Trends in Higher Education, Volume 5, Issue 3

Evidence on generative artificial intelligence adoption remains limited in Latin American engineering education, particularly for undergraduate populations in which paid employment may shape study practices. This exploratory study examined reported C...

Rapid workforce transformation driven by widespread AI adoption requires online higher education institutions to evolve curriculum design at a greater speed to support diverse learners in acquiring the competencies needed for career transitions in a...

Nowadays, the use of active methodologies in higher education has become increasingly important, particularly in fields such as sports science and physical education, as they place students at the centre of the teaching and learning process. The aim...

This study examined the determinants of both the intention to use and the self-reported use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in academic research by means of a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM), collecting data from...

Evidence regarding the relationships among metacognitive awareness, teacher digital competence, science teaching self-efficacy, attitudes toward science, and experimental science anxiety remains limited. The aim of this study was to examine, through...

Laboratory practices in engineering education, and particularly first-year Physics laboratories, are traditionally considered a cornerstone for acquiring technical competencies. However, this study examines whether the correspondence between laborato...

Teaching excellence has become an increasingly important but contested concept in higher education, shaped by institutional priorities, policy instruments, and changing understandings of pedagogical quality. Teaching awards are widely used to recogni...

The curriculum is the vehicle that drives teaching and learning processes. Regarding the South African teacher education curriculum (SATEC), scholars and researchers are negatively disposed and have contrasting views about its responsiveness to learn...

Engineering literacy research has been dominated by static, competence-based frameworks that fail to explain how attributes evolve dynamically and systematically underrepresent two critical dimensions: engineering consciousness as a cognitive precurs...

The convergence of decoloniality, artificial intelligence (AI), and university classroom practice has emerged as a pressing concern in African higher education. While decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and #FeesMustFall have reignited deba...

Family-related factors play a fundamental role in students’ development. However, the relationship between family-related factors and the acquisition of Learning to Learn (LtL) competence in higher education remains underexplored. This study ai...

Undergraduate residential construction programs face growing pressure to prepare graduates with competencies that reflect evolving workforce expectations. This study develops a preliminary evidence-informed framework for aligning undergraduate reside...

Most computational work on emotional intelligence in education targets students; where the emotional states of teaching staff are modeled at all, the signal is typically a static questionnaire score rather than an input to an automated response. This...

Smart industries base their development, maintenance, and operation on technologies compatible with what is known as Industry 4.0. In this context, the education sector needs the implementation of new learning schemes and environments for conceptual...

Artificial intelligence is converging with labor-market change, the proliferation of alternative credentials, and growing demands for public impact, placing the traditional university model under increasing pressure. This conceptual review argues tha...

Research increasingly examines initial access to higher education (HE) in sub-Saharan Africa, yet less is known about the persistence of enrolled students in fragile contexts where costs are high and outcomes are uncertain. This study provides the fi...

Adjustment to university unfolds over time, whereas a single-time-point survey can describe only concurrent patterns in students’ experience. This exploratory, descriptive study examined first-year students’ overall appraisal of group wor...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has moved from an emerging educational tool to a structural challenge for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) higher education. This narrative review argues that the most consequential e...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has intensified concerns about academic integrity, yet little is known about discrepancies between students’ self-reported frequencies in AI-assisted academic cheating and the frequencies they attribut...

First-year students in STEM programs face significant academic and personal challenges that can undermine retention and success, particularly for those navigating new institutional environments without prior college experience. While self- regulated...

Emerging technologies provide promising opportunities to improve learning in construction and engineering education. In the current study, the interaction between students and AI-enhanced educational podcasts in undergraduate and postgraduate modules...

Students at creative higher education (CHE) institutions frequently report boundary violations and other forms of misconduct, while prevention efforts have been described as insufficient. Drawing on a capabilities-informed perspective attentive to th...

Motivation is a key predictor of success in second language (L2) acquisition, yet how culture and identity shape it among Latin American learners remains under-examined. This study used a quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control and expe...

This study investigates the educational potential of instructor-designed Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) in a university-level Japanese course, drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and the noticing hypothesis. Using a mixed-methods d...

Bioinformatics courses are widely available at US institutions of higher learning. These courses meet the high demand for experiential learning and provide training in relevant job skills for biology students. However, courses based on the biology of...

The rapid institutionalization of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education has created an urgent need for empirical evidence on how structured course-level integration relates to student engagement and perceptions of learning. T...

This article proposes a practice-informed institutional design framework for embedding transdisciplinarity (TD) as an operational orientation in higher education. Building on the Reflexive and Situated Model for Institutionalizing Transdisciplinarity...

Within postcolonial African higher education institutions (HEIs), structural inequalities often persist beneath official discourses of diversity and inclusion. This study examines how academics’ ethnic-tribal identities shape the professional d...

Swimming offers unique physiological and psychological benefits that may enhance academic performance in higher education students. However, empirical evidence specifically linking swimming activity to academic outcomes remains limited. A primary, cr...

The high rate of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is changing how teachers teach, how they are trained, and how institutions are managed. While many studies explore the use of AI in teaching and learning, there is a lack of resear...

Reflection can contribute to learning, helping students actively and constructively recall material and connect it with other aspects of their lives, as described by the interactive–constructive–active–passive (ICAP) framework. For...

This study investigates the integration of Generative AI (GenAI) in architectural design education, focusing on its potential benefits, challenges, and implications across the different stages of the architectural design process. This study employed...

Critical thinking is a stated priority of higher education reform in China, yet its enactment in everyday teaching remains uneven. This study investigated how lecturers of ideological and political theory courses (IPTCs) understand and value critical...

Immersive technologies offer new possibilities for chemistry higher education. The field benefits from secondary education study visits that enable decision making for future careers. However, access to authentic laboratory visits is often limited by...

The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created a practical problem for virtual higher education: universities must distinguish legitimate AI-supported learning from undisclosed delegation of academic work, while maintain...

Diagnostic competence is central to primary mathematics teacher education but existing approaches tend to depend on individual personnel and module structures, limiting their sustainability. This study combines a research-informed design approach wit...

Higher education plays a crucial role in equipping citizens to tackle contemporary socio-ecological challenges. However, little research has examined how different generations of university students understand socioecological transitions, or the impl...

In Ireland, most school-aged students are required to take Gaeilge (the Irish language) as a compulsory subject. For some, this is not a favourable experience. This study was designed and structured to help support student teachers who wish to delive...

Active citizenship is a key goal of higher education. However, limited empirical evidence exists on how learning management approaches support legal literacy and citizen participation among university students. This research lacuna was addressed by e...

This article develops a local theory for characterizing metric thinking in the measurement of spatial properties from a multilevel curricular perspective, understood as an analytic lens for scaling measurement processes across curricular complexity r...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly tasked with fostering pro-environmental agency to address the global climate crisis. Within physical activity and sport sciences, future nautical sports managers occupy a unique role as stewards o...

Positive Leadership in Higher Education is a key process; however, its connection to the mental health and quality of life of women in leadership roles at universities has been explored only to a limited extent. This study aimed to analyze the struct...

This article examines the Integrevise^TM platform through a repeated cross-sectional, multi-cycle pilot case study of viva-based verification in AI-mediated assessment environments. Integrevise^TM pairs a submitted written artifact with a short adaptiv...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping higher education, prompting institutions to reconsider how students demonstrate capability in an environment where text can be generated, refined, and summarised with ease. Previous rese...

Graduate STEM education in the U.S. has experienced continued growth in enrollment, due to its strong international reputation. Yet, attrition rates among students remain high. Mentoring is frequently identified as a critical factor for supporting gr...

This qualitative study explores perceptions of gender equity and leadership in three higher education institutions in Eswatini. The research involved nine senior management members—deans, registrars, and bursars—and eighteen lecturers (ni...

In an era where entertainment media increasingly functions as public pedagogy, higher education instructors must navigate how these platforms shape students’ perceptions of social and political issues. This study explores the possibilities of i...

The transition to university is a critical period of academic, social, and emotional adjustment. Social media plays a central yet complex role, offering opportunities for connection while also posing risks to wellbeing, productivity, and social integ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into higher education. Among these innovations, AI teaching assistants have emerged as tools that can provide immediate academic support, personalized feedback, and improved access to lear...

This study analyzes formative research as a pedagogical resource for teaching scientific logic in higher education from a constructivist perspective. The purpose of the article is to examine how formative research contributes to the development of sc...