Innovation in higher education: Actors, policies and pedagogical effects

New missions for universities in the era of innovation: European and global perspectives for excellence and sustainability

“…Within an interconnected process of growth and competition for performance, excellence, and innovation, they are giving rise to new knowledge transfer systems. (Ruano-Borbalan, 2019).…”

“…These discourses and conceptions of valuing innovation have ended up becoming widespread even within the world's leading higher education and education systems (Ruano-Borbalan, 2019) Although still dominated by venerable institutions in the USA and Western Europe (mainly the UK and Northern Europe), the higher education sector has been transposed on a global scale through processes of imitation and replication, and under the effect of a convergence of public policies and the demands of students and families. The emergence of systems as massive as those in China and India, for example, has been and continues to be a major factor in the standardization and unification in societies and economies, under the effect of widespread competition/imitation, in which technological possibilities (digitization) or managerial and organizational innovations (evaluation, quality, etc.)…”

“…(Engvall, 2020) These processes are far from being confined to formerly industrialized countries, and in recent decades have spearheaded the establishment of pedagogical and research frameworks for higher education systems that have become widespread throughout the world. They have led to a form of unification of training (particularly higher education) and management or engineering practices, (Ruano-Borbalan, 2019) and this from Western university forms to developing countries and to China or India.…”

Foreign Language Learning via Online Modular Instruction and Related Variables: A Sequential Explanatory Study

“…In this study, the following factors will be examined: sex (Fixed Factor), parents' educational background (Personal Factors), attitude about online instruction (Skills and Personal Factors), teacher, school, and home factors (Context of Performance and Personal Factors). The value and purpose of the implementation of digitalization in higher education have recently been studied by many researchers (Marshall, 2018;Amhag et al, 2019;Ashilova et al, 2019;Bates, 2019;Phoong et al, 2019;Ruano-Borbalan, 2019;Stefaniak & Carey, 2019;Ha & Im, 2020;Guardia et al, 2021). One significant issue that has dominated the profession for a long time is the ability and willingness of educators to adjust their teaching methods.…”

Gamification Strategies in Higher Education: Leveraging Past in the Era of Pandemic

“…Many universities still strugling deviating from lecture base, the very rudemental and traditional teaching method, to more dynamic and contemporary teaching methods that could help building higher quality cirriculums (Zemsky & Banning, 2013). This struggle stems from either financial burden that comes with the ability to support such changes (Bradley et al, 2011;Lane, 2015), lack of ability to build institutional competencies (Zemsky & Banning, 2013;Ruano-Borbalan, 2019) or combination of them. Therefore, the innovative, yet easily adaptable new teaching styles that would support the prerequisites of modern higher education systems are needed.…”