BACKGROUND Recently, focusing on higher education quality has got increasingly critical. The novel managerial attitudes have defined the customer-demanded quality. Based on this, recognizing the receivers' perception of the quality of the services offered and evaluating the quality of the service is considered of the basic measures taken in order to develop quality promotion programs. Therefore...

This article addresses the roles, issues, approaches, rationale, pitfalls, priorities and balance of research in medical education, particularly its "disarray" status in Asia. Research in medical education has influenced education in many ways. Most importantly, it provides legitimate evidences to stakeholders on which to make educational decisions. It also has a wider social impact on teaching...

Innovation in learning technologies and services is driven by demands from Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in order to meet students’ needs and make knowledge delivery easier. The technology could play a pivotal role in extending the possibilities for teaching, learning, and research in educational institutions. M-learning emerged from this innovation as a result of an unprecedented expl...

The English language is continuing to establish itself as a global lingua franca in a period of unprecedented globalisation. In the period 1995–2005 educational systems worldwide have shown interest in the adoption of English as a medium of instruction. Teaching through a second language has been successful in certain educational environments. A methodological approach, ‘Content and Language In...

The purpose of this panel involves helping the IS community devise strategies for augmenting the field’s credibility. Representing different continents, educational systems, and roles, our panelists will provide a global perspective on IS credibility. Using stakeholder theory as an organizing framework, this panel will identify the key stakeholders that positively and negatively influence the I...

Introduction The future of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is you. All who are interested in advancing integration of healthcare information to improve patient care are welcome to participate in the IHE initiative. In particular, the stakeholders identified in a previous primer article (1)—the department chief or chairman, department manager or administrator, technologist, radiologi...

Changing regulations, pedagogy and didactics worldwide, have ensured that the educational system has changed severely. But the entrance of Web 2.0 and other technologies had a significant impact on the way we educate and assess our education too. The Web 2.0 applications also increase the cooperation between stakeholders in education and has led to the phenomenon ‘Learning Education’. Learning ...

As the world experienced COVID-19 outbreak, education was one of multiple systems that were hit hard. We explored consequences reconfiguration schooling based on experiences educational stakeholders caught up in sudden transition to virtual during COVID-19. Using Bronfenbrenner’s (1976) Ecological Systems framework, we underscored complexity individual’s socio-cultural and myriad influences imp...

Learner centred design methods highlight the importance of involving the stakeholders of the learning process (learners, teachers, educational researchers) at all stages of the design of educational applications and of refining the design through an iterative prototyping process. These methods have been used successfully when designing systems employing innovative concepts or technologies. In t...