Higher Education Teaching and Learning Innovations in Developing Asia: Improving Equity and Enhancing Quality

Dear Colleagues,

The higher education landscape has changed significantly over the last decade due to digital, economic, and societal transformations; the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated these transformations with online and remote learning becoming the dominant mode of higher education programme and course delivery due to university closures. Although universities have attempted to respond to these changes with curriculum and assessment reforms, professional development of their staff and leaders, local and international partnerships, and infrastructure and hardware investment, many universities in developing Asian countries lack the capacity to work out a robust and coherent set of responses to these changes. The lack of capacity may hinder the access of their students to quality higher education.

This Special Issue examines how universities in developing Asian countries adopt teaching and learning innovations to improve the equity and enhance the quality of higher education. The papers in this Special Issue will be within the scope of the following topics set in the higher education context of developing Asian countries to improve equity and enhance quality:

• Curriculum reforms and leadership;
• Pedagogical innovations (digital or non-digital);
• Alternative assessment and digital assessment;
• Emerging technologies and their affordances for teaching, learning, and assessment;
• Online and remote teaching and learning;
• Institutional policies and planning to drive and support teaching and learning innovations;
• Digital competencies of the higher education workforce and students;
• Professional development of the higher education workforce;
• Quality assurance and enhancement of teaching and learning innovations;
• University–industry partnerships.

Prof. Dr. Cher Ping LIM
Dr. RA Sungsup
Ms. Bingran Zeng
Guest Editors

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