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Training to Teach: Exploring the Feasibility of Service-Learning Projects to Prepare Undergraduate Learners to Be Community Health Educators 教学训练:探索服务学习计划培养大学生成为社区卫生教育工作者的可行性

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020021

Melanie A. Gerdes, A. Jones, Deborah S Fetter, Emily S. Sklar, Kristen Stapleton, Lyndsey D. Ruiz, Rachel E. Scherr, G. George

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Higher-Institution-Based Film Festivals as a Vehicle to Improve Student Production Quality and Form University–Industry Connections 以高校为基础的电影节:提高学生制作质量，形成校企联系

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020020

Yong Liu, Mayyer Ling, Florin Nechita

{"title":"Higher-Institution-Based Film Festivals as a Vehicle to Improve Student Production Quality and Form University–Industry Connections","authors":"Yong Liu, Mayyer Ling, Florin Nechita","doi":"10.3390/higheredu2020020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu2020020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will be focusing on discussions on how to use small-scale, higher-institution-based film festivals (including film competitions) as a vehicle to motivate students who are majoring in media and screen production to improve their production quality for both module assignments and competition-targeted special projects. Moreover, this paper will argue that, by inviting industry representatives to be involved in judging and commenting on student works, such small-scale film festivals organised by higher education institutions over time may grow into a platform that not only recognises and supports budding directors, screenwriters, actors, and actresses in Brunei but also acts as a playing field in which novice filmmakers can connect with experts, exchange ideas, acquire valuable skills, and enable further collaboration in the future. Based on first-hand data collection, an analysis, and semi-structured interviews of the multiple parties involved, our discussions cover how to launch the production process for screen-practice-based education, how to organise module assignments to fit the themes of specific film festivals/competitions, and how to overcome the challenges facing students working in a multicultural production team, etc. Two higher-institution-based film festivals, i.e., PRISM UBD Short Film Festival organised by Universiti Brunei Darussalam and the Dracula Digital competition, a mobile-phone filmmaking competition run by Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, are used as analytical case studies.","PeriodicalId":217461,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Higher Education","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128975210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prevalence of Conscientious Objection Policies to Harmful Animal Use in Education at Medical and Veterinary Faculties in Europe 欧洲医学和兽医学院教育中对有害动物使用的良心反对政策的普遍程度

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020019

Miriam A. Zemanova

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Supporting All Educators to Take Part in Teacher Professional Learning for Inclusion 支持所有教育工作者参与教师专业学习，实现共融

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020018

Annet De Vroey, Amélie Lecheval, S. Symeonidou

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A Place-Based Sustainability Approach to Learning about Photovoltaic Solar Energy 基于地点的可持续发展方法学习光伏太阳能

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-04-05 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020017

Marissa H. Forbes, S. Lord

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The Complexities and Benefits of Community-Partnered Projects for Engineering Capstone Design Students 社区合作项目对工程顶点设计学生的复杂性和好处

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020016

Marissa H. Forbes, G. Hoople

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Using Motivation Theory to Design Equity-Focused Learning Analytics Dashboards 运用动机理论设计以股权为中心的学习分析仪表板

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020015

Stephen J. Aguilar

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Information Technology Undergraduate Students’ Intercultural Value Orientations and Their Beliefs about the Influence of Such Orientations on Teamwork Interactions 信息技术本科生的跨文化价值取向及其对团队互动影响的认知

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-24 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2020014

Parsia Bahrami, Yeji Kim, A. Jaiswal, Devang A. Patel, Sakhi Aggrawal, Alejandra J. Magana

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Assessing Service Quality Using SERVQUAL Model: An Empirical Study on Some Private Universities in Bangladesh 基于SERVQUAL模型的服务质量评估:孟加拉国部分私立大学的实证研究

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2010013

Umma Salma Hoque, Nazmoon Akhter, N. Absar, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Abdullah Al-Mamun

{"title":"Assessing Service Quality Using SERVQUAL Model: An Empirical Study on Some Private Universities in Bangladesh","authors":"Umma Salma Hoque, Nazmoon Akhter, N. Absar, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Abdullah Al-Mamun","doi":"10.3390/higheredu2010013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu2010013","url":null,"abstract":"The increased competitive academic environment pushes higher institutions to improve their service quality for meeting the market demands. It is thus necessary to assess the factors that satisfy students and make them loyal to the university. This study has focused on assessing service quality, using the SERVQUAL Model to measure students’ satisfaction with private universities in Bangladesh. In the study, the primary data collection method through a questionnaire with the 5-point Likert scale was adopted to collect data from 229 students who are currently studying in different private universities in Chattogram, Bangladesh. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been performed to analyze the data through the AMOS 22 statistical package. The findings report that a comfortable lecture room under the tangible dimension, providing service on time under the reliability dimension, the capacity of administrative staff to solve immediate problems under the responsiveness dimension, proficient lecturers for teaching and research under the assurance dimension, and focus of university management on students under the empathy dimension have a great influence on student satisfaction. The study concludes that managers and authorities of private universities must focus on ensuring better service quality as student satisfaction largely affects the sustainability and recurrence development of the institutions.","PeriodicalId":217461,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Higher Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116199884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Competency-Based Assessment Practices in Higher Education: Lessons from the Pandemics 高等教育中基于能力的评估实践:大流行病的教训

Trends in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.3390/higheredu2010012

Elena Cano, Laia Lluch, Mariona Grané, A. Remesal

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