Vol 3, No 3 (2014)

International Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2014

Table of Contents

Articles

Shaping the First-Year Experience: Assessment of the Vision Planning Seminar at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Japan
Hiroshi Ito
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Factors Contributing to Research Team Effectiveness: Testing a Model of Team Effectiveness in an Academic Setting
Zoharah Omar, Aminah Ahmad
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Assessing Graduate Attributes: Building a Criteria-Based Competency Model
Donald Ipperciel, Samira ElAtia
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Research on Affective Teaching Strategy in China's College English Classroom
Qiang Zhang
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Prospects for Policy Advances in Science and Technology in the Gulf Arab States: The Role for International Partnerships
David P. Hajjar, George W. Moran, Afreen Siddiqi, Joshua E. Richardson, Laura D. Anadon, Venkatesh Narayanamurti
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Toward an Instructional Philosophy: A Theoretical Framework for Teaching and Training at Salman Bin Abdulaziz University (SAU)
Yasine Qandile, Wajeeh Al-Qasim
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Teachers’ Accounts of Their Perceptions and Practices of Providing Written Feedback to Nursing Students on Their Assignments
Sajid Iqbal, Raisa Gul, Arusa Lakhani, Nusrat Fatima Rizvi
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Do You Want Your Students to Be Job-Ready with 21st Century Skills? Change Pedagogies: A Pedagogical Paradigm Shift from Vygotskyian Social Constructivism to Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Siemens’ Digital Connectivism
Charles Kivunja
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Learning from Success: How Original Research on Academic Resilience Informs what College Faculty Can do to Increase the Retention of Low Socioeconomic Status Students
Erik E. Morales
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Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher
Mette Krogh Christensen, Ole Lund
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How to Construct Curricula for Finance Professional under Credit System in China
Yuanyuan Ma
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Self- and Peer Assessment in Massive Open Online Courses
Wilfried Admiraal, Bart Huisman, Maarten Van de Ven
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Greek Educational Policy: From the Collaborative Model of the School Counselor Institution of the A. Papandreou’s (1981) Educational Policy towards the Model of Superintendence and Supervision of the Period 2008-2013
Kalerante Evaggelia
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Use of Personal Response Systems in Higher Education – A Case Study
Rachel Or-Bach
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The Impact of Desegregation on College Choices of Elite Black Athletes
George R. La Noue, Mark Bennett
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Strategy for a sustained quality delivery mode of ODL programmes for massive enrollments and e-learning: The Case for Zimbabwe Open University
Gabriel Kabanda
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