Challenges and Reforms in Gulf Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781032588223 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Opis

This edited volume explores the educational reforms and challenges in higher education in the Gulf countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1 – Understanding Regional Higher Education Reforms in a COVID-19 Context

 

Chapter 1

Potential Reforms in the GCC Higher Education Post COVID-19

 

Chapter 2

Pandemic Upsurge: Insights from Higher Education Reforms in the Gulf

 

Chapter 3

Post Pandemic Quality of Higher Education: NFCFFE Model for Higher Education Quality Improvement and Assurance

 

Chapter 4

Pandemic Challenges of Higher Education: Reconsidering Core Values

 

Chapter 5

Higher Education in the COVID-19 Environment: ICT-based Perspective for GCC Countries

 

Chapter 6

Application of Risk Management on COVID-19 by Universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

 

Chapter 7

Directions in Gulf Higher Education: Conclusion

 

Part 2 – Reframing Higher Education Reforms

 

Chapter 8

An Empirical Analysis of Oman’s Public and Private HEI Students’ Behavioural Intention (BI) in Using E-learning during COVID-19

 

Chapter 9

Transforming Online Teaching of a First-Year Business Course: An Autoethnographic Reflection of Managing Teaching and Learning amidst the Pandemic in the Gulf Region

 

Chapter 10

University of Buraimi in Oman: Pandemic Lessons and Initiatives for Education Reform from Instructors’ Perspectives

 

Chapter 11

The Role of Internal Crisis Communication on Faculty Members’ Implementation of Blended Learning Practices in the Gulf

 

Chapter 12

Impact of Job-related Stress on Professional and Personal Life during Coronavirus Pandemic

 

Chapter 13

COVID-19 and the New Normal: Re-Imagining the Future of Higher Education

 

Chapter 14

Gulf Higher Education Reforms vis-à-vis the Pandemic: Conclusion

O autorze

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan is Fellow, Higher Education Academy, and Fellow, Institute of Science and Technology, UK.

John McAlaney is Professor in Psychology and Chartered Psychologist, Bournemouth University, UK.