Understanding the Ever-Changing Normal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The post-pandemic era in higher education brought with it pedagogical uncertainties and transformative opportunities for university teachers and students. This Collection entitled “Understanding the Ever-Changing Normal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” gives university teachers, policy makers, and curriculum designers the opportunity to examine, through different methodologies and perspectives, the complexities of the learning design, academic performance, technology use, teaching strategies, and student success and retention in higher education today. 

The Collection will feature articles about current and innovative theoretical models, frameworks, concepts, informing and guiding practical aspects of teachers’ and students’ roles today. These articles might address various issues facing higher education today in regard to how they impact the roles of teachers and students. Such challenges might include reduced funding, influences of neoliberal management, threats to democracy around the world, global challenges of war and displacement, public health crises, natural disasters, mental health issues, the glut of information and misinformation, and the advent of AI-supported learning environments. 

Perspectives may be either local or international with empirical aspects or review papers that illustrate the contribution of sociocultural factors within and outside the classroom to students’ engagement, performance, motivation, agency, autonomy in the higher education today. We have been observing dramatic changes in the ways students are prompted to engage in self-directed learning, reading, using, and doing research, and learning through pedagogical and technological pedagogical advancements. Our Collection aims to bring together a comprehensive exploration of these transformations to offer insights and reflections that will contribute to the ongoing discourse on reimagining and reshaping teaching and learning higher education. 

The submission deadline for this collection is Dec 31, 2024. You can submit your manuscript any time before that, and all articles published by Discover Education are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. You can access the Topical Collection via this link.

There is no process of submitting abstracts for preliminary acceptance with this journal; however, please let us know if you are interested in contributing a paper to the collection. Also, feel free to send any ideas or abstracts you might like to discuss with Kenan and/or me.

To submit your manuscript for consideration at Discover Education as part of this Topical Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. When submitting your manuscript, you will need to indicate that you are submitting your manuscript to a Collection. To do so, on the ‘Details’ page select the “Understanding the Ever-Changing Normal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” Topical Collection from the drop-down list. Authors should also express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.

We hope you will consider contributing!