Predicting gainful learning in Higher Education; a goal-orientation approach

Impact of Organizational Learning on Market Orientation of Higher Education Agriculture Departments

A Principled Approach to Facilitating Distance Education: The Internet, Higher Education and Higher Levels of Learning

In an earlier study I investigated the essential principles that facilitate higher levels of learning in Internet-based distance learning university courses. In this study I explored how these teaching and learning principles could be applied in Internetbased distance learning environments. I used an open-ended questionnaire to determine how (or if) the teaching and learning principles identifi...

Effective Distance Teaching and learning in Higher Education

Nowadays, Universities have come across a main transformation. Lack of budget, an increase in the number of university students, a change in the student population, up-to-date and various educational needs of each society require fundamental changes that are coordinated with recent needs. This study aimed to evaluate the features of effective distance education in higher education. Findings of ...

A blended learning approach in higher education: A case study from surveying education

The development of a blended learning approach to enhance surveying education is discussed in this paper. The need for such learning strategy is first investigated based on a major review of the Surveying course including analysis of its content, benchmarking with key national/international universities, and various surveys to key stake holders and recent graduates. Appropriate blended learning...

Predicting Student Dropout in Higher Education

Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students. Yet, little quantitative research has analyzed the causes and possible remedies for student attrition. Here, we describe initial efforts to model student dropout using the largest known dataset on higher education attrition, wh...