Editorial: Generic skills in higher education

Assessing an Assessment Tool of Higher Education: Progress Report on Generic Skills (PROG) in Japan

Received Dec 21, 2013 Revised Jan 20, 2014 Accepted Feb 26, 2014 Assessment of learning outcomes of college students has been at issue around the world in recent years. Given that grade point average (GPA) may not be a reliable indicator for learning, some organizations have developed new types of assessment tools that measure generic skills, such as the Assessment of Higher Education Learning ...

Vietnam: Higher Education and Skills for Growth

Implementing evidence based health skills in practice through higher education

The promotion of a sustainable evidence-based health care practice requires multiple efforts. Since master’s level courses in health sciences in Sweden target practicing professionals, integrating knowledge and skills related to evidence-based practice into higher education is one way of reaching this goal. Here we describe the implementation of the course Evidence Based Practice, 7.5 ECTS at t...

Integrating sustainability in higher education: a generic matrix

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework in the form of a generic matrix of options for integrating sustainability in higher education (SHE) so that university faculty and administrators can make more appropriate and strategic choices with respect to SHE. Design/methodology/approach – This original matrix draws from and extends previous empirical and conceptual research on ...

Metacognitive Skills Development: a Web-based Approach in Higher Education

Although there were studies that presented the applications of metacognitive skill training, the research on web-based metacognitive skills training are few. The purpose of this study is to design a web-based learning environment and further examine the effect of the web-based training. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Fifty-three college students were assign...