The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated change in the higher education sector across the globe and has required huge efforts and commitments on the political, institutional and individual level. During this period higher education was considered, maybe more than ever, as an essential sector. Providing critical information and, contributing to the delivery of scientifically based solutions to help societies overcome this global crisis, universities also simultaneously maintained core educational activities to secure the academic future of the next student generation. This required a high level of innovation, adaptivity and creativity. The book is centred on three main themes linked to transformation and change in higher education: digitalisation, quality and trust. The transformative power of the pandemic has raised concerns and questions of each of them.
Bruno Broucker, PhD, is guest professor at the KU Leuven and higher education policy advisor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is member of the executive committee of EAIR and Series Editor of the book series Higher Education: Linking Research, Policy and Practice.
Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education at Ulster University, United Kingdom. She is Secretary of EAIR, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and an honorary member of the British Association for Comparative and International Education. Her work focuses on neo-liberalism in higher education, gender, mergers and linkages.
Clare Milsom is academic registrar at the Liverpool John Moore University. She is a National Teaching Fellow and is involved in the QAA review of the Higher Education credit framework for England. Clare has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is known for her work on the evaluation of survey qualitative data.
3 Digital Transformation in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: The Quality Digital Literacy We Need
âTheodor Leiber
4 Challenges on the Digitalisation of the Universities in the European Higher Education Area: The Case of Germany
âUwe Cantner, Helge Dauchert, Katharina Hölzle and Christopher Stolz
PART 2: Quality
5 âPositive Mind Monitorâ: The Development of a Mental Compass to Enhance Student Wellbeing by Using Data-Feedback
âJessica Nooij, Lieke van Berlo and Lotte van Dijk
6 An Evidence-Based Framework for Transforming Higher Education Programs and Processes
âVictor M. H. Borden and Seonmi Jin
7 Professional Development; Creating an Arena for Pedagogical Reflections among Academic Staff: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study among Learning Teachers at Nord University, Norway
âElisabeth Suzen, Oddlaug Lindgaard and Gunnar Grepperud
8 Performance Agreements in Denmark, Ontario and the Netherlands
âBen Jongbloed and Harry de Boer
9 Helping Students in the COVID Crisis: Drawing Conclusions Utilising Business Intelligence Data as a Quality Management Tool
âSara-I. Taeger, Stephanie Albrecht, Daniel Thiemann and Tilo Wendler
PART 3: Trust
10 Trust during an Era of COVID-19: An Analysis of British Higher Education
âRosalind Pritchard
11 Innovative Higher Education Institution or Innovator in the Higher Education Institution? An Analysis of the Influence and Interplay of Frame Conditions and the Person-Specific Innovative Ability
âCindy Konen
12 Community-Based Professional Development of Higher Education Teachers in Times of Transformation
âSilke Masson and Tamara Zajontz
13 Rethinking Quality and Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
âMatt OâLeary, Tony Armstrong, Victoria Birmingham, Amanda French, Alex Kendall, Mark OâHara and Katy Vigurs
This volume belongs to the book series âHigher Education. Linking Research, Policy and Practice.â It is of interest to scholars, professionals, practitioners and policymakers in higher education.