TY - JOUR
T1 - Connecting the challenges of quality and equality in higher education using the collective intelligence approach: findings from an international expert panel
AU - Khoo, Su-Ming
AU - Harney, Owen
AU - Hogan, Michael
AU - Prinsloo, Paul
AU - Algers, Anne
AU - Belluigi, Dina
AU - Brink, Chris
AU - Buckley, Lucy-Anne
AU - Carolissen, Ronelle
AU - Cheng, Ming
AU - Cronin, Catherine
AU - Czerniewicz, Laura
AU - Stein, Sharon
PY - 2024/10/18
Y1 - 2024/10/18
N2 - This article presents the results of phase one of the B-CAUSE project, an international project designed to connect equity and quality in higher education. Expert stakeholders worked together using collective intelligence methods to develop a shared understanding of (1) key features of equity-focused quality higher education, (2) barriers to equity-focused quality higher education and (3) options for overcoming these barriers. Results highlight the potential transformative dimension to equity-focused, quality higher education, including responsiveness to students, participatory design, pluralism and openness and the educational imperative to promote equity in practice. The barriers and options generated by experts focused on institutional resources and supports, excellence-equity tensions, systemic norms and pressures, reflective complexity, awareness and empathy and student supports. The collective intelligence of experts provides the basis for ongoing research, strategy and pedagogical or curricular innovation as part of the B-CAUSE project and other international efforts to foster equity-focused, quality higher education.
AB - This article presents the results of phase one of the B-CAUSE project, an international project designed to connect equity and quality in higher education. Expert stakeholders worked together using collective intelligence methods to develop a shared understanding of (1) key features of equity-focused quality higher education, (2) barriers to equity-focused quality higher education and (3) options for overcoming these barriers. Results highlight the potential transformative dimension to equity-focused, quality higher education, including responsiveness to students, participatory design, pluralism and openness and the educational imperative to promote equity in practice. The barriers and options generated by experts focused on institutional resources and supports, excellence-equity tensions, systemic norms and pressures, reflective complexity, awareness and empathy and student supports. The collective intelligence of experts provides the basis for ongoing research, strategy and pedagogical or curricular innovation as part of the B-CAUSE project and other international efforts to foster equity-focused, quality higher education.
KW - quality education
KW - equity
KW - inequality
KW - collective intelligence
U2 - 10.1080/13538322.2024.2357866
DO - 10.1080/13538322.2024.2357866
M3 - Article
JO - Quality in Higher Education
JF - Quality in Higher Education
ER -