Challenges and Opportunities of Higher Education in a Post-COVID-19 World: Headed for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: higher education; global mobility; student engagement; innovative quantitative methods; sustainable development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: student engagement; labor economics; microeconometrics; policy impact
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of higher education throughout the world has become a major topic of discussion over the last few decades. During the COVID-19 pandemic, unfortunately, lockdowns severely affected regular campus activities. Various studies focused on the emerging issues related to higher education, for example, innovative learning technology [1–2], specific learning challenges [3-4], and issues impacting international students [5-7]. Higher education has been viewed to play a central role in training the next generation to meet the demand for skills necessary for social, economic, and environmental development. It is time to reconsider the challenges and opportunities of higher education in the post-COVID-19 world.
The Special Issue invites the papers addressing what strategies and measures (teaching tools and research practices) are being applied to invent sustainable higher education in the post-COVID-19 world. We welcome researchers engaged in higher education practices to share and exchange their research experiences, including innovative methods, pedagogical approaches, and sustainable initiatives that they are practicing in the post-pandemic era. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Exploring the critical factors that impart related policy or management practices in higher education affected by the pandemic or that might impact in the post-pandemic era;
- New opportunities for innovative approaches for higher education access, teaching, learning, and retaining students in the post-pandemic environment;
- Challenges of higher education for sustainable development in the post-pandemic era;
- The new directions of pedagogical approaches, tools, strategies, evaluation, and assessment methods for pandemic-affected higher education;
- Challenges and opportunities of global mobility in higher education learning settings;
- Higher education best practices for delivering top-quality education in a post-COVID-19 world.
We encourage interdisciplinary empirical and conceptual contributions that open up new lines of inquiry in the field. “Challenges and Opportunities of Higher Education in a Post-COVID-19 World: Headed for Sustainable Development” will be an opportunity to share knowledge for building the post-COVID-19 educational world.
References:
- Abdelsalam, M.M.; Ebitisam, K.E.; Shadi, A.; Hasan, R.; Hadeel, A. The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: Challenges and opportunities from the perspective of students and instructors. J. Comput. High. Educ. 2021, 3, 1–18.
- Fakari, F.R.; Hajian, S. COVID-19-opportunity for online education: Do not forget the ethical considerations in teaching learners. J. Educ. Health Promot. 2021, 10, 162.
- Liu, Y.; Shen, W. Perching birds or scattered streams: A study of how trust affects civic engagement among university students in contemporary China. High. Educ. 2021, 81, 421–436.
- Evans, B.J.; Marsicano, C.R.; Lennartz, C.J. Cracks in the bedrock of American democracy: Differences in civic engagement across institutions of higher education. Educ. Res. 2019, 48, 31–44.
- Mok, K.H.; Xiong, W.; Ke, G.; Cheung, J.O.W. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on international higher education and student mobility: Student perspectives from mainland China and Hong Kong. Int. J. Educ. Res. 2021, 105, 101718.
- Wu, S.-J.; Chang, D.-F.; Sun, F.-R. Exploring college students’ perspectives on global mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery. Educ. Sci. 2020, 10, 218.
- Chang, D.F.; Chou, W.C. Detecting the institutional mediation of push–pull factors on international students’ satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 11405.
Prof. Dr. Dian-Fu Chang
Prof. Dr. Yen-Ling Lin
Dr. Shu-Jing Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- higher education
- sustainable education
- sustainability strategy
- sustainability
- challenges of post-COVID-19 world
- online teaching and learning
- working conditions in higher education
- student mobility
- 21st century skills