Institutional Mission Research Articles

IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE SYSTEM OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

Mobile learning is analyzed as an organization and solution of problems for complex, systematic informatization of educational activities and the implementation of measures aimed at integrating educational, scientific and managerial activities of an educational institution for the training of competitive specialists who possess a professional specialty based on modern information and telecommunication technologies. It is shown that the implementation of mobile learning involves solving a number of tasks; the development of mobile learning tools forces a new look at the technologies for implementing distance learning. The mission of an educational institution that implements mobile learning is to realize the transition from an industrial society to an information society, to use a network information and educational environment, to provide open and distance education throughout life or work based on new information and telecommunication technologies. Such an educational institution offers educational services based on a combination of network, video interactive technology and wireless access to resources, anytime and anywhere. The author's view on the formation of the mobile learning system in open distance education consists in the formulation of key provisions, which we include: the vision of mobile learning; the goal of an educational institution implementing mobile learning; purpose and tasks of mobile learning in open distance education; mobile learning technologies; didactic possibilities, properties and functions of mobile learning; multimedia core as a basis and carrier of mobile learning knowledge. As part of the research, we formulated a vision of mobile learning in an educational institution, which we understand as an ideal picture of the future, as a state that can be achieved under the most favorable conditions.
 Keywords: e-learning technologies; distance education; mobile learning; educational process; interactive learning; information and communication technologies; electronic training courses; LMS Moodle

Faculty development: the need to ensure educational excellence and health care quality

The definition of faculty development has been refined and expanded over the past few decades, and various definitions have been used in higher education. Initially, faculty development was defined as activities that help teachers improve teaching skills, design better curricula, and improve the organizational environment for education. Since then, as the focus of faculty development has shifted from individual professors to institutional needs, faculty development is now defined as the personal and professional development of professors, clinicians, researchers, and managers to meet institutional goals, visions, and missions in social terms and moral responsibility to the community. Faculty development in medical education is universally needed to recognize and cope with widespread changes in education, including the traditional role of professors, advances in pedagogical theory, changes in learning styles, innovative curriculum models, and evaluation philosophy. However, critics have pointed out that most universities could not actively implement faculty development or accept professors’ various demands. In this paper, various reports related to faculty development are reviewed to summarize how faculty development has progressed and present future directions for accepting various opinions to improve educational excellence and the quality of health care.

Mediating the performance of social organizations in context of social and organizational innovations in China.

Social and organizational innovations are one of the most effective ways to gain social collaboration for effective, rapid, and coordinated interventions. An analysis of the relationship among organizational performance (OP), social innovations (SI) and organizational innovation (OI) in social organizations (SOs) is little discussed in the literature and much less with main component analysis. This paper is an effort to provide some empirical evidences about social and organizational innovations that social organizations in China have implemented to address the social issues of the society. A survey of Chinese SO's is conducted during beginning two months of 2022 in provinces of Jiangsu, Guangdong and Zhejiang to attain the statistics and assessing the insights of the executives of the SOs participating in this study with respect to organizational performance, social and organizational innovations. The technique used to select the sample is a non-probabilistic sampling and multiple linear regression model is applied to determine the partial impact of organizational innovations and social innovations on the organizational performance. The grouping of the variables is carried out through main components analysis. The empirical findings of the study highlight that Chinese SOs are innovative because they adopt management strategies to address the social issues associated with their institutional mission. There are four groups of derived components from organizational and social innovations based on the empirical evidence: SO's innovative activities to modify the environment; inside innovative measures to enhance SO's performance; innovative activities of SO's to enhance their relationships with outside actors; innovative measures to improve the management of SOs related to their mission and institutional projects. The findings of this study offer an efficient solution to government and policy makers for involving SOs in terms of planning of social development in China. The social and organizational innovations are very necessary to overcome the social issues so government should encourage the establishment and sustainability of social organizations.

Offer cohorts for adult learners by balancing institutional mission and finances

CHICAGO — Studies show that adult learners tend to do better in pursuing higher education when they make personal connections with your campus — and with their peers. At George Fox University in Portland, Oregon, cohorts have facilitated successful connections between adult learners and its institution, and helped boost retention and completion rates.

Academic Pursuits and Involvement in Decision-Making: Study on the Formation of U.S. University Think Tanks

This paper analyzes the concept of think tanks and concludes that think tanks have three basic characteristics. Firstly, they are based on academic research, relatively independent operation, and aim to serve scientific decision-making. Taking Ivy League think tanks as an example, this paper provides a preliminary discussion of ways for think tanks to maintain the scientific nature of their research, maintain the independence of their operations, and disseminate research results to enhance their influence. It covers institutional mission, research team construction, institutional governance, fundraising, achievements and activities, and alumni networks. This paper proposes a framework of university think tank generation paths associated with the essential characteristics of think tanks. The paper points out that, as a research consulting organization grown out of universities, university think tanks must maintain the scientific nature and independence of research while providing support and services for decision-making. Only in this way can they truly serve scientific and democratic decision-making, gain the trust of the public and have a real lasting influence.

BENTUK PENGEMBANGAN SDM DI LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

The existence of human resources in an Islamic Education Institution plays a very important role in realizing the vision, mission, goals and objectives of an Islamic Education Institution. So it requires maximum management, development and empowerment to create a quality Islamic Education Institution. In management science there is study material on forms of HR development for Islamic Education Institutions, which aims to ensure that Islamic Education Institutions carry out their role in improving the quality of education. As we all know, the stages that management goes through in general are POAC (Planning, Organizing, Action, Controlling). So Islamic Education Institutions must have a proven strategy for creating POAC in developing human resources well, including: 1) creating a planning design; 2) the existence of a teaching staff development program; 3) implement the planned program; 4) carry out process evaluation. The process of developing human resources in Islamic Education Institutions has at least four phases, including: 1) Diagnostic Phase; 2) Design Phase; 3) Implementation Phase; 4) Evaluation Phase. The strategies and phases above need to be passed by Islamic Education Institutions with the aim of being able to lead each Islamic Education Institution towards improvement and improvement of superior quality and achievement.

MANAJEMEN PEMASARAN PONDOK PESANTREN

The purpose of this study was to describe the natural setting, marketing planning for Islamic boarding schools services, organizing Islamic boarding schools services marketing, implementing Islamic boarding schools services marketing, supervision of Islamic boarding schools services marketing, Islamic boarding schools marketing mix strategy, and results of service marketing at the Nuruzzaman Islamic Boarding School, Bandung City. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques were carried out using interviews, observation, documentation studies and copying. Whereas in analyzing the data used is purely descriptive interpretation and data validity tests are carried out by extending participation, observation persistence, negative case analysis, adequacy of references, detailed descriptions, triangulation, peer examination, member checking and auditing. The results of this study indicate that Service Marketing Management at the Nuruzzaman Islamic Boarding School in Bandung City in terms of marketing is an educational institution that predominantly uses indirect marketing, namely through websites, Facebook, and other applications. Educational marketing planning is carried out every time before the acceptance of new students including the formulation of the institution's vision and mission, market segmentation and placement, product positioning, and educational marketing pricing. Educational Marketing Organization is carried out to develop a marketing organization and develop its members. The implementation of educational marketing is carried out in a committed manner in accordance with the rules that have been planned including promotion and communication as well as delivery or distribution. Supervision of educational marketing is carried out to discuss oversight of annual plans, oversight of profitability, oversight of efficiency and oversight of educational marketing strategies as material for recommendations for further marketing. Promotion and communication is carried out through advertising/online, word of mouth, public relations, and direct marketing as well as delivery or distribution. The result of education marketing management is an increase in the number of applicants from year to year.

Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders

ABSTRACT This Special Issue represents an effort to go beyond a narrow notion of knowledge exchange (KE) and explicitly address broader questions related to the measurement of and incentives towards KE in Higher education institutions (HEI). Specifically, we bring attention to a number of under-researched topics in the literature. These relate to: (i) The participation of a diverse set of academic actors in KE activities – in particular, academics in emerging economies and women academics – whose role in KE is insufficiently investigated in the extant literature; (ii) academics’ engagement with under-explored KE stakeholders, specifically policymakers and the public sector; and (iii) the tensions and tradeoffs that are implicit, but often unacknowledged, in the relationship between HEIs’ traditional teaching and research activities, and KE as a third institutional mission.

The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK

ABSTRACT This study analyses the effect of a change of focus in a traditional mission (teaching) of higher education institutions (HEIs) on the variety and intensity of knowledge exchange (KE) activities. In doing so, it bridges two partially disconnected streams of the literature in science and innovation focusing on HEI missions and heterogeneity in HEI KE activities. The work relies on a longitudinal dataset from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) comprising information on publicly funded research projects over the 2006–2013 period. Our identification strategy exploits the change in tuition fees following a 2012 reform to proxy for the increased attention to the teaching mission of English and Welsh HEIs compared to other HEIs in the UK. Results show a strong negative effect of the increase in tuition fees on the variety and intensity of KE activities by English and Welsh HEIs. Following the reform, applications for competitive research funding by English and Welsh HEIs did not change in terms of grant length, value and the number of collaborating partners.

Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives of Bachelor Of Industrial Technology And Graduate School Programs Of Marikina Polytechnic College: Stakeholders Awareness And Acceptability

Vision, Mission, Goals, and Objectives of an educational institution are its main framework for planning and guide in the execution of its program among its clientele. It necessitates that stakeholders of an institution are aware of and accept their VMGO. This study utilized a descriptive method of research and administered a survey questionnaire on the awareness and acceptability of the Vision and Mission of the college and the Goals and Objectives of the Bachelor of Industrial Technology and Graduate School programs (Doctor of Education in Educational Management, Master of Education, Master of Arts in Teaching and the Master of Technician Education using voluntary response sampling. The data revealed that the collective level of awareness and acceptance of the VM of the college and the GOs of the BIT program from its alumni and students, industry partners, faculty members, non-teaching staff, and administrators are to a High Extent as evidenced by their Grand Mean of 4.16 and 4.23 respectively. On the other hand, the collective level of awareness and acceptability of VM of the college and GOs of Graduate School programs from Ed. D. students, GS Faculty, M. Ed. Students, MAT Alumni, MAT students, Non-teaching staff, Administrators, and MTE students are at Very High Extent as evident by their Grand Mean of 4.60 and 4.67 respectively. These data implied how much they are aware of and how much they accepted the Vision and Mission of the college and the Goals and Objectives of the concerned programs among its stakeholders. It is suggested that the conduct of a qualitative study relative to VMGO must be done for future reference. Keywords: VMGO, Industrial Technology, Graduate School, Awareness, Acceptability

Being an Author, Corresponding Author, Academic Reviewer and Editor on International Journals: Tips and Tricks

Scientific publication is an institutional mission or a main task for a Higher Education Institution yet often negrelected by academics, shown in the lack of number and quality publiacation in Indonesia. Scientific research and publication are beneficial for an academc’s personal career promotion, institutional development including accreditation and ranking, personal and institutional collaborations, improvement in student’s body and therefore financial support for further implementation of three main services (Thri Dharma) of higher education institutions in Indonesia.  Publication in the international journal as well as being part of academic reviewer and editorial board enables a wide spread promotion of an academic personal and institution, which may lead to international recognitions and awards.  Publication in an indexed journal or journal with impact factor, although requires greater efforts, influence career development through improvement in rank/level, position and maybe structural positions. A number of indexing services/platforms, each with its database are found in their respective internet sites, two, SCOPUS and WoS, claimed to provide greater and modern or older database of literature collections, released their index lists and become the standard quality measurement of journals until recently. For developing countries including Indonesia, a number of constrains may be limiting the involvement of academics in international level.

Getting Rid of “Church-Related” Colleges and Universities: Applying a New Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide to Protestant Higher Education

Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Although scholars have advanced sophisticated typologies of Protestant and Catholic institutions, we propose that we still need a new means of empirical analysis to determine the degree to which the faith identity of an institution influences important administrative, curricular, and co-curricular decisions. We then apply our Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide (OFIG) to Protestant institutions in the United States to demonstrate the helpfulness of its application.

Globalising or assimilating? Exploring the contemporary function of regionalised global university rankings in Latin America

Global university rankings (GUR) have become increasingly influential as a proxy measure of higher education quality. The more recent development of regionalised forms of rankings has increased their global reach, drawing a greatly expanded range of institutions into their orbit. As a result, regionalised GUR have developed an increasing potential power to shape social perceptions, institutional actions, and everyday academic practices. In this paper, the perceived impact of regionalised forms of GUR is analysed from the perspective of Latin American higher education. Based on a critical meta-synthesis framed by a glonacal heuristic (Marginson and Rhoades, Higher Education 43:281–309, 2002), the tensions arising around the application of regionalised forms of global rankings are mapped. Specifically, the impact of rankings on conceptions of the mission of universities is foregrounded. The meta-synthesis identifies three primary tensions around the regional application of GUR in Latin American contexts: how conceptions of regional higher education quality are most effectively developed, how the local university is imagined under the weight of global expectations, and the relativised value of local agency in assessing quality outcomes. The findings suggest that GUR have created strong fissures in Latin American higher education regarding the missions of institutions, particularly in confronting the powerful hegemonies of the epistemologies of the Global North imposing themselves on Latin American higher education. The paper concludes that the stratification and social anxiety caused by the regional applications of GUR may not be necessarily productive in encouraging regional institutional diversity or in enhancing the local relevance of higher education.

Wanting somewhere else: institutional and department support for foreign-born leadership educators

ABSTRACT Reflective of the growing efforts to advance institutional missions and aspirations of increased internationalization, foreign-born leadership educators (FbLEs) add a global dimension to the student learning experience and the ethos of the academic departments in which they work. Leadership departments, specifically, benefit from multiculturally diverse definitions and perspectives on leadership from FbLEs. Foreign-born leadership educators bring to the classroom different contexts of leadership and leadership dynamics informed by their cultural identities. The ways an academic department chair or university administrators support the FbLE's professional development and transition to the host community have implications on that faculty members success and satisfaction. A qualitative exploration into the experiences of FbLEs reveals inconsistent and insufficient formal and informal networks of support. Many foreign-born leadership educators turn to personal relationships with family and other foreigners to maneuver the challenges of unfamiliar cultural expectations. The findings of the current study may serve academic administrators in more effectively recruiting and supporting foreigners who teach leadership.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SMART SPECIALIZATION STRATEGY

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to determine the major regularities and peculiarities of the educational programmes (EP) development in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) in the context of the implementation of the principles of smart specialization strategy (SSS) and the formation of a number of scientific recommendations for improving the EP. Scientific methods of induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, comparison have been used. The key regularities of the EP development in Ukrainian HEIs such as activation of interaction and development of cooperation between local/regional authorities, business, science and education are determined. The factors of improving the quality of EP in HEIs have been substantiated, such as interaction with regional innovative clusters, taking into account the main principles of the SSS and the introduction of elements of socially oriented training. The structural and logical framework for the development of EP for HEIs in the context of the SSS has been worked out, which takes into account the collaboration between central and local/regional authorities, HEIs and its EP, and regional innovation clusters. It is substantiated that the development of innovative clusters in the Ukrainian regions based on the formation of scientific, research and technological parks will contribute to the successful development of HEIs in view of the formation of creative approaches to their cooperation with the main stakeholders. From the point of view of the SSS, it is determined that in this process it is important to establish effective communications with all participants in the educational process in order to jointly solve social, economic and environmental problems at the regional level. It has been found out that the participation of HEIs in regional innovation clusters will allow them to receive new incentives and opportunities to achieve such major missions as educational, scientific and social development. The system of interrelations between the participants of such a cluster has been outlined, which will contribute to the modernization of the structure and quality of the EP, their adaptation to modern market requirements, the transformation of HEIs and research institutes into factors of innovative business development, accumulation of human capital and attraction of investments. Key words: an education programme, smart specialization, a mission of higher education institutions, a socially oriented training, clusters.

Revolutionizing Health Professions Admissions to Achieve an Inclusive Workforce.

This article describes the "The Admissions Revolution: Bold Strategies for Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce" conference, which preceded the 2022 Beyond Flexner Alliance Conference and called for health professions institutions to boldly reimagine the admission process to diversify the health care workforce. Proposed strategies encompassed 4 key themes: admission metrics, aligning admission practices with institutional mission, community partnerships to fulfill social mission, and student support and retention. Transformation of the health professions admission process requires broad institutional and individual effort. Careful consideration and implementation of these practices will help institutions achieve greater workforce diversity and catalyze progress toward health equity.

Psychological Well-Being Among Medical Laboratory Technology Educators at A Higher Institution in Malaysia

Effective teaching and learning strategies are one of the most important factors in achieving any educational institution's mission and vision. However, to ensure teaching and learning methods are relevant to the curriculum, which is very challenging and complex, educators' psychological well-being plays a vital role in supporting all planning and whatever goals are to be achieved by educational institutions. This study was to explore the views and perceptions of educators from higher educational institutions offering a Medical Laboratory Technology Diploma Program with regards to the contributing factors to psychological well-being. This study employed a qualitative, semi-structured interview to collect data from three selected participants. The data was thoroughly analysed in several procedures before being reported. This study revealed five themes of contributing factors to educators' psychological well-being by sharing relevant perspectives, challenges, and strategies for overcoming them.

Factors Affecting Adoption Intention of Productivity Software Applications Among Teachers: A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation

Teachers play a central role in achieving the mission, vision, and goals of educational institutions. However, the multitude of responsibilities and obligations they must fulfill demands a high level of productivity. Consequently, productivity software is increasingly becoming a necessity for teachers to lessen their day-to-day work pressure and instead focus on offering quality education. Despite their popularity, the key antecedents and precursors affecting the intention to use productivity software have yet to be investigated. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine what factors contribute to the adoption of productivity software by applying the theoretical lens of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). A total of 947 responses from basic and higher education teachers were analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach. Results show that the usefulness and ease of use of productivity software are key in predicting behavioral intention. It is also indirectly affected by external variables such as subjective norms, professional reputation, job relevance, and output quality through perceived usefulness as well as facilitating conditions and self-efficacy through perceived ease of use. Overall, the findings of this study support the applicability of the specific TAM version as well as its employment in the context of productivity software.

Becoming a global citizen: Belief vs. action

Postsecondary institutional mission statements include goals of preparing students to become global citizens. Transformative learning theory is central to global citizenship education (GCE). Many postsecondary institutions provide GCE initiatives through the global competencies approach, which includes self-awareness in intercultural encounters, communications, and general knowledge about world issues. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of global citizenship and general knowledge of international food and agriculture issues. A cross-sectional design and random samples of university members provided data. Differences in perceptions of global civic engagement were found; faculty members were significantly more globally engaged. Graduate students had significantly more awareness of being global citizens. Respondents were unknowledgeable about international food and agriculture. Transformative learning and GCE may be incorporated into postsecondary education by using disorienting dilemmas to promote critical self-examination of worldviews. To enliven university missions of preparing global citizens, we must encourage meaningful actions from local to global levels.

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Today, Ukrainian universities continue to develop internal quality assurance systems, in particular, they form and improve appropriate institutional structures. The different types of organizational management structures of internal quality assurance system in higher education institutions of Ukraine are highlighted in the article. Their features in military higher education institutions are identified. It is determined that: 1) the most successful and widespread management structure of internal quality assurance system in Ukrainian universities is matrix; 2) the main functions of the quality management unit (or structure) are design (planning and organization), coordination, monitoring (control), motivation; 3) the type of organizational structure of the internal quality assurance system is determined by the mission and strategy of the higher education institution, the distribution of management functions among its subjects, the number of main educational units (faculties, institutes). Ten types of organizational structures of internal quality assurance system and a few their derivatives have been allocated. In military higher education institutions, which are characterized by a linear-functional structure of the organization of relationships with a high level of hierarchy, a small and medium number of educational units, the functions of quality management are mainly assigned to the educational and methodological unit, its structural units, or distributed among all structural units and collegial bodies. At the same time, the military higher educational institutions of Ukraine, under the influence of external factors and due to the gradual formation of an academic culture of quality, are transforming their management structures, creating a particular structural unit for quality management.