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The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was constituted in Paris in 1998. It was a result of the need for the establishment of a common Higher Education for all the countries of the European Union. Furthermore, the Declaration of Bologna which was signed in 1999 defined the necessary actions for European Universities to adapt to the EHEA. In Greece the first step was put into action in 2005 with...
Due to the rise of MOOC-like courses available from third-party providers, the services universities offer students have the potential to become unbundled. Yet the possible impacts of these changes are not well understood. Few university stakeholders can articulate the actual value students receive from a university education, aside from instruction in their chosen field. How universities are doing...
The last decade there is discussion about methods and means of improving quality of engineering education and about ways to implement them in a high school practice. The authors focus on the question of forming competences in the field of quality management on the example of educational direction “Materials Science and Technology of Materials”. As shown the producing departments often include in the...
In higher educational institutions the student learning process is its central function and one of the main activities. Thus several universities in many countries have a series of fixed exams that are required to graduate from their high schools and colleges. Therefore, the definition of educational/learning process expectations and emphasis that students must achieve after graduation are considered...
Critical thinking is one of the main goals of higher education to ensure that students are competent in the future. The growth of information technology and internet access among students is effective factors to improve the instructional approaches for fostering critical thinking in online environments. Although many researchers have studied on cultivating critical thinking, many do not consider the...
This study has been directed to disclose the attitudes of academic staff in Libyan universities towards Internet-based learning and training. The research for this study has been conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings suggest that faculty members have positive attitudes towards integrating the Internet into the teaching process and an expectation that this will dramatically...
According to The Program Evaluation Standards (1994) published by The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), this study performs a meta-evaluation on the teaching feedback questionnaire (Appendix I) of Ming Chuan University (MCU), Taiwan, through questionnaire analysis in terms of the appropriateness and the indication of the questionnaire items. The participants of this...
This paper describes the research and practice on long-term guarantee system of teaching quality in local colleges. Construction of long-term institution, firstly, it needs develop teaching quality standards in every aspect which must be completely specification, scientific and practical; secondly, it also need to build an efficient, perfect teaching quality monitoring and guarantee system. In this...
It is the necessity of history to practice enrollment expansion and popularized education in China. Enrollment expansion has indeed brought some beneficial effects. However, Chinese mass education should base itself on the reality of China itself as well as be given Chinese characteristics, or problems will arise. This paper comments on the above matter so as to obtain a right way of reform.
According to the new situation of higher education development, analysis of the current problems in the management school roll and discussed the use of modern information technology for electronic registration of the effectiveness of education student status, student status management continuously improve the level of modernization.
Student learning had been the central concern of higher education and accreditation for more than a decade. Many institutions, programs, and accrediting organizations are hearing similar requests about student learning outcomes from a number of sources. The most common request is to provide concrete evidence of student academic achievement and to report on this evidence in a manner that is readily...
This project started as an initiative of a group of university teachers, trying to fulfill the quality requirements requested by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for the university system. During two years, they developed a Code of Good Teaching Practices for the Technical area, which intends to achieve excellence teaching competences and to meet quality criteria. The authors decided to elaborate...
With the great demands for lifelong learning and popularization of higher education, modern distance education has developed significantly in recent years. Therefore, how to ensure its quality, drawn great concern of the academic circles both in China and over the world, has become a vital issue in its development. By collecting Chinese literatures of recent years, particularly from 2006-2007, this...
There are many differences between British and US universities. Nowhere is the difference greater than in the way in which students are assessed. US professors have considerable autonomy in how they set and grade an exam. UK universities implement a complex process that interlocks universities to create a common procedural standard across the country. A UK academic sets an exam and produces specimen...
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