"The events of the last years have shaken the world of higher education. The post-COVID-19 period has raised multiple questions in key areas, from digitalisation over quality assurance to internationalisation. This book brings together scholars, practitioners and policymakers in higher education, and discusses in a variety of topics the future of the higher education sector in a rapidly changing context: the complexities of digital education, the need or necessity for innovation or the impact of globalisation are some of the topics addressed in this book. Those topics are brought together around one central theme: how can the future of higher education be accelerated to address in a sustainable way the needs of a changing global context? Contributors are: Mario Alarcón, Bruno Broucker, James Calleja, Ida Iselin Eriksson, Magdalena Fellner, Hugo A. García, Corinna Geppert, Carmen Heidenwolf, Andrew S. Herridge, Torstein Nielsen Hole, Pablo Hormazábal Saavedra, Lisa J. James, Kerstin Janson, Cindy Konen, Gergely Kováts, René Krempkow, Alice Laufer, Clare Milsom, Darlington Mutakwa, Mark O'Hara, Attila Pausits, Pascale Stephanie Petri, Julia Rathke, Florian Reisky, Katharina Riesinger, Christian Schemer, Marit Ubbe and Denyse Webbstock"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction : accelerating the future of higher education / Bruno Broucker, Clare Milsom, James Calleja and Mark O'Hara -- The influence of cognitive abilities when evaluating information within an information problem online / Alice Laufer and Christian Schemer -- Higher education governance in Austria : a comparative analysis on academics' perception of institutional governance and management practices at public universities and university colleges of teacher education / Florian Reisky, Corinna Geppert and Attila Pausits -- Engaging students in their learning journey : the role of social integration in higher education / Pascale Stephanie Petri -- A mapping of key activity areas for development of higher education : examples from Norwegian Centres for Excellence in Education / Torstein Nielsen Hole, Marit Ubbe and Ida Iselin Eriksson -- To innovate or not to innovate? : professors' motives and withholding reasons for cooperative innovations / Cindy Konen -- Collaborative policymaking : bringing together evidence and expertise in policymaking towards recommendations / Carmen Heidenwolf, Katharina Riesinger, Magdalena Fellner and Attila Pausits -- Managerial adjustments to improve strategic alignment : the case of a Chilean university / Mario Alarcón and Pablo Hormazábal Saavedra -- What competences we need for HE managers : results from the German Mixed Methods Project KaWuM / Julia Rathke, René Krempkow and Kerstin Janson -- Globalization of higher education : short-term study abroad programs / Andrew S. Herridge, Lisa J. James and Hugo A. García -- Lessons from the student learning experience in the pandemic era : a South African university perspective / Darlington Mutakwa and Denyse Webbstock -- University governance reform in an illiberal democracy : public interest trusts in Hungary / Gergely Kováts.