Overview

This handbook covers various areas of Higher Education (HE) in which operations research/management science (OR/MS) techniques are used. Key examples include: international comparisons, university rankings, and rating academic efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); formulating academic strategy with balanced scorecard; budgeting and planning with linear and quadratic models; student forecasting; E-learning evaluation; faculty evaluation with questionnaires and multivariate statistics; marketing for HE; analytic and educational simulation; academic information systems; technology transfer with systems analysis; and examination timetabling. Overviews, case studies and findings on advanced OR/MS applications in various functional areas of HE are included.

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Author:   Zilla Sinuany-Stern
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Volume:   309
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9783030740498

ISBN 10:   3030740498
Pages:   524
Publication Date:   10 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Reviews/Overviews.- 1. Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education: An Overview.- 2. A Systematic and Updated Review of the Literature on Higher Education Marketing 2005 –2019.- 3. Overview of Simulation in Higher Education: Methods and Applications.- 4. Managing Minds: The Challenges of Current Research Information Systems for Improving University Performance.- 5. Forecasting Methods in Higher Education: An Overview.- 6. Survey of Methods for Ranking and Benchmarking Higher Education Institutions.- 7. Balanced Scorecard in Strategic Planning of Higher Education: Review.- 8. System Analysis of Technology Transfer Policies and Models in Higher Education.- 9. Models for Planning and Budgeting in Higher Education.- Part II: New Methodologies.- 10. Funding Research in Higher Education Institutions: The Game Theory Approach.- 11. A Fast Threshold Acceptance Algorithm for the Examination Timetabling Problem.- 12. Robust Efficiency viaAverage Correlation: The Case of Academic Departments.- Part III: Applications.- 13. Course Evaluation Using Preference Disaggregation Analysis: The Case of an Information Communication Technology Course.- 14. The Application of a Balanced Scorecard in HigherEducation Institutions: A Case Study of Wuls.- 15. E-Learning in Times of Crisis: An Incidental or Facilitative Event?.- 16. The Relative Efficiencies of Higher Education in OECD Countries.​

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Zilla Sinuany-Stern is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Israel. Her research interests include operations research (OR) and management science (MS): theory and applications. She has published over 150 articles, and held many important academic positions, such as: Head of the Department of IEM at BGU, President of the Israeli Society of Operations Research, Vice President of the European Association of Operations Research (EURO), Provost of Ariel University, Member of the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE), and Chair of its Quality Assurance Committee (CHE).

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