Saudi Higher Education has started to move with the international trend towards blending face-to-face with online instruction when developing new educational processes. As a contribution to the innovations in Saudi Higher Education, this study explores the perceptions of Saudi female lecturers and undergraduate students towards blended learning from their experience as participants in blended courses. The advantage of blended learning was recognized by the Ministry of Saudi Higher Education as a solution to the challenge of providing college education to the rapidly growing student population. As the move to a blended learning model represents a radical shift in the Saudi educational system, this study shows how Saudi students and lecturers reacted to this change and how it affected the quality of their learning and teaching experience. The objective of the study is to identify Saudi female undergraduate students’ and lecturers’ perceptions of the advantages, challenges and future of blended learning. Consequently, the key factors that influence the lecturers’ and students’ views are discussed, and recommendations for future research, strategy and practice are provided. Qualitative methods were used to obtain rich descriptive data to facilitate the exploration of the phenomena. Based on interpretative philosophy, the data was analysed in the form of explanation and interpretation of the participants’ perceptions of blended learning. The study concludes that blended learning has the potential to offer a successful learning experience in Saudi Arabia. As there are always challenges of adaptation when a new approach is employed, this research provides insight into how the challenges of implementing blended learning in Saudi Higher Education could be addressed. A theoretical blended learning framework is introduced to provide the factors that influence the implementation of blended learning. One of the major conclusions is that a blended learning environment offers Saudi females the flexibility to continue their higher education while maintaining their own cultural values and traditions.

With over 1.5 million adults incarcerated each day in the United States, the development of successful criminal rehabilitation has now become imperative (Public Safety Performance Project, 2010). Higher education has emerged as a potential ‘solution’, with many undergraduate programmes for prisoners boasting lower rates of recidivism than any other rehabilitative programming available. This doctoral research is a mixed methods investigation of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, an undergraduate degree programme operating at a maximum-security correctional facility in the New York State. While most work in the field of prison education asks whether or not participation reduces recidivism, my research set out to discover how students engage with the processes of education – how they use the tools offered by membership in the social world of the prison college to reframe their understanding of their own experiences, what it means for their identities to be college students in the larger context of the prison, and how education changes their day-to-day lives and their plans for the future. My understanding is informed primarily by student writing data, generated through the facilitation of autobiographical writing workshops with two groups of men from the programme. Over the course of two ten-week sessions, students in these workshops constructed narratives describing their experiences in education both before and during their prison terms. These narratives define education as experiences of learning – allowing for inclusion of those lessons taught by the family unit and/or “in the street” – rather than just those activities involving school. The workshop process allowed me to build and maintain a significant degree of participant trust, as well as to ask for more clarification and detail as necessary in order to build a rich and thorough understanding of their stories and experiences. This understanding was also supported by six months’ worth of ethnographic and participant observation data, and a quantitative profile of every student Hudson Link has served during its twelve years in operation. Data analysis using a cultural-historical framework reveals that these students make sense of their lives using tools offered to them by the figured world of the prison college. Reinterpreting past experiences allows them to come to terms with their lives before prison. Identity reconstruction is achieved through guided authoring of personal change narratives, incorporation of education into the sense of self, and discoursal practices of academic English. These constructions of identity are used to reclaim the sense of agency that prison is designed to take away, which in turn influences student and graduate behaviour.

This thesis explores the relatively under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected from both sources is the main focus of discussion. The thesis contextualises the research by presenting a brief description of the university of study and a sense of the social and political context of higher education in the few years preceding the onset of the project. Following this, there is a review of the existing literature around module and curriculum design. A separate chapter outlines the mixed methods employed to collect the data and the form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) used to theme the qualitative data provided by the survey and interviews. The findings supported previous studies, but there was some contradictory data concerning assessment design, the value of the institutional approval procedures, and the usefulness of involving students in the design process. This study found that, as a result of the effect of institutional processes and documents on design, the consequence of changing student profiles (particularly around assessment), and the obligation staff feel to their students (despite their expressed lack of available time and resources), module design (and redesign) is more situation-informed than evidence-informed. It concludes that module designers employ a realistic and pragmatic approach to the process, even when their views, attitudes, and consciences around the rights and wrongs of the design process are sometimes questioned.

This thesis explores the relatively under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected from both sources is the main focus of discussion. The thesis contextualises the research by presenting a brief description of the university of study and a sense of the social and political context of higher education in the few years preceding the onset of the project. Following this, there is a review of the existing literature around module and curriculum design. A separate chapter outlines the mixed methods employed to collect the data and the form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) used to theme the qualitative data provided by the survey and interviews. The findings supported previous studies, but there was some contradictory data concerning assessment design, the value of the institutional approval procedures, and the usefulness of involving students in the design process. This study found that, as a result of the effect of institutional processes and documents on design, the consequence of changing student profiles (particularly around assessment), and the obligation staff feel to their students (despite their expressed lack of available time and resources), module design (and redesign) is more situation-informed than evidence-informed. It concludes that module designers employ a realistic and pragmatic approach to the process, even when their views, attitudes, and consciences around the rights and wrongs of the design process are sometimes questioned. / The full text was made available at the end of the embargo, 26th Oct 2020

Self-organised collaborative wiki work is reality in today’s businesses and students have to be prepared for the resulting requirements. Therefore, the aim of our paper is to demonstrate and to evaluate a way to practice self-organised and loosely coordinated wiki work in higher education. We simulate a common enterprise 2.0 collaboration situation to convey competences in a graduate-level classroom and identify challenges in this context following action research principles. We conclude with a series of insights that help higher education teachers to overcome organisational barriers and provide technical requirements for wiki software engineering.

Ce travail traite de la territorialisation de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (ESR) hors des espaces métropolitains et urbains. La construction de cette thèse repose sur un dialogue théorique et empirique entre deux sphères problématiques : celle relative à la territorialisation de l’ESR et celle relative aux recompositions et crises qui affectent l’action publique locale. Il s’agit, ce faisant, de considérer la territorialisation de l’ESR non plus seulement comme un enjeu ou une variable d’aménagement, mais davantage dans sa participation au développement et à l’action collective sur les territoires. L’auteur suppose ainsi l’existence d’ « opérateurs territoriaux de l’ESR » qui vont chercher à mobiliser les ressources du supérieur dans le cadre des dynamiques collectives locales et de la construction et la valorisation de « ressources territoriales ». Ces « opérateurs » sont considérés comme des « organisations » composites entre « acteurs », « structures », « pratiques » et « démarches » qui vont contribuer à la « stabilisation des interactions » entre territoires et ESR. L’auteur suppose alors que cette stabilisation va contribuer à spécifier les activités d’ESR territorialisées et les rôles qui leur sont affectés. Ce premier niveau d’analyse invite l’auteur à questionner la structuration des relations entre territoires et universités dans une perspective organisationnelle, à la différence de nombreux travaux ayant traité de la synchronisation « cognitive » entre acteurs issus de différentes sphères sociales ou professionnelles. Enfin, ce travail pose la question du rôle des coopérations entre « développeurs territoriaux » et acteurs et activités universitaires. Il analyse alors ces coopérations comme des stratégies d’ « entrepreneuriat institutionnel » permettant à une partie des professionnels des territoires de (se) jouer du flou qui caractérise leur métier et d’en défendre une conception particulière clairement ancrée au sein de l’action collective. En conclusion, l’auteur invite à considérer la territorialisation de l’ESR dans la diversité de ses effets sur les territoires et en sortant d’une vision exclusivement liée à la notion d’excellence. / This work deals with the territorialisation of Higher Education & Research (HER) outside metropolitan and urban areas. The construction of this thesis is based on theoretical and empirical dialogue between two problematic areas: one relating to the territorialisation of HER and the other relating to reshuffles and crises affecting local public action. By doing so, this work proposes to consider territorialisation of HER not only as a planning issue or variable but more in its participation in the development and collective action in the territories. Then, the author assumes the existence of “HER territorial operators” that will seek to mobilize the resources of HER as a part of local collective dynamics and construction and upgrading of “local resources”. These “operators” are considered as « composite organizations » including “actors”, “structures”, “practicals” and “procedures” that will contribute to the “stabilization of interactions” between territories and HER. In turn, this stabilization will contribute to specify territorialized HER’s activities and roles assigned to them. This first level of analysis prompts the author to question relational structuring between territories and universities from an organizational perspective, unlike many studies which have focused on the question of “cognitive synchronization” between actors from different social and professional spheres. Finally, this work questions the role of cooperation between « territorial developers » and actors and academic activities. It reads these cooperations as « institutional entrepreneurship » strategies allowing a part of professionals of territories to play with the vagueness that characterizes their work and to defend a particular conception clearly rooted in the collective action. In conclusion, the author invites to consider the territorialisation of HER in the diversity of its effects on territories and out of a vision exclusively linked to the concept of excellence.

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2015-03-31T14:16:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio M. Galleao.pdf: 2800324 bytes, checksum: 2c116c6b576bf1b760a81ad0fb34a631 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-31T14:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio M. Galleao.pdf: 2800324 bytes, checksum: 2c116c6b576bf1b760a81ad0fb34a631 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-12 / Universidade Católica de Santos - Católica de Santos / In face of a scenario characterized by privatization and mercantilization of education, this study has the purpose of understanding the meaning and pedagogical possibilities of a university class, considered, within this work, as the core element of the formal teaching and learning process. Based on the assumption that the class influences and is influenced by the environment, a bibliographic / documental research of exploratory character was initially developed, aiming at providing foundation to the theoretical assumptions of this subject of study: the university class. That phase was supported by Almeida; Bernheim; Buarque; Chauí; Cunha, L.; Demo; Freire; Imbernón; Masetto; Neves, C.; Nogaro; Rué; Santos; Silva; Snyders; Teixeira; Zabala and Zabalza. The field research, carried out on students of three Engineering night courses from a Higher Education institution in the Baixada Santista Region, highlighted the voice of students regarding university classes. The qualitative approach research was structured in three stages: first, gathering data on the perception of students regarding the classes already attended before this research was established; second, an action research with the purpose of experiencing classes that moved away from the reproductive class model; and a third stage, aimed at providing reflection on the experience lived by the participants of stage 2. The analysis of data collected in the study was based on the dialectical hermeneutics with operational support of Content Analysis. From the methodological standpoint, the work counted on the following authors: Bardin; Bodgan and Biklen; Ghedin and Franco; Lüdke and André; Franco, M. A; Franco, M. L.; Minayo; Thiollent and Tripp. Data analysis made possible to infer that students that took part in this research also bring with them a concept of class that is compatible with the one established from the theoretical studies: the class as spacetime of human formation, based on the active participation of students and professor; a spacetime in which all participants can learn, which provides incentive to the critic spirit, research, reflection, dialogue; a class that allows the attendee to go beyond the contents studied therein, and that seeks a deeper level of learning. At the end of the work, it was possible to reach the conclusion that the class can constitute a privileged spacetime of human formation, despite the complex and contradictory context of Graduate Higher Education currently made available in Brazil. / Diante de um cenário caracterizado pela privatização e mercantilização da educação, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo principal compreender o significado e as possibilidades pedagógicas da aula universitária, considerada, neste trabalho, como elemento central do processo formal de ensino e aprendizagem. Partindo do pressuposto de que a aula influencia e é influenciada pelo meio, desenvolveu-se inicialmente uma pesquisa bibliográfica/documental, de caráter exploratório, a fim de fundamentar os pressupostos teóricos deste objeto de estudo: a aula universitária. Essa fase contou com o apoio de autores como Almeida; Bernheim; Buarque; Chauí; Cunha, L.; Demo; Freire; Imbernón; Masetto; Neves, C.; Nogaro; Rué; Santos; Silva; Snyders; Teixeira; Zabala e Zabalza. A pesquisa de campo, realizada com alunos de três cursos noturnos de Engenharia de uma instituição de ensino superior da Baixada Santista, destacou a voz dos alunos a respeito de aulas universitárias. Sob uma abordagem qualitativa, foi estruturada em três etapas: a primeira para colher dados sobre a percepção dos alunos a respeito das aulas já vivenciadas antes da pesquisa; na segunda etapa, uma pesquisa-ação com o intuito de vivenciar aulas que se afastassem do modelo de aula reprodutiva; e uma terceira etapa com a finalidade de proporcionar reflexão sobre a experiência vivida pelos participantes na etapa 2. Para a análise dos dados colhidos, o estudo utilizou a Hermenêutica-dialética com o apoio operacional da Análise de Conteúdo. Sob o ponto de vista metodológico, contou com o apoio de Bardin; Bodgan e Biklen; Ghedin e Franco; Lüdke e André; Franco, M. A; Franco, M. L.; Minayo; Thiollent e Tripp. Por meio da análise dos dados, pode-se inferir que os alunos participantes desta pesquisa também trazem uma concepção de aula compatível com aquela estabelecida a partir dos estudos teóricos: a aula como espaçotempo de formação humana, baseada na participação ativa de alunos e professor; um espaçotempo em que todos os participantes podem aprender, que incentiva o espírito crítico, a pesquisa, a reflexão, o diálogo; uma aula que permite ir além do conteúdo nela estudado, que busca um nível mais profundo de aprendizagem. Ao final do trabalho, foi possível concluir que a aula pode constituir-se em um espaçotempo privilegiado de formação humana, apesar do contexto complexo e contraditório do ensino superior de graduação atualmente oferecido no Brasil.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-02T17:40:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CELIA ALVES DE LELES.pdf: 1521803 bytes, checksum: cd3e757bb2130fa009ac8627748b5353 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-02T17:40:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CELIA ALVES DE LELES.pdf: 1521803 bytes, checksum: cd3e757bb2130fa009ac8627748b5353 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-10 / The study aims to investigate questions that hinder the growth of small HEIs (Higher Education Institutions). Through field research and institutional evaluation, we sought to compare the results obtained in an evaluation process in the academic community and local, interpreting the reality of small IES-private, located in the interior of Goiás, FAIT (Alliance School), there are 07 (seven) years operates in the field of higher education, as PMIES, with an approximate capacity of 300 students enrolled. This paper compares the standards and guidelines of the National Assessment of Higher Education Institutions System - SINAES / CONAES, from the data collected and analysis by research conducted by ABMES, between the years 2013-2014, and by analysis of research authors like Ristoff and Sobrinho. The analysis began with the lifting of qualitative comparative profile, matching the CPA's (committee for assessment) internal and external of the same HEI (2013), as well as bibliographic data and documentaries, which provided the mapping references and the reality of small private institution in the city of Itaberaí. Then made up his own field research HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) in 2014, through a detailed, organized that provided the search suggestions, projects as alternative to improve the competitiveness of private small IES and midsize, research object. And, based on field research, completed the CPA (internal) in March and April 2013, analyzed the reality of small HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) and the observation of its influence in the IDH (Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano) (Index Human Development) site. The field research addressed together: the questionnaire, application of complementary interviews by CATI methodology (by telephone) and individually, the representatives of the local community, students and alumni of FAIT (Alliance College); already Institutional Evaluation was carried out by the online system through Web Survey, students and employees FAIT (Alliance College). At first, we tried to understand the reality and the assessment of the scenario of Brazilian higher education in relation to research and the actual phase is the establishment of the small college, in the city and region, higher education institution located in the Central region west Goiano. The results achieved in small IES-FAIT, when comparing to research presented by ABMEIS (2013) suggest greater care and support the permanence of small private HEIs in the municipalities, which are installed in view of the importance of these in the IDH (Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano) (Index Human development), despite the financial difficulties they face. For it is clear the influence of PMIES (Small and Medium Higher Education Institution) to local and regional development, with a tendency to increase per capita income and economic of each region, where they are installed. / O estudo tem como propósito investigar quesitos que dificultam o crescimento das pequenas IES (Instituições de Ensino Superior). Através de uma pesquisa de campo e avaliação institucional, buscamos comparar os resultados apurados em um processo avaliativo junto à comunidade acadêmica e local, interpretando a realidade da pequena IES-privada, situada no interior de Goiás, FAIT (Faculdade Aliança), que há 07 (sete) anos atua no ramo do Ensino Superior, como PMIES, com capacidade aproximada para 300 alunos matriculados. O presente trabalho compara as normas e diretrizes do Sistema Nacional de Avaliação das Instituições de Ensino Superior – SINAES/CONAES, a partir dos dados e análises levantados, por pesquisa realizada pela ABMES, entre os anos de 2013-2014, e mediante análise das pesquisas de autores como Ristoff e Sobrinho. A análise iniciou com o levantamento do perfil comparativo qualitativa, combinando com a CPA´s (Comissão Própria de Avaliação) interna e externa da mesma IES (2013), assim como de dados bibliográficos e documentários, que proporcionaram o mapeamento e referências da realidade da pequena IES privada, no município de Itaberaí. Em seguida fez-se a pesquisa de campo da própria IES (Instituições de Ensino Superior), em 2014, através de uma análise detalhada, organizada que proporcionou a busca de sugestões, projetos como alternativos para a melhoria da competitividade da IES privada de pequeno e médio porte, objeto de pesquisa. E, com base na pesquisa de campo, completada com a CPA (interna), em março e abril de 2013, analisou-se a realidade da pequena IES (Instituições de Ensino Superior), bem como a observação de sua influência no IDH (Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano) local. A pesquisa de campo abordou em conjunto: à aplicação de questionário, aplicação de entrevistas complementares por meio da metodologia CATI (por telefone) e individualmente, a representantes da comunidade local, alunos e ex-alunos da FAIT (Faculdade Aliança); já a Avaliação Institucional foi realizada pelo sistema on-line, através de Web Survey, aos alunos e funcionários da FAIT (Faculdade Aliança). A princípio, buscou-se compreender a realidade e o cenário da avaliação da Educação Superior brasileira no que se refere à pesquisa e a real fase que constitui o estabelecimento da pequena Faculdade, no município e região, instituição de ensino superior localizada na região do Centro Oeste-Goiano. Os resultados realizados na pequena IES-FAIT, ao comparar com a pesquisa apresentada pela ABMEIS (2013) sugerem maior cuidado e apoio a permanência das pequenas IES privadas, nos municípios, que estão instaladas, tendo em vista a importância dessas no IDH (Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano), mesmo diante das dificuldades financeiras que enfrentam. Pois, é nítida a influência das PMIES (Pequena e Média Instituição de Ensino Superior) ao desenvolvimento local e regional, com tendência a aumentar a renda per capita e econômica de cada região, a onde estão instaladas.