher education: a qualitative study

Fateme Jafari, Ahmad Keykha

This research was developed to identify artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities and challenges in higher education.

Exploring the abilities of emotional intelligence in psychological empowerment: digital leadership as mediator

Sadia Anwar, Ummi Naiemah Saraih

Numerous studies have been conducted on psychological empowerment's effects on individual and organizational outcomes. This research study investigates the effects of emotional…

Illuminating the trans-mediation process: an eye-tracking study of sketching to light painting in design education

Keyur Sahasrabudhe, Gagan Prakash, Sophia Gaikwad, Vijay Shah

This study is an “Action-Research-based” bridge that connects sketching and photographic processes. The article’s objective encompasses designing, assessing and validating a…

Do not forget about me, do not forget about you. Usability of a mobile app for professional identity formation

Silvia Lizett Olivares-Olivares, Miriam Lizzeth Turrubiates Corolla, Juan Pablo Nigenda Alvarez, Natalia Mejía Gaviria, Mariana Lema-Velez, Miguel Angel Villarreal Rodríguez, Luis Carlos Franco Ayala, Elena María Trujillo Maza, Isabel Barriga Cosmelli, Klaus Puschel Illanes

Professional Identity Formation is the dynamic evolution to “think, act and feel” to become part of a professional community. This document presents the development and the study…

Students-staff classroom co-creation as model of employability skills development in a Nigerian university

Samuel Oluwasanmi Babalola

The paper explored students-staff classroom co-creation and students' involvement in out-of-class engagements as means of fostering employability skills in higher education…

Advancing teacher competencies: assessing the influence of faculty development programs (FDP) on embracing modern innovations in teaching

Abhinandan Kulal, Abhishek Nanjundaswamy, Sahana Dinesh, Neethu Suraj, N. Mallika

The present research aimed to examine the role of FDP in enhancing the teachers' competencies through modern technological tools and innovative teaching methods. And also, to…

Complex thinking and robotics: a proposal for sexual and gender diversity and inclusion training

Paloma Suárez-Brito, Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia, Christian Fernando López-Orozco, José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, Edgar Omar López-Caudana

The objective of this proposal was to propose an educational innovation resource for the delivery of workshops with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and…