Le dernier numéro de Higher Education Policy (HEP) vient de sortir, présentant plusieurs articles autour du thème de la recherche dans l'enseignement supérieur en Asie orientale.
Sommaire:
--Higher Education Research in East Asia: Regional and National Evolution and Path-Dependencies (Introduction) - Hugo Horta, Jisun Jung et Akiyoshi Yonezawa;
--The Contribution of East Asian Countries to Internationally Published Asian Higher Education Research: The Role of System Development and Internationalization - Jisun Jung et Hugo Horta;
--Boundary Objects and Boundary Brokering to Make the Research-Policy-Practice Nexus Possible: The Case of the Chinese Higher Education Field - Shuangye Chen;
--Higher Education Research Community in Taiwan: An Emerging Field - Sheng-Ju Chan et Ying Chan; Connecting Higher Education Research in Japan with the International Academic Community - Akiyoshi Yonezawa;
--Higher Education Research as a Field of Study in South Korea: Inward but Starting to Look Outward - Jisun Jung;
--Trends and Developments of Higher Education Research in Hong Kong: In Pursuit of a Cosmopolitan Vision - William Yat Wai Lo et Felix Sai Kit Ng.

Autre article:
The Role of Research in Teaching: A Comparison of Teachers from Research Universities and those from Universities of Applied Sciences - Yanjuan Hu, Roeland van der Rijst, Klaas van Veen et Nico Verloop. Voir l'article...

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• Daisy Consortium
• European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education
• European Schoolnet
• Global Initiative of Inclusive ICTs (G3ict)
• International Association of Universities (IAU), and
• UNESCO

are proud and happy to announce the release of Guidelines for Accessible Information. The Guidelines are available free of charge as an open educational resource and are dowloadable in 23 languages. More...

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The latest edition of Higher Education Policy (HEP) has just been released and and is a special edition entitled Higher Education Research in East Asia.
Contents
--Higher Education Research in East Asia: Regional and National Evolution and Path-Dependencies (Introduction) - Hugo Horta, Jisun Jung and Akiyoshi Yonezawa;
--The Contribution of East Asian Countries to Internationally Published Asian Higher Education Research: The Role of System Development and Internationalization - Jisun Jung and Hugo Horta;
--Boundary Objects and Boundary Brokering to Make the Research-Policy-Practice Nexus Possible: The Case of the Chinese Higher Education Field - Shuangye Chen;
--Higher Education Research Community in Taiwan: An Emerging Field - Sheng-Ju Chan and Ying Chan;
--Connecting Higher Education Research in Japan with the International Academic Community - Akiyoshi Yonezawa;
--Higher Education Research as a Field of Study in South Korea: Inward but Starting to Look Outward - Jisun Jung;
--Trends and Developments of Higher Education Research in Hong Kong: In Pursuit of a Cosmopolitan Vision - William Yat Wai Lo and Felix Sai Kit Ng.

Other article
The Role of Research in Teaching: A Comparison of Teachers from Research Universities and those from Universities of Applied Sciences - Yanjuan Hu, Roeland van der Rijst, Klaas van Veen and Nico Verloop. More...