Engaging Learning and Innovative Teaching -- Part I. Innovative and Digital Learning Environments -- Educators' experiences in enabling students learning for the VUCA World -- An examination and analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence and gamification in the pedagogy of Chinese higher education -- Peer learning to promote active learning in online/hybrid classes - a case study for science education -- Big data integration in digital marketing education: A focus group study -- The impacts of e-learning and virtual reality on diagnostic radiography education. Part II. Assessment and Development of Future Professional Competencies -- Vocational education input for a sustainable hospitality industry -- Closing competency gaps for engineering students using a competence-based assessment format -- Empowering the future of construction and quantity surveying professionals: Unveiling the skills revolution in New Zealand's construction industry -- Modelling of domain-specific competenceamong technicians (EQF 6) at higher education facilities in Germany and integration thereof in Ackerman9s PPIK Theory as a possible framework -- Re-validating an assessment tool to identify, assess, and develop higher education students' innovation competence in online education -- Part III. Innovative Curriculum Design and Teaching Pedagogies -- Work-life-study balance challenges and the overcoming strategies of women in the New Zealand construction industry -- A philosophical approach to teacher education -- The structure of vocational interests of future technicians (EQF 6) in mechanical engineering for interpreting technical drawings -- Technology-aided learning at the intersection of presence-at-hand and readiness-to-hand, and the fusion of horizons among students, technology, and teachers -- Existential relationship between teacher-centred and student-centred learning inauthentic solicitude as a necessary condition of authentic solicitude -- Hollowing out and reinventing higher education: An individualist perspective.

This book presents research studies investigating innovative curriculum design, effective teaching pedagogies, skilling and assessment of relevant competencies, and innovative and learning-associated technology. The book is categorized into three sections: (I) innovative and digital learning environments; (II) assessment and development of future professional competencies; and (III) innovative curriculum design and teaching pedagogies. It serves as a useful resource for academic instruction in higher education. Employers, administrators, practitioners, postgraduate students, and postsecondary students in general will also find it informative.