Higher education is at a crossroads, facing unprecedented challenges threatening its traditional models and practices. The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with shifts towards self-reliance and restricted student mobility, has created a dichotomy of factors impacting the sector. Institutions must find new ways to attract students and remain competitive in a rapidly changing landscape. Additionally, leaders and managers are grappling with issues such as employee wellbeing, digital transformation, and the need to foster a culture of learning and diversity. Engaging Higher Education Teachers and Students With Transnational Leadership provides a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the future of higher education from a leadership and management perspective. Drawing on real-world examples and concrete advice, it offers insights into critical topics such as employee wellbeing, AI, digital transformation, and student engagement. The book equips leaders and managers with the tools they need to adapt and thrive in uncertainty by exploring new education models, institutional governance, and the impact of new technologies.

Struggling to navigate the complex landscape of agricultural teacher education, scholars face a daunting challenge: the need for a comprehensive research synthesis tailored to their specific needs. While valuable, existing resources often need to provide the focused guidance required to address this discipline's myriad issues. This gap leaves scholars needing a clear roadmap for advancing agricultural teacher education, hindering progress and innovation in the field. Emerging Research in Agricultural Teacher Education revolutionizes the field of education through agricultural research. Offering a comprehensive synthesis of current research and proposing crucial areas for future investigation, this book serves as the definitive solution to the challenges plaguing scholars in the field. Consolidating decades of research and expertise into a single accessible volume, it provides scholars with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of agricultural teacher education with confidence and clarity.

As classrooms move from chalkboards to digital platforms, there's a critical juncture where the potential of AI intersects with the future of academia. The problem is multifaceted — it involves the nature of pedagogy, the demand for personalized learning experiences, and the ethical considerations inherent in deploying AI technologies. Educators, researchers, and administrators face the challenge of navigating this transformation while ensuring inclusivity, fairness, and ethical practice. Integrating AI in higher education risks becoming a chaotic endeavor without a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and ethical dimensions. The lack of a strategic approach could lead to biases, privacy concerns, and a digital divide exacerbating educational inequalities. Enhancing Higher Education and Research With OpenAI Models explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and higher education, focusing on the social sciences. A collaborative team of academics and AI expert's analyses aims to illuminate the transformative potential of integrating AI technologies into traditional educational settings. The book unravels the rich tapestry of the history of higher education in the social sciences, tracing the evolution from conventional blackboards to the modern digital landscape. It meticulously examines the increasing integration of technology in classrooms. It sets the stage for the impact of AI-driven tools and data analytics on pedagogy, personalized learning experiences, and broader access to education.

The world of writing is in constant flux, presenting a challenge to aspiring writers and educators alike. From the rapid evolution of digital platforms to the complex demands of diverse writing fields, staying ahead has never been more critical. Many academic scholars and institutions find it increasingly challenging to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate this shifting landscape successfully. Graduates are often left ill-prepared to thrive in the competitive, dynamic field of professional writing. Best Practices to Prepare Writers for Their Professional Paths addresses the pressing issue head-on. This book serves as the definitive solution for educators, academic scholars, and anyone invested in nurturing the next generation of writers. This comprehensive resource compiles a wealth of research, industry best practices, and real-world experience, ensuring that readers emerge with the proficiency and confidence needed to excel in their chosen writing domains.

Hand-in-hand with the continuing drive to recruit international students to Western universities goes an interest in student engagement. However, it is often unclear exactly what is meant by engagement. This book goes beyond the policy rhetoric to provide a practice-based explication of international student engagement and its enabling institutional conditions. By utilising a social practice conceptual model, the book explains the multiple dimensions of engagement that are often conflated in policy: the antecedents to engagement, the actions of engaging, and the achievements and outcomes of engagement. As a result, the book is able to address issues such as how English comes to matter in international student academic practice; the teaching and assessment approaches that promote international student engagement; and the metacognitive, cognitive and affective strategies that international students use to achieve academic and personal transformation.

International Student Support and Engagement in Higher Education examines innovative practices in campus, academic, and professional support services which serve the various and unique needs of international students seeking undergraduate and graduate degrees. Divided into three sections pertaining to campus, academic, and professional support services, the authors present case studies and original research that examine strategies for how institutions of higher education can operate to promote international student success beyond the classroom. The international range of contributors showcase research from across Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Senegal, Thailand, and the United States. Foregrounding support services with innovative and successful methods for collaborating with one another, the book crucially addresses how the myriad support services available on campuses can work together to support international students and foster a sense of belonging and connection, rather than maintaining a focus on acculturation. It examines the origins of these partnerships, asking whether the services are designed to support the international student community specifically, or to serve the student population more generally. Identifying new emerging trends and with a view to establishing a broad and global context for best practices in international student support, this book will appeal to faculty, researchers, scholars, and scholar-practitioners with interests in higher education, student support services, and international and comparative education.

Educational pedagogy refers to student-centered learning that provides meaningful engagement to directly enhance critical thinking and creativity. This edited collection equips readers to understand and implement impactful creative teaching and learning methods designed to act as a catalyst to improve the learning experiences of students.

Higher education has embraced a period of increasingly rapid development due to the speed of technological advances, increased global competition, an ever more astute and savvier consumer base, and ethical planetary responsibilities. One such educational development is transnational education (TNE). The global pandemic has made TNE a timely topic because traditional international education, which relies on the mobility of staff and students, experienced unprecedented challenges, with borders closed and travel banned. This has presented the international education community with a unique opportunity to reassess the effectiveness and efficiency of transnational activities from a social, ethical, and environmental perspective. The Handbook of Research on Developments and Future Trends in Transnational Higher Education offers a perspective of what the future of TNE may look like, what models of TNE there are, its impact, and what institutions may have to do to be successful moving forward. Universities around the world are growing their TNE partnerships. This reference book explores the benefits TNE can offer universities, staff, and students, while increasing its global outlook and capabilities. It further provides concrete suggestions to readers considering this. Covering topics such as employability skill enhancement, formative assessment, and online higher education, this major reference work is an excellent resource for faculty and administrators of higher education, teacher educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, librarians, and academicians.

As the role and practices of the academic library are evolving, so too is the relationship between the library and other areas of the university. This volume explores the library’s relationship with students, including the library-based learner, creating engaging classroom experiences, the library as an extension of the classroom, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in online education across the world, forcing many to learn remotely. Presenting case studies from authors around the globe, this volume provides College and university personnel with research, theoretical foundations, and best practice to support and engage online learners.