Using nationally representative data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond surveys, I establish a new descriptive finding: Students who take longer than four years to complete their bachelor's degree have significantly lower graduate school enrollment rates compared with students who complete their bachelor's degree in four years, which is the…

Reflective learning is considered crucial for advancing learning strategies, improving professional practice, and engaging in lifelong learning. For this reason, developing reflective learning has been imperative for the education of professionals across disciplines. Despite its potential, however, there is a lack of conceptual clarity and models…

The United Kingdom is one of the most preferred study abroad destinations for international students due to its globally recognized universities, high academic standards, and strong career outcomes. This article provides an overview of studying in the UK, including academic structure, university selection, admission pathways, and post-study…

This qualitative study examines the experiences of first-year TAs as they conducted teacher research projects in the TA practicum. We argue that teacher research in the practicum provides a way to bridge teaching and knowledge making, foster a continual and layered learning practice, and extend the learning of the practicum beyond the first year.

This paper examines the gender gap in log earnings among full-time, college-educated workers born between 1931 and 1984. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates and other sources, we decompose the gender earnings gap across birth cohorts into three components: (i) gender differences in the relative returns to undergraduate and…

Experiential learning in biomedical engineering curricula is a critical component to developing graduates who are equipped to contribute to technical design tasks in their careers. This paper presents the development and implementation of an undergraduate and graduate-level soft material robotics design course focused on applications in medical…

Purpose: Engagement of non-academic stakeholders is an important element of education for sustainability, but is rarely mentioned in contemporary agricultural education literature. This article investigates the process of engagement of non-academic stakeholders into higher education programs on agriculture. Non-academic stakeholders refer to…

In the field of user experience (UX), there is a wide range of skills that practitioners are expected to acquire and demonstrate as a competitive candidate for a job. Previous research identified three main skill categories of UX practitioners: technical skills, human skills, and dispositions. However, as educators, we have found that students…

Many publications describe use of ultrasound imaging in teaching of clinical courses, primarily integrated with clinical applications. More recently there have been increasing numbers of papers describing ultrasound as a tool primarily for teaching basic anatomy and physiology concepts rather than clinical applications. Of these, many have…

Standard online tutorials at The Open University, based in the UK, are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content. This study investigated the inclusion of online student-led drop-in tutorials to support assessment on an OU level one module. The aims were to gauge the value to students of this style of tutorial, to…

This teaching brief highlights innovative adaptations of established pedagogical techniques to equip students with critical skills for success in Industry 4.0. More specifically, this brief focuses on two courses: an undergraduate Operations and Supply Chain Management course and an MBA Supply Chain Management course, both designed to foster…

This case examines the tax implications of various not-for-profit statuses available to an organization. Students are presented with a case that considers whether the organization currently classified as a 501(c)(7) organization is properly classified, or should be classified as a 501(c)(3) organization, which would allow its members to take…

This publication shares data from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) about its three Student Access Programs, as well as participation and migration statistics for each program, shared in aggregate and by each WICHE-region state and eligible Pacific Island jurisdiction. The report also includes data summaries that…

Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline has traditionally been anchored in the principles of state-centric governance, national implementation policies, and the management of domestic public affairs. However, the rise of global and transnational governance has significantly reshaped the context in which public administrators operate.…

Postgraduate education includes a special dimension of the educational process. Developments worldwide are increasing the interest in postgraduate education. The purpose of this research is to examine postgraduate education as a transformational tool. The research addresses the postgraduate's master's phase. The research was conducted using a…