Fostering innovation competencies in tourism higher education via design-based and value-based learning

Tourism Education During the Pandemic: Students’ Perspective

“…Our case study on students' perspective on tourism education reveals that the innovative modes of teaching and learning have both positive and negative outcomes. Our findings echo those of other recent studies supporting the need of higher education to better adapt the curriculum alongside emerging tasks and teaching roles (Phi and Clausen, 2020;Stefanini, et al 2020). Teacher-student communication and interaction are key to fostering the motivation and involvement of students in learning and team working.…”

“…Besides the early assessments searching to pertain to the major challenges faced by the hospitality and tourism industry (Kaushal and Srivastava 2021), another stream of research has been consistently developed on the tourism higher education. The move from face-to-face to online education has focused the research on the adaptation needed to accommodate new tasks and teaching roles (Phi and Clausen, 2020;Stefanini, et al 2020) as a response to the changes in information delivery, knowledge sharing and ways of learning. Most of these studies are based on surveys to reflect students' view on various aspects related to teaching and learning process in the attempt to identify the benefits and challenges related to online education in comparison with the traditional face-to-face learning environment.…”

“…Innovation competencies are key education assets to foster the response to various issues of tourism industry. Methods such as design-based and value-based learning prove to be effective in activating critical thinking, creative problem-solving and team working (Phi and Clausen, 2020). Moreover, employing co-competition strategies and design thinking enhances students' creativity and critical thinking of issues related to tourism sustainability and development of tourism products (Liu, et al 2017;Sándorová, et al 2020).…”

“…As against this heterogeneity of topics, these studies share a common framework of research, namely the combined context of face-to-face and online education systems. Most of them rely on survey as a method of analysis addressing the views and expectations of students as incentives to create content and adapt knowledge delivery means (Huang, et al 2013;Liu, et al 2017;Stefanini, et al 2020;Phi and Clausen, 2020). While we adhere to this research method, our intention is to provide a preliminary evaluation of students' perspective on teaching and learning exclusively based on a digital environment.…”

How does ICT influence residents' attitudes towards tourism as a driver of development? A generalised ordered logistic regression analysis

“…We argue that the support of education to the SET theory lies behind the question of what the students should learn. In this respect, our vision is shared by the recently published paper of Phi and Balslev Clausen (2020) where the authors, based on Ruano-Borbalan ( 2019), discuss the extent to which the learning process should In recent years, several professional education initiatives in the region of Puglia, particularly aimed at unemployed people, have been implemented throughout the region. The majority of these educational initiatives are aimed at favouring the interlinkages between tourism, innovation, and marketing studies.…”