Higher education drives and is driven by globalisation. It trains the highly skilled workers and contributes to the research base and capacity for innovation that determine competitiveness in the knowledge-based global economy. It facilitates international collaboration and cross-cultural exchange. Cross-border flows of ideas, students, faculty and financing, coupled with developments in inform...

HIED 60093 VARIABLE TOPIC WORKSHOP IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION 1-6 Credit Hours (Slashed with HIED 70093) Variable topics; designed to respond to specialized needs of various groups with the contexts of trends, issues and problems in the various higher education disciplines. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Schedule Type: Workshop Contact Hours: 1-6 other Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatis...

Knowledge Management (KM) is based in large part on systems that help users focus their attention on key information that is relevant, timely, and available on-demand. The preparation of this information requires processes for knowledge acquisition, engineering, and representation because “knowledge and expertise are embedded within otherwise diverse and scattered information sources” (Convera,...

HIED 60093 VARIABLE TOPIC WORKSHOP IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION 1-6 Credit Hours (Slashed with HIED 70093) Variable topics; designed to respond to specialized needs of various groups with the contexts of trends, issues and problems in the various higher education disciplines. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Schedule Type: Workshop Contact Hours: 1-6 other Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatis...

We wish to commend Patterson et al (March Journal)1 on their endeavour to describe a competency model for general practice. We fully support their view that it is important to be able to describe not only what we do but also what our patients want us to do. We are also gratified that they have provided further support for the validity of the component consultation competences contained within t...

Lebanon's higher education is the oldest in the region. It goes back to 1866 when the American University of Beirut (AUB) was founded under the name of the Syrian Evangelical College, followed by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in 1875, then by the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 1947 as a Beirut College for Women. The Lebanese University (LU) which is the only public university in t...

The Japanese higher education system can be distinguished as an example of diversified mass higher education in a highly industrialized country. Higher education system consists of various categories and types of institutions that are different in their missions, functions, academic standards, prestige, status, and financing methods. After World War II, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s, t...

Barry Munitz, President and Chief Executive Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust: Information technology will profoundly influence both the content and the delivery system for traditional colleges and universities. The challenge to translate the content—that mountain of data arriving so rapidly—into accurate and useful information and then into knowledge and wisdom will test everyone’s talent and energ...

Whilst the evaluation of higher education in different countries shares many features, it is subject to a range of interpretations and operational procedures. This variation is evident in the use made of external experts, the role played by various stake-holders and the scope and level of evaluation, including the extent to which education, and teaching, is assessed. Pilot projects at the Europ...

An evaluation framework for World Wide Web learning environments has been developed. The W3LS (WWW Learning Support) evaluation framework presented in this article is meant to support the evaluation of the actual use of Web learning environments. It indicates how the evaluation can be set up using questionnaires and interviews among other methods. The major evaluation aspects and relevant 'stak...