Description
The global higher education sector has changed dramatically as universities continue to face unprecedented challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many are struggling to navigate this crisis while maintaining high-quality course delivery, ensuring strong student recruitment numbers, and providing clear communication to staff and students. Issues have emerged at an exponential rate, and coping with the pandemic has been particularly difficult for universities as they serve several functions, such as being educational institutions as well as major employers.
Leadership and Management Strategies for Creating Agile Universities reflects on the challenges that higher education institutions have faced during the pandemic and the associated projected socio-economic impact yet to be felt. It also considers how different universities have addressed the challenges so as to learn what has and has not worked and speculates what future implications exist for the vision of a new higher education sector in a changing world. Covering topics such as developmental leadership, IT governance, and lifelong learning, it is ideal for policymakers, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, governors, decision makers, teachers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Thomas Connolly (Ed.)
Thomas Connolly is a Professor and Head of Creative Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland, Director of the research Institute for Creative Technologies and Applied Computing (ICTAC) and Chair of the Centre for ICT in Education (ICTE). He has published over 150 papers in online learning, games-based learning, Web2.0 technologies and database systems. He is also Director of the Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies (SCET), whose mission is to support large and small companies in the adoption of emerging technologies, particularly with the Creative Industries sector. In the past 5 years, he has managed over 150 projects with Scottish companies, increasing company turnover by over 65 million and creating 500 jobs and safeguarding a further 900 jobs.
Stephen Farrier (Ed.)
Stephen Farrier, now retired, was a senior academic and Senior researcher of 35 years’ experience. Stephen still remains active as consultant, advisor, mentor, researcher and research advisor within Higher Education, Public and private sector strategic levels. Stephen’s research experience, as Senior Research Fellow, Senior Academic Adviser, educational consultant and senior lecturer, in Higher Education and professional education, is primarily within the area of abstracted learning, including pedagogy development and learning technologies. Stephen’s other specialisms include, the study of professional practice, the sociology of professions, cultural competence and harmonization, diversity, participatory democracy, knowledge architecture, skills acquisition, professional competence in terms of Education and learning. Stephen also has collaborative research experience in, assistive technologies, serious gaming architectures in education and learning. Stephen has developed and delivered many research based projects nationally and internationally, and is known for his credibility in these fields, as Principal Investigator, research manager, project manager. Stephen has published globally and has presented at many conferences and consultancies throughout his career.