Full Description
This handbook covers various areas of Higher Education (HE) in which operations research/management science (OR/MS) techniques are used. Key examples include: international comparisons, university rankings, and rating academic efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); formulating academic strategy with balanced scorecard; budgeting and planning with linear and quadratic models; student forecasting; E-learning evaluation; faculty evaluation with questionnaires and multivariate statistics; marketing for HE; analytic and educational simulation; academic information systems; technology transfer with systems analysis; and examination timetabling. Overviews, case studies and findings on advanced OR/MS applications in various functional areas of HE are included.
Contents
Part I: Reviews/Overviews.- 1. Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education: An Overview.- 2. A Systematic and Updated Review of the Literature on Higher Education Marketing 2005 -2019.- 3. Overview of Simulation in Higher Education: Methods and Applications.- 4. Managing Minds: The Challenges of Current Research Information Systems for Improving University Performance.- 5. Forecasting Methods in Higher Education: An Overview.- 6. Survey of Methods for Ranking and Benchmarking Higher Education Institutions.- 7. Balanced Scorecard in Strategic Planning of Higher Education: Review.- 8. System Analysis of Technology Transfer Policies and Models in Higher Education.- 9. Models for Planning and Budgeting in Higher Education.- Part II: New Methodologies.- 10. Funding Research in Higher Education Institutions: The Game Theory Approach.- 11. A Fast Threshold Acceptance Algorithm for the Examination Timetabling Problem.- 12. Robust Efficiency viaAverage Correlation: The Case of Academic Departments.- Part III: Applications.- 13. Course Evaluation Using Preference Disaggregation Analysis: The Case of an Information Communication Technology Course.- 14. The Application of a Balanced Scorecard in HigherEducation Institutions: A Case Study of Wuls.- 15. E-Learning in Times of Crisis: An Incidental or Facilitative Event?.- 16. The Relative Efficiencies of Higher Education in OECD Countries.
