Full Description
This edited book explores how university educators are leading pro-human change in global higher education in a rapidly evolving digital era. The book highlights the transformative power of collaboration, impactful educational development, and inclusive communities within academic settings, demonstrating how education without boundaries can catalyse social, political, and human rights advocacy. Through insightful ethnographic accounts and expert perspectives, chapters examine the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence, neoliberal university expansion, and digital learning environments. This collection offers practical strategies and critical reflections for fostering student success, advancing teaching and learning, and shaping curriculums suited to the post-digital future of higher education. The book will interest academics and students exploring higher education, digital education, educational technology, artificial intelligence, pedagogy, and human rights.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Part I: The Value of Collaboration over Academic Colonialism in Global Higher Education.- Chapter 2: Keeping Knowledge Alive in the Age of Anti-Education, Disinformation, and Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 3: The University Educator as Bricoleur: Protecting the Personal in Higher Education in the Age of AI Deepfakes.- Chapter 4: Learning and Gaming: A Cultural Comparison of Identity Transitions and Constructions amongst Scottish and Chinese University Students.- Chapter 5: Embracing Generative AI in Education: A Global View on AI Anxiety through Digital Literacy.- Chapter 6: From Pedagogy to Mobagogy: Students' Lived Experiences of Smartphone Learning.- Chapter 7: AI in Mental Health and Higher Education: Wellbeing, Challenges and Ethical Considerations.- Chapter 8: Introduction to Part II: The Meaning of Impact in Global Higher Education.- Chapter 9: Transitioning to Western Universities at Home and Abroad: Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Students.- Chapter 10: Aligning Principles: Students as Peers in the Landscape of Responsible Management Education.- Chapter 11: Driving Change, Participation and Inclusivity in a UK Educational and Academic Development Centre.- Chapter 12: An Autoethnography of Academic Endurance in Chinese COVID-19 Quarantine.- Chapter 13: Rethinking Employability in the Age of AI: A Critical Analysis of University Strategies for Graduate Success.- Chapter 14: Empowering Autonomy in Language Learning: The Transformative Potential of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) in Higher Education.- Chapter 15: The Role of Immersive Project-Based Learning in Shaping Future Entrepreneurs.- Chapter 16: Introduction to Part III: This is Our Time for Inclusivity in Global Higher Education.- Chapter 17: Person vs. Machine: Cultivating Humility to Sustain Pro-Human Education in the Age of AI.- Chapter 18: Student-as-Partners (SaP) in Higher Education: Exploring Perceptions and Experiences.- Chapter 19: Fostering Cultural Cohesion in Sino-British Cooperative Universities: Whose Values Matter?.- Chapter 20: Building Moral Global Universities: Shaping Student Success, Mapping Fairness and Empowering Curriculums in Universities.- Chapter 21: Cognitive Justice, Indigenisation and Educational Transformation.- Chapter 22: Conclusion: Emancipatory Education without Boundaries in the Age of Neoliberalism, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Learning Platforms.
