Preface

**Section 5 Middle East North Africa (MENA) 79**

**Systems in the MENA Region 81**

Clara Viegas and Pedro Guerreiro

**Research-Involved Teaching 111**

**Section 7 Republic of South Africa 129**

**Distance Learning 131** Vimbi P. Mahlangu

**Section 6 New Zealand 109**

**VI** Contents

**Section 8 Turkey 147**

Tuncer Bülbül

Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe

**Section 9 United States 173**

**Section 10 Zimbabwe 187**

Chapter 5 **A Community of Practice Around Online Labs in Iraq: Towards Effective Support for Academics and Higher Educational**

Chapter 6 **Integrating Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Science**

Chapter 7 **Professional Development of Adult Learners through Open and**

Chapter 8 **Factors Influencing Access to Higher Education in Turkey 149**

Chapter 9 **Collaborative Contagion: A Case Study in Curriculum Development, Distribution, and Adoption 175** Ryan M. Yonk, James Harrigan and Neal Mason

Chapter 10 **Student Voice: Embracing Student Activism as a Quality Improvement Tool in Higher Education 189**

Christopher Harvey, Emilia Bertolo and Lee Byrne

Razwan Mohmed Salah, Gustavo R. Alves, Shamil Kaddoury Talal,

**Undergraduate Curriculum: Embedding Employability Through**

The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. While some are concerned about the potential of higher education to influence economic devel‐ opment, others are worried about the increasing workloads of teaching professionals, and still others are concerned about student voice. In *Global Voices in Higher Education*, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describing not only their research but also the context in which their work exists. Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the global voices of higher education are presented in a way that only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand.

> **Susan L. Renes, PhD** University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

**Section 1**
