Call for Papers for Scopus indexed Journal of Global Business and Technology (JGBAT) Special Issue on “Innovative Pedagogical Educational Tools in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)”. 

JGBAT is fully Open Access (OA). The Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for this special issue only.
 
Deadline: September 4th, 2023
Tentative Publication Date: December 20th, 2023

JGBAT is published by the Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA). Journal Website: https://gbata.org/journal-of-global-business-and-technology-jgbat/

Submission Process

Submit manuscripts through e-mail with the Subject Line “JGBAT Special Issue” to Dr. Susana Rodrigues at [log in to unmask]  

Nature of the Special Issue

In times of changing and uncertainty, HEIs are challenged to provide knowledge and competences in different ways. HEIs are challenged to apply new pedagogical tools that stimulate students’ creativity, co-creation, teamwork, towards innovation and problem-solving. Students must be trained to deal with real problems, to understand the organizations’ challenges, to create future scenarios, to provided solutions for complex environments, and far most to work with multidisciplinary teams towards innovative solutions. In this new context, HEIs should consider retreating traditional ways of teaching, confined to expositive theoretical concepts between the receiver and the sender. HEIs should engaged in new Innovative Pedagogical Tools that create ecosystems formed by organizations (i.e., public, or private, from any sector, or dimension, driven by the will of learning and share), teachers, students, and researchers, from different technical background, and experience, united by the wish of co-creating; contributing for something new, to leverage social, environmental, and economic impact.

This Special Issue on Innovative Pedagogical Educational Tools in HEIs, attempts to gather empirical, conceptual, and theoretical contributions of HEIs Innovative Pedagogical best practices. It attempts to illustrate concepts, trends, tools, processes, facts, and strategies of how HEIs create educational ecosystems to help organizations/companies to respond to uncertainty, technological evolution, digital transformation, and resources dearth. It attempts to illustrate practices of co-creation innovation on HEIs. It attempts to describe how HEIs are changing their way of educating, by creating new ways of engaging and better prepare decision makers for the current and future challenges.

This Special Issue will share relevant information to scale up HEIs innovative methods of teaching and learning. It will attempt to help and inspire HEIs to make the transition to a stronger and more robust knowledge and competences acquisition to respond to our demanding days by co-creating added value for society.

Editors

Dr. N. Delener, Editor-in-Chief, [log in to unmask]
Dr. F. Victor Lu, Managing Editor, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Susana Rodrigues, Guest Editor, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Joaquim Mourato, Guest Editor, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Vera Ferro Lebres, Guest Editor; [log in to unmask]

About the Journal

The Journal of Global Business and Technology is listed with: Scopus, Cabell’s International Journalytics, EBSCO including Academic Search, and ProQuest including ABI/INFORM and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS). The journal is currently under review by Web of Science.

Best regards,
 
Prof. Dr. N. Delener
Dean, Graham School of Business
York College of Pennsylvania