Trends in Higher Education, Volume 4, Issue 1

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on health sciences education, and impacted clinical training, teaching methodologies, and institutional practices. Within the higher education literature during the height of the pandemic, several resear...

Scholarship and creative inquiry are a common professional responsibility across academia, regardless of institution type and geographic location. The message is clear—to advance, one must demonstrate success via various metrics such as publica...

This paper explores the impact of technology and wellness in the context of students entering post-secondary education. It aims to provide insights into the use of technology and how it affects students’ wellness. The transition from high schoo...

In the field of language assessment, emphasis is usually placed on widely spoken languages. However, amidst this focus, a multitude of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) remain in obscurity, their potential overlooked and their learners underserv...

Extended Reality (XR) technologies—including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—offer transformative opportunities for education by enabling immersive and interactive learning experiences. In this study,...

Since its inception, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) has preserved student drawings and design projects as educational tools and reference materials. This practice, modeled after the Fine Arts School tradition, led...

First-year university students face mental health challenges like adjusting to independence, forming new friendships and coping with academic pressures. Research highlights mixed findings on social media use; some students use social media to connect...

This review paper aims to highlight the importance of the role of reflection practice of special educators in the inclusion of students with disabilities and special educational needs. Specifically, an attempt at conceptual clarification of reflectio...

The Clay N. Hixson Student Success Center within the College of Engineering at Tennessee Tech University has undergone a transformative upgrade by integrating the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) framework with select Kaizen pri...

Most of today’s educators are in no shortage of digital and online learning technologies available at their fingertips, ranging from Learning Management Systems such as Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle, online meeting tools, online homework, and t...

This work examines the indicators of master’s students’ persistence from 2014 to 2021 at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in the southern United States. Demographic and academic variables were used in a logistic regression model to pr...

The views and practices of teaching mathematics are significantly influenced by the cultural and social contexts, resulting in differences in teaching traditions among countries. Thus, when evaluating the effectiveness of professional development (PD...

The purpose of this project was to examine the impact of participation in an online peer mentoring program on peer mentees in an effort to broaden participation of racially and ethnically minoritized women in science, technology, engineering, and mat...

This collective systematic literature review is part of an Erasmus+ project, “TaLAI: Teaching and Learning with AI in Higher Education”. The review investigates the current state of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in higher edu...

Transitioning from being a student to becoming a professional is challenging even though medical education provides periods of clinical practice and clerkships to support the transfer between university and the future work as a doctor. Using an ethno...