Realising the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education

Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education, Lancaster University, UK. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE).Margaret Blackie is Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University, South Africa.Jennifer Case is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech, USA.Jan McArthur is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University UK.Nicole Pitterson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, USA.Reneé Smit is the director of the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE) at the University of Cape Town based in South Africa.Ashish Agrawal is Assistant Professor, College of Engineering Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.Kayleigh Rosewell is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK.Alaa Abdalla is post-doctoral research in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.Benjamin Goldschneider is Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, USA.

• List of FiguresList of TablesSeries Editor’s ForewordChapter 1: Why Focus on Realising the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education?Chapter 2: How Were the Six Universities Situated in their Higher Education Systems?Chapter 3: What Were the Educational Intentions of the Degree Programmes? Chapter 4: Why Did the Students Enter Higher Education and What Did They Gain? Chapter 5: How Did Engaging with Knowledge Change Students’ Understanding of the World? Chapter 6: What Did Graduates Value about Higher Education and What Were Their Employment Situations? Chapter 7: How Did Graduates Use Their Knowledge to Engage with the World?Chapter 8: How Can the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education Be Realised?Appendix 1: Methodological AppendixAppendix 2: Publications from the ProjectIndex