Education + Training: Volume 58 Issue 2

Student experience of oral communication assessment tasks online from a multi-disciplinary trial

Bonnie McBain, Antony Drew, Carole James, Liam Phelan, Keith M Harris, Jennifer Archer

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the experiences of tertiary students learning oral presentation skills in a range of online and blended learning contexts across diverse…

Gender and self-employment: the role of mini-companies

Vegard Johansen

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what degree participation in mini-companies impact young women and men with regard to the perceived desirability and perceived…

Survey of experiential entrepreneurship education offerings among top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs

Richard Mandel, Erik Noyes

The purpose of this paper is to analyze experiential entrepreneurship education offerings – programs and courses – among the “Top 25” undergraduate schools of entrepreneurship in…

The influence of cooperative education and reflection upon previous work experiences on university graduates’ vocational self-concept

David Drewery, Colleen Nevison, T Judene Pretti

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative effects of participation in cooperative education (co-op) and engagement in reflection upon previous work experiences on…

Internationalizing Higher Education (HE) in Vietnam: Insights from Higher Education leaders – an exploratory study

Dong Phong Nguyen, Margaret Vickers, Thi Minh Chau Ly, Mai Dong Tran

The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of the key drivers, and challenges, of the internationalization of Higher Education (HE), especially in the transitioning…

Impact of entrepreneurship programmes on university students

Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, Antonio Peñafiel Velasco, Husam Kokash

The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurship in Malaga University based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour model. There are two objectives: to analyse the…

Open courses and MOOCs as professional development – is the openness a hindrance?

Ulf Olsson

The purpose of this paper is to analyse if open courses, including massive open online courses (MOOCs), can be used as professional development despite their openness since the…