Reimagining Higher Education: Case Studies on Designing for Inclusion, Equity, and Access in the BUKA Project

The aim of the international, Erasmus+ funded BUKA project was to facilitate advances in designing and implementing high quality online and hybrid learning in order to increase access and equity in higher education. Partner Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Finland and Ireland worked together to design, develop, implement, and evaluate pilot interventions that sought to help build institutional capacity in providing impactful, high quality online and hybrid study programmes in different higher education contexts. The examples shared in the chapters below are based on research, experience, and best practices learned through the pilot interventions at the partner HEIs, written up here as case studies. 

The book consists of two main parts. The first part introduces research-based approaches to learning design and capacity building that have been found useful in the design and implementation of the pilot interventions in the BUKA project. In the second part, project partners discuss their local pilot interventions. The reader is offered an open and transparent view behind the scenes as the authors share the different phases of the development work, including challenges and unforeseen hindrances as well as the successes and results of their work. The sincere hope of the authors is that these experiences and insights will be helpful for other educators and organisations wishing to undertake similar developments.