Many academic institutions in Malaysia commit themselves to eLearning because they believe in its effectiveness as an alternative approach to the traditional classroom method of disseminating information. Preparing and managing eLearning is a complex process it requires a shift from change management to strategic planning. This paper will present the findings of a project undertaken to study st...

This chapter explores factors that enhance and constrain the adoption and sustainability of Information and Communication Technologies in Universities and higher institutions of learning in South Africa. This study examines pedagogical, socio-economic and epistemological aspects of the paradigm shift in higher education delivery in Africa. Adopting and sustaining ICTs for educational improvemen...

Once a relatively stable industry operating in a benign environment, global higher education is undergoing dramatic change. Higher education institutions (HEIs) now face a variety of challenges including globalisation, changes in funding arrangements and the emergence of organisations like consultancies that are moving into the ‘education space’. Increasingly, there is a need to think in compet...

Abstract—In the last two decades, number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) grows in leaps and bounds. This causes a cut throat competition among these institutions while attracting the student get admission in these institutions. To make reach up to the students institution makes effort of advertisement. Similarly developing and developed both type of institution launch several services al...

Education has an extraordinary potential for generating development. Nonetheless, today’s education, particularly university education is propagating ‘maldevelopment’the disintegration of the educational continuum and the absence of a social contract on education lies at the heart of this contradiction. Higher education has the responsibility of creating the capacity for sustainable development...

This study reviews and explores the varying effects of college quality caused by different measure of college quality, including Barron’s ratings, mean SAT scores of entering freshman class, tuition and fees, and Carnegie Classification. Data for this research come from NCES’ Baccalaureate & Beyond study. Results suggest that the estimated effect of college quality is sensitive to the measure o...

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between research data management (RDM) and data sharing in the formulation of RDM policies and development of practices in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: Two strands of work were undertaken sequentially: firstly, content analysis of 37 RDM policies from UK HEIs; secondly, two detailed case studies of institutions with ...

This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.