Value Of Higher Education Research Articles

Educational model for the formation of value responsibility in students of the career of Basic Education of the Metropolitan University

The issue of the formation of values in Higher Education has received a marked interest in recent times, in line with the systematic deepening of the educational-educational work that is developed in this level of education in Ecuador. In the research that was carried out an educational model was elaborated for the formation of the responsibility value in the students of the Basic Education career of the Metropolitan University through the humanistic approach to favor the integral development of the students. To achieve this purpose, researchers articulated the methodology of scientific research through qualitative and quantitative approaches. Using for them the methods and techniques of the theoretical and empirical level. The contribution lies in the contribution to the practice of an educational model for the formation of the responsibility value in students of the Basic Education career of the Metropolitan University. This model is based on a humanistic approach, with consideration of the state, institutional context and policies of Higher Education in Ecuador.

Development of a nationwide consensus curriculum of perioperative medicine: A modified Delphi method

BackgroundAlthough the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognizes the importance of perioperative medicine and medicine consultation, there is no standardized perioperative medicine curriculum for internal medicine and primary care residents. Our objective was to design and implement a nationwide consensus curriculum of perioperative medicine for graduate medical education using a modified Delphi method. Material and methodsWe adopted the five-step modified Delphi method: (1) Online survey to assess current curricula for perioperative medicine; (2) In-person meeting to decide on core topics and teaching methods; (3) focus group of 6 leaders in perioperative medicine to determine objectives, assessment tools, and draft syllabus; (4) 2nd round Delphi to draft curriculum; (5) In-person meeting to discuss and finalize curriculum. The finalized curriculum was piloted as a two-week senior internal medicine elective at an academic health science center. ResultsThe final consensus curriculum is based on the SHMConsults.com modules and consists of 8 objectives and 8 core topics. Assessment tools targets all levels of Miller's Pyramid and includes a pretest, multiple choice posttest, mini-CEX, and critique of written consultation note. Participants rated the curriculum high overall educational value with clear and effective modules and comprehensive and useful evaluation tools. After completing the curriculum, the participants demonstrated improved knowledge and competence for each core principle. ConclusionsThis study used a modified Delphi method to develop a comprehensive curriculum for teaching perioperative medicine. The curriculum successfully increased learning competence in key skills in perioperative medicine. We hope to distribute the consensus curriculum to programs throughout the country.

OpenSeismoMatlab: A new open-source software for strong ground motion data processing

OpenSeismoMatlab is an innovative open-source software for strong ground motion data processing, written in MATLAB. The software implements an elastoplastic bilinear kinematic hardening constitutive model and uses a state-of-the-art single step single solve time integration algorithm featuring exceptional speed, robustness and accuracy. OpenSeismoMatlab can calculate various time histories and corresponding peak values, Arias intensity and its time history, significant duration, various linear elastic response spectra and constant ductility inelastic response spectra, as well as Fourier amplitude spectrum and mean period. Due to its open-source nature, the software can be easily extended or modified, having high research and educational value for the professional engineering and research community. In the present paper, the structure, algorithms and main routines of the program are explained in detail and the results for various types of spectra of 11 earthquake strong ground motions are calculated and compared to corresponding results from other proprietary software.

7th International Conference on Human Values in Higher Education: Education for holistic human health.

The 7th International Conference on "Human Values in Higher Education: Education for Holistic Human Health" (ICHVHE-18) was held from April 26 to 28, 2018, at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan. This conference also celebrated the 50th year of Indo-Bhutan friendship. ICHVHE-18, was the culmination of the collaborative efforts of eight universities, two from Bhutan and six from India. The ICHVHE is an annual conference aimed at developing a shared vision of holistic, humane education, particularly in institutions of higher learning. The initial plan is to implement human values and education for holistic health in higher education within India and other SAARC nations. Delegates from five SAARC nations, viz, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldives, participated in this conference. Ultimately, the effort is to provide universal human value-based education to every child, globally.

Embedding indigenous science knowledge and values in higher education: Critical reflexive practice informed by successful Tongan science learners

As a non-indigenous science educator, I have embraced the idea of critical reflexive practice in order to be more responsive to the cultures and values of my Pasifika students and to become more inclusive of their indigenous knowledges. In this article I share three ways I have negotiated the incorporation of Pasifika values and knowledge into my teaching, based on my doctoral journey. This work is still in progress. My research uses both Grounded Theory and Pasifika (particularly Tongan) methodologies to explore successful Tongan stu dents’ experiences and views of their secondary schooling experience in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tonga and at university-level science studies level in New Zealand. Three examples show how data from my study has shaped my teaching practice. I contend that in order to improve the quality and equity of university science teaching, it makes sense to utilise the culture of students who are struggling in a system dominated by a different worldview.

When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

This paper studies how private equity buyouts create value in higher education, a sector with opaque product quality and intense government subsidy. With novel data on 88 private equity deals involving 994 schools, we show that buyouts lead to higher tuition and per-student debt. Exploiting loan limit increases, we find that private equity-owned schools better capture government aid. After buyouts, we observe lower education inputs, graduation rates, loan repayment rates, and earnings among graduates. Neither school selection nor student body changes fully explain the results. The results indicate that in a subsidized industry maximizing value may not improve consumer outcomes.

Dementors Circling Higher Education: Countering the Administrative Mood (Stimmung) of Empirical Science

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was concerned with our tendency to place greater value on numbers than they ought to have, and in response called for science to return to the “soil” (Merleau-Ponty, 1964) . Other thinkers like Follett, Arendt, and Hummel have hinted that our desire for objectivity might have led us to believe that numbers can not only bring us closer to reality, but that numbers, in fact, provide us with reality. This article explores the overall mood created by the application of limited measures in higher education and uses the image of a dementor, a figure from Harry Potter that pulls or teases at the soul of an individual, to analyze the implications of the current practices of academic administration. It argues that the academic administration’s contextualized “managerial processing and efficiency” response to current political pressures questioning the value of higher education has altered the mood in higher education by pulling at both employees and students by using ideas from empirical science. This response has affected education in a serious way. This manuscript examines things like “bean-counting”—for example, the preoccupation with teaching evaluations, grants, graduation rates, or grades—and asks why they are with us as technologies, the mood they create, and what they could mean for how we understand the meaning of higher education. We write not in believing that we can necessarily escape the powerful mood of empirical science as a political response to waning belief in the value of higher education, but in an effort to develop a counter mood.

Fiddling While Rome Burns? A Response to Weyland on Full Professor Promotions

ABSTRACTThis article responds to the stimulating comments of Kurt Weyland (2015) about the important but seldom discussed full professor promotion process. He suggested a number of problems, particularly candidates who are too eager to “go up” and institutions with insufficiently rigorous publication standards. Rather than proposing a top-down solution, Weyland urged associate professors to wait until they cleared a high research bar. By contrast, I see few systemic problems with the current promotion process. Although research is important, our academic ecosystem requires the valuing of a wide range of faculty activities and contributions. In addition, asking faculty to jump through even more research hoops may be ‘fiddling while Rome burns.’ It overlooks the crucial issue that we all face: making the case for the value of higher education to taxpayers, parents, lawmakers, students, employers, philanthropists, voters, and society. I am optimistic that we can do so, but it may require a new set of academic priorities—less of the status games that can animate our academic lives and more of a focus on how our work benefits society.

Book Review: Public universities, managerialism and the value of higher education

Book Review: Public universities, managerialism and the value of higher education

The internet as a source of knowledge about soil cover of Poland

Abstract The aim of this paper is to assess the quality and correctness of information on Polish soils available on selected websites. Particular attention was paid to educational portals, which became the subject of evaluation of the information its contains in terms of the correctness, up-to-dateness and reliability. Twenty-five websites representing educational portals and blogs were selected for analysis in terms of their contents (type of subject matter) correctness (substantial value), curentness (presence of up-to-date information) and completeness. Most of the information on the evaluated educational portals is targeted at high school students. These websites present only basic content. The most frequent issues on the analyzed portals were: soil types and soil systematics, distribution of soils in Poland, definition of soil and also soil valuation classes. Websites addressed to university students constitute a decided minority, could be said, that even an exception. One of those is article on Wikipedia, which has the highest educational value among all analysed websites.

Academic Advisors as Valuable Partners for Supporting Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is a fundamental value in higher education. Due to the increased ease of access to all types of information through social media and the internet, the lines have become blurred on what is can be “borrowed” and used. Recent proliferation of contract cheating has only reinforced that integrity cannot be just the responsibility of the Dean’s Office or the Academic Integrity offices. Advisors and learning strategists who see students regularly, can ubiquitously play a valuable role in integrating academic honesty into their conversations and workshops. This can be achieved in collaborations with campus partners on campus wide programming, starting early with integrating the conversation about honesty in academic orientations for new students and parents, and when having difficult conversations about study success and academic decision-making.

Fourth Year Medical Students Perceive High Educational Value to Innovative Geriatric Pharmacology Educational Tools Integrated into a Clerkship Elective

BackgroundSeveral studies support that integrating pharmacotherapeutics education into clerkships can enhance clinical pharmacology knowledge and reinforce concepts essential to learners as they transition into prescribers, but little data is available on effective approaches to implement educational activities in time compressed and/or remote site clerkships. In terms of specific topics, the AAMC has indicated that improvements in vertically integrated geriatric pharmacotherapy are especially critical given the prevalence and morbidity/mortality associated with geriatric prescribing errors. To solve this problem, we developed electronic interactive geriatric pharmacology self‐learning module (SLM) tools covering geriatric principles, practical therapeutics, and guides on writing a geriatric medication review and utilizing appropriate geriatric prescribing resources. We integrated the resources into a fourth year (M4) case‐based geriatric elective.PurposeThe goal of this pilot study was to evaluate learner perceptions of the educational quality and effectiveness of these innovative resources in enhancing the following themes: 1) Understanding 2)Awareness 3)Confidence in geriatric prescribing and medication reviews 4)Attitudes toward geriatric prescribing.MethodsTo determine baseline attitudes and confidence about geriatric pharmacotherapy, 9 M4 students selecting the elective were administered a Likert survey (anchored 1–5 where 1=definitely no and 5=definitely yes). After completing all interactive pharmacology electronic activities and two computer case geriatric medication reviews, students then completed a second Likert survey with 12 questions addressing themes on educational value of the learning tools and 8 geriatric pharmacology knowledge questions.ResultsA preliminary data analysis showed learners strongly agreed that the SLMs and electronic resources enhanced understanding, increased awareness of complexity and patient safety, and changed attitudes on geriatric prescribing as well as utilization of geriatric therapeutic resources. Learners mostly agreed that they improved geriatric prescribing confidence. Learners valued the design of the SLMs as well, with most agreeing they were convenient, efficient, clinically relevant, and interactive. Performance on geriatric pharmacotherapy questions also improved.ConclusionsOur findings support that the geriatric pharmacotherapy SLMs were effective. M4 learners also perceived high educational value to the educational activities. They liked the convenience, flexibility, self‐regulation, and electronic distribution features given they completed the elective remotely. In addition to increasing understanding and awareness of geriatric prescribing complexity and patient safety, learners strongly agreed that the educational activities improved their ability to write geriatric medication reviews and utilize geriatric resources essential to wise medication management. Many perceived that the experience would impact their attitudes and approaches in managing elderly patients. In conclusion, these pharmacology electronic resources are an effective and feasible vertical integration approach to improve complex geriatric therapeutic education during clerkship.Support or Funding InformationThis project was funded by a University of Central Florida College of Medicine Innovations in Medical Educations Grant.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Editorial Volume 9, Issue 2 2018

Welcome to our second issue for 2018. In February we opened the year with the publication of Volume 9(1), a special issue dedicated to the top papers from the 6th Biennial National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA) Conference which was hosted by Southern Cross University at the Gold Coast, Australia in December 2017. Shortly after this Conference, the Australian Government announced that undergraduate funding was to be capped at 2017 levels, effectively stopping the demand driven funding system for high education in Australia. With that backdrop Volume 9(1) was a timely opportunity to consider the impact of disruption, and as perceptions of the value of higher education are challenged, to reiterate the value of supporting access and equity to higher education institutions.

Teaching Assessment: Preparing our Colleagues Through Graduate Education

AbstractThis chapter provides a framework for grounding social justice principles at the center of learning in higher education program assessment and evaluation courses. Pedagogical reflections are drawn from the classroom experiences of three faculty of color who represent diverse institutional, programmatic, and geographic contexts. Their advanced framework incorporates theories of experiential learning, critical pedagogy, and problems of practice. It further explains how these notions might converge to foster a social justice‐centered approach to graduate instruction of assessment and evaluation for higher education and student affairs. The authors incorporate excerpts from course syllabi and lesson plans to demonstrate how this framework better integrates social justice principles with the practice of assessment; two concepts commonly treated as separate pedagogical entities. This chapter will inform faculty in higher education and student affairs graduate programs, institutional researchers, and practitioners committed to advancing assessment practices that embrace social justice as a core value in higher education.

Esophageal obstruction due to a right-sided Zenker diverticulum

A Zenker's or pharyngoesophageal diverticulum may represent a rare cause of upper digestive obstruction, or more often, cervical dysphagia, regurgitations and cough. It develops most often on the posterior left side of cervical oesophagus in elderly patients, and depending on the severity of clinical symptoms may warrant surgical or endoscopic treatment. For large lesions with a difficult endoscopic access to the diverticular neck, surgery is recommended. In our case, we illustrate a giant right-sided Zenker's diverticulum responsible for complete aphagia in a 78-year-old male patient. Open surgery by right cervical approach, with diverticulopexy and cricopharyngeal myotomy was performed, with an uneventful recovery. This paper presents with preoperative and intraoperative illustrations of high educational value for this, often underdiagnosed, clinical entity.

Wstrzymanie wykonania zastępczej kary pozbawienia wolności w trybie art. 65a k.k.w.

Suspension of the execution of the alternative custodial sanction pursuant to Art. 65a of the Executive Penal CodeThe suspension of the execution of the custodial sanction under alternative sanction presents a high educational value as well as it reduces the incarcerated population and budgetary expenditures in this regard. It is therefore a perfect alternative to the alternative custodial sanction. An essential precondition for the commencement of proceedings for suspension of the execution of the alternative sentencing is a written declaration by the offender about his subjection to the execution of the community sentence and to rigours related to it. Considerations undertaken are based on the solution provided for in Art. 65A of the Executive Penal Code, besides include a dogmatic analysis, focused on the assessment of the character of the institution which is subject of this article. The author notes the absence of legislative consistency — in the context of the ratio legis of the analysed solution — considering the fact, that the title construction is based exclusively on the Court’s discretion.

Consideraciones acerca de la formación de valores en la Educación Superior

The formation of values in higher education is a subject of great importance and validity; however, the necessary levels of systematization in the work with this content of the general and professional culture, which guarantees in the future specialists high levels of commitment, expressed in their way of thinking, feeling and acting, are not yet reached. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to offer a characterization of the process of formation of values in higher education. The application of methods such as observation, interview and survey reveals the need for teachers to study this training process in depth, as well as its integration into the classroom.

Why bother with values in Higher Education?

Why bother with values in Higher Education?

Accreditation Effect on Quality of Education at Business Schools

Quality is considered as an instrument to achieve excellence in all areas more specifically in education. Academic excellence has been a central value in higher education. Accreditation is raised to develop and enhance the quality of education in academic world. Nowadays there are many accreditation bodies in all around the world. AACSB, EFMD and AMBA are highly integrated accreditation agencies specialized for business schools. General presumptions regarding the standards and quality of those institutions are to facilitate continuous quality improvement in education by assessing any business school or management program. Main purpose of this research paper is to investigate the relationship between quality of education and accreditation by exploring the effect and benefits of accreditations in higher education institutions. This research found out that accreditation agencies are encouraging business schools to make themselves accountable for improving and enhancing the quality of education by impactful and intellectual contribution and scholarly education. In order to achieve that accreditation bodies have to set specific standards and criteria, self-evaluation, peer review and consultation services that determine business schools to meet the standards. The paper also observed positive effects of accreditation on students, faculty members and public in general.

Cognitive theories and paradigmatic research posts in the function of multimedia teaching and learning

At present it is almost impossible to imagine formal and non-formal education without the use of computers and information and communication technology (ICT), and we can rightly say that modern education is increasingly taking place in a multimedia environment and relying on multimedia teaching and learning. In fact, multimedia with its existence and progress continually poses new challenges to educational technology, but also to the teaching process itself. As a result, classical traditional learning and teaching leaves classrooms, while parallel to that, multimedia becomes an unavoidable segment in the process of acquiring knowledge. The multimedia display provides a better understanding and understanding of teaching content that can be presented in many ways, and which gives a higher educational value. The focus of work is the importance and contribution of the theory of multimedia learning with a focus on activating cognition among students, as well as an analysis of the effectiveness of the use of media in teaching. Also, a special emphasis in the work is focused on the analysis of qualitative and quantitative research methods and techniques for examining the role, significance and efficiency of multimedia teaching and learning in the educational process.