Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Chile: National and Engineering Dimensions

Letelier, Mario F.; Poblete, Patricio V.; Vázquez‐Carrasco, Rosario; Vargas, Ximena

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0555-0_9

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“…According to Tari (2008) and Calvo‐Mora et al (2006), quality concepts started to gain importance in HE since the early 1990s in developed countries such as the UK. However, although this concept is attracting the attention of academic leaders in many developing countries (Sohail et al , 2003; Billing, 2004; Le and Nguyen, 2009; Jitgarun et al , 2009; Letelier et al , 2009; Natarajan, 2009; Puteh et al , 2009; Valiulis and Valiulis, 2009; Aqlan et al , 2010; Ministry of Higher Education, 2009), the quality movement is still slow in the HE of such countries (Koubâa et al , 2010), especially with the absence of many required conditions for a successful quality implementation (Lim, 1999).…”

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Student perception of higher education quality in Tunisian business schools

Belhaj¹,

Ben‐Ayed²,

Kammoun³

2013

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

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PurposeIn Tunisia there are 23 business schools, five of which are at the University of Sfax. There are no data in the Tunisian higher education literature regarding the difference between these schools, especially in terms of their performance. The aim of this study is to carry out a first‐hand assessment of the teaching process and form an idea about higher education quality in these schools.Design/methodology/approachIn order to achieve such an objective a survey is conducted on students’ perception of their learning experience. The data are collected through a questionnaire administered to samples of students from the different business schools at the University of Sfax.FindingsThe assessment investigation reveals some strengths, such as students’ satisfaction about the knowledge they are acquiring. However, there are several weaknesses including the sceptical attitude of the respondents towards the contents of the courses they are taking and the way they are being evaluated. The findings lead to two main conclusions. First, a culture of self‐assessment is needed in higher education institutions in order to improve the teaching process. Second, higher education institutions need to be more process‐oriented.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first work investigating students’ perception of their learning experience in Tunisia.

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Section: Evolution Of Quality Concepts In Hementioning

confidence: 99%

Student perception of higher education quality in Tunisian business schools

Belhaj¹,

Ben‐Ayed²,

Kammoun³

2013

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

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Developing global teamwork skills: The Runestone project

Pears

Daniels

2010

IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference

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Abstract-The Runestone project is a collaborative course currently offered by Universities in Sweden, Finland, and China. The course provides a unique opportunity for third year engineering students from a variety of programs to experience the opportunities and challenges that international teamwork involves. Teams composed of students from two countries work intensively over a 10 to 13 week project cycle to develop a system which allows a user to remote-control a LEGO NXT robot. The teams negotiate the features of their final system with the academic supervisors from the participating Universities, propose a development time-frame and deliverables, and develop and demonstrate a prototype system. This paper uses teaching and learning findings from engineering education research. The evidence is used to arrive at an instructional design that aligns learning outcomes, with instruction and assessment to support student's learning outcomes development throughout the course, We also discuss the evolution of the course over the past 12 years as we moved from a pilot version with eight students from two universities to a large scale course with between sixty and eighty students from between three and five universities distributed over three continents and widely different educational and social cultures.

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Chile: National and Engineering Dimensions

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Student perception of higher education quality in Tunisian business schools

Student perception of higher education quality in Tunisian business schools

Developing global teamwork skills: The Runestone project

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