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This book explores how the global trend of quality assurance in higher education is related to the boom of measuring learning outcomes in Japan. It also presents a comparative study in higher education policy between Japan and the US, examining how both countries have reacted to the demands of globalization. This comparative view will help readers understand the present issues Japanese higher education faces and grasp the commonalties and differences between American and Japanese higher education. The book first explores the forces of globalization that have resulted in Japanese universities emphasizing student learning outcomes. Next, it examines how Japanese higher education has learned from the experience of the U.S., whose higher education reform has been regarded as a model for Japan. The book explains why quality assurance for teaching and learning has become important for all Japanese higher education institutions. Higher Education on a global basis is now facing a great issue. In order to help students in a competitive global market, universities need to become more teaching-and-learning-centered and develop more internationalized curricula. This book provides comparative views for cultural and structural similarities and differences in higher education in two countries which could explain significant differences in the gains students make in college. It will help readers understand not only how student learning outcomes can be measured, but why universities throughout the world must continually strive to become world-class institutions.

Sociology of education --- Didactic evaluation --- Teaching --- evaluatie (onderwijs) --- onderwijs --- onderwijssociologie --- onderwijsonderzoek --- Japan --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Educational tests and measurements. --- Educational sociology. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Assessment and Testing. --- Sociology of Education.

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Computer science --- Programming --- Computer. Automation --- programmeren (informatica) --- programmeertalen --- software engineering

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, CALCO 2013, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2013. The 18 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover topics in the fields of abstract models and logics, specialized models and calculi, algebraic and coalgebraic semantics, system specification and verification, as well as corecursion in programming languages, and algebra and coalgebra in quantum computing. The book also includes 6 papers from the CALCO Tools Workshop, co-located with CALCO 2013 and dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles.

Mathematical logic --- Algebra --- Mathematical control systems --- Computer science --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Computer. Automation --- algebra --- toegepaste informatica --- quantumcomputers --- computers --- informatica --- software engineering --- computerkunde --- informatietheorie

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This book inquires into the Capability Approach, a value theory of freedom, which crystalizes the interests of Marx, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, and Ethics. The capability approach has attracted many people as a promising interdisciplinary approach to human well-being and social worlds, finely overarching ethical and economic concerns. It has well challenged essential characteristics of welfare economics, which focuses on the criterion of efficiency with the concept of utility, by explicitly incorporating normative criteria such as agency, well-being and real freedom into positive analysis. However, it has a bit operational and methodological difficulties such that how to estimate an individual capability set which includes potential multi-dimensional functioning vectors. This book reminds the reader of what traditional economics has left behind, by examining historical backgrounds, scrutinizing philosophical foundations and providing an operational formulation of the capability approach: indispensable for understanding what the capability approach is about and what it can achieve. Reiko Gotoh is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

Philosophy --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology --- Microeconomics --- Economics --- psychosociale wetenschappen --- sociologie --- economie --- sociale filosofie

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This book examines several emerging trends in higher education, including artificial intelligence and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on higher education transformation over the past couple of years. All higher education leaders and policy makers are dealing with the aftermath and continuing battle they face regarding higher education within the context of COVID-19. AI and the 4IR are also areas that impact every aspect of higher education, especially as disciplines are forced to provide credentials and relevance aligned to the workforce and economic needs. The chapters provide regional and country case studies from within the Asia Pacific Region. .

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of education --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Computer assisted instruction --- Audiovisual methods --- Teaching --- Higher education --- Educational sciences --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- onderwijspolitiek --- onderwijstechnologie --- onderwijs --- computerondersteund onderwijs --- globalisering --- onderwijsonderzoek --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Education, Higher. --- Education and state. --- Globalization. --- Educational technology. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Higher Education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Digital Education and Educational Technology.