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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated change in the higher education sector across the globe and has required huge efforts and commitments on the political, institutional and individual level. During this period higher education was considered, maybe more than ever, as an essential sector. Providing critical information and, contributing to the delivery of scientifically based solutions to help societies overcome this global crisis, universities also simultaneously maintained core educational activities to secure the academic future of the next student generation. This required a high level of innovation, adaptivity and creativity. The book is centred on three main themes linked to transformation and change in higher education: digitalisation, quality and trust. The transformative power of the pandemic has raised concerns and questions of each of them. Contributors are: Stephanie Albrecht, Tony Armstrong, Victoria Birmingham, Victor Borden, Bruno Broucker, Uwe Cantner, Helge Dauchert, Harry de Boer, Caterina Fox, Amanda French, Katharina Hölzle, Gunnar Grepperud, Seonmi Jin, Ben Jongbloed, Alex Kendall, Cindy Konen, René Krempkow, Anne-Kristin Langner, Theodor Leiber, Oddlaug Marie Lindgaard, Silke Masson, Clare Milsom, Jessica Nooij, Mark O’Hara, Matt O’Leary, Pascale Stephanie Petri, Rosalind Pritchard, Christopher Stolz, Elisabeth Suzen, Sara-I. Täger, Daniel Thiemann, Lieke van Berlo, Lotte J. van Dijk, Katy Vigurs, Tilo Wendler, and Tamara Zajontz.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Transformation Fast and Slow: Digitalisation, Quality and Trust in Higher Education Bruno Broucker, Rosalind Pritchard, Clare Milsom and René Krempkow PART 1: Digitalisation 1 COVID-19: Challenges of the Virtual Classroom: Satisfaction, Motivation and Burnout in Online Teaching Caterina Fox and Anne-Kristin Langner 2 Digital Competences of Students: How They Are Assessed and What They Can Contribute to Study Success René Krempkow and Pascale Stephanie Petri 3 Digital Transformation in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: The Quality Digital Literacy We Need Theodor Leiber 4 Challenges on the Digitalisation of the Universities in the European Higher Education Area: The Case of Germany Uwe Cantner, Helge Dauchert, Katharina Hölzle and Christopher Stolz PART 2: Quality 5 ‘Positive Mind Monitor’: The Development of a Mental Compass to Enhance Student Wellbeing by Using Data-Feedback Jessica Nooij, Lieke van Berlo and Lotte van Dijk 6 An Evidence-Based Framework for Transforming Higher Education Programs and Processes Victor M. H. Borden and Seonmi Jin 7 Professional Development; Creating an Arena for Pedagogical Reflections among Academic Staff: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study among Learning Teachers at Nord University, Norway Elisabeth Suzen, Oddlaug Lindgaard and Gunnar Grepperud 8 Performance Agreements in Denmark, Ontario and the Netherlands Ben Jongbloed and Harry de Boer 9 Helping Students in the COVID Crisis: Drawing Conclusions Utilising Business Intelligence Data as a Quality Management Tool Sara-I. Taeger, Stephanie Albrecht, Daniel Thiemann and Tilo Wendler PART 3: Trust 10 Trust during an Era of COVID-19: An Analysis of British Higher Education Rosalind Pritchard 11 Innovative Higher Education Institution or Innovator in the Higher Education Institution? An Analysis of the Influence and Interplay of Frame Conditions and the Person-Specific Innovative Ability Cindy Konen 12 Community-Based Professional Development of Higher Education Teachers in Times of Transformation Silke Masson and Tamara Zajontz 13 Rethinking Quality and Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Matt O’Leary, Tony Armstrong, Victoria Birmingham, Amanda French, Alex Kendall, Mark O’Hara and Katy Vigurs
