Outdoor Environmental Education in Higher Education: International Perspectives

Traditional adventure activities in outdoor environmental education

Recently, the place of adventure activities in outdoor education has become contentious, particularly in Australia and the United Kingdom. It can be challenging for outdoor leaders to incorporate adventure activities with attempts to foster environmental awareness, understanding and action. Recently, some authors have suggested practitioners eliminate the tension by removing adventure activitie...

Global Perspectives on Higher Education

Economic Growth and Tertiary Education Arguments that link education and economic growth are familiar to all of us. A recent analysis of sources of economic growth conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that improvement in human capital—as measured by increasing levels of educational attainment— was a common factor behind growth in all OECD member co...

Accreditation in Higher Education and Medical Education

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...

Constructing Globalisation in International Higher Education

Dominant Perspectives on ICT & Higher Education

The application of technology into teaching and learning is a fairly new phenomenon in higher education environments. While the intake trends are growing at an increasing rate in academic institutions however, the conceptual framework is lagging behind. There is a lack of consensus on conceptions of a relationship between ICT and learning processes in academia. As a result, it is difficult to u...