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Fast forwarding Higher Education Institutions for Global Challenges

Perspectives and Approaches

  • Provides insights into the changing landscape of knowledge boundaries with regard to educational leadership domains

  • Furnishes educational managers with information and knowledge essential for running 21st century educational institutions

  • Offers readers a broader view of current and pressing educational management issues

  • Highlights some aspects in academic institutions that need to be strengthened and improved to make higher education institutions key players for modern nation-building, economic growth and sustainability

  • Enlightens academicians, researchers and students on how higher education institutions can be viewed from different lens and fast-forwarded from various disciplines

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Rich Text, Rich Teach: Expanding Educational Horizons with Technology in Malaysia

    • Timothy N. Walters, Lynne M. Walters, Martha R. Green, Lau Hooi Lin
    Pages 11-24
  3. Managing and Evaluating ICTs in Higher Education: A Reassurance Measure for Sustainable Investment

    • Nafisat Afolake Adedokun-Shittu, Abdul Jaleel Kehinde Shittu
    Pages 37-46
  4. Caring: A Useful Tool to Embed Sustainability Concepts into Nursing Education

    • Jennifer C. F. Loke, Bryant K. Lee, Deborah K. H. Lim, Mary Laurenson
    Pages 135-146
  5. Moral Sensitivity Practice in Academic Deanship: Does It Really Matter?

    • Maria Rosario G. Catacutan, Allan B. de Guzman
    Pages 173-184

About this book

This book addresses various 21st century questions and challenges, especially the role of technology in upgrading teaching and learning in today’s society, and the role of higher education institutions in improving standards of living, economics, society and sustainability. It shares with readers the challenges of globalization to higher institutions concerning the issues relating to value creation management, branding and the impact on leadership in higher institutions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Educational Studies, University of Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Ismail Hussein Amzat, Byabazaire Yusuf

About the editors

Ismail Hussein Amzat obtained his Bachelor degree from Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt, Master degree from International Islamic University Malaysia and Doctoral degree from University Malaysia. He is a current senior visiting lecturer of Educational Management at the Universiti Utara Malaysia (Malaysian Northern University) and previously a lecturer at UCSI, Twintech, Taj College and a teacher at the Islamic and International schools in Malaysia. He was also a visiting Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has vast experience in research on educational leadership and management and has published quite reasonable papers in many reputable journals indexed in Scopus and ISI on university management, school leadership, job satisfaction and decision-making.

Byabazaire Yusuf, Ph.D. is currently a senior faculty member at the School of Education and Modern Languages (SEML), College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Kedah, Malaysia. He has worked in various school settings and higher education institutions for more than 15 years. He handles fundamentals of instructional technology, ICT in education and multimedia for education and training at graduate level. Areas of keen research interest include; ICT integration in education, special needs education and library and information science. He completed his PhD in Instructional Technology at the University of Malaya in 2010.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fast forwarding Higher Education Institutions for Global Challenges

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives and Approaches

  • Editors: Ismail Hussein Amzat, Byabazaire Yusuf

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-603-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-602-7Published: 10 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1311-9Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-603-4Published: 30 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 203

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Human Resource Management

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