Review Article

Grand Challenges as Educational Innovations in Higher Education: A Scoping Review of the Literature

Table 1

Search strategy in ERIC.

#QueryResults

S1TI ((Grand or global or societor world) N1 challenge) OR KW ((Grand or global or societor world) N1 challenge) OR AB ((Grand or global or societor world) N1 challenge)841
S2TI (challenging N1 (“social problem”or “global problem”or “world problem”))OR KW (challenging N1 (“social problem”or“global problem”or“world problem”))OR AB (challenging N1 (“social problem”or“global problem”or“world problem”))8
S3TI “integrate module”OR KW “integrate module”OR AB “integrate module4
S4TI “big idea”OR KW “big idea”OR AB “big idea486
S5TI HackathonOR KW HackathonOR AB Hackathon11
S6DE “Problem Solving” AND (DE “Social Problems” OR DE “Social Change” OR DE “Global Approach” OR DE “Science and Society” OR DE “World Problems”)1,146
S7S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4 OR S5 OR S62,478
S8DE “Higher Education” OR DE “Postsecondary Education” OR DE “Universities” or DE “Colleges”492,640
S9DE “Graduate Study” OR DE “Postdoctoral Education” OR DE “Doctoral Programs” OR DE “Graduate Students” OR DE “Masters Programs”35,506
S10DE “Undergraduate Students” OR DE “College Students” OR DE “College Freshmen” OR DE “Undergraduate Study”139,647
S11DE “College Faculty” OR DE “College Instruction”53,752
S12DE “Educational Research” OR DE “Professional Education”64,232
S13TI (undergraduateor graduateor doctoralor studentor professoror instructoror faculty or “preservice teacher”or“pre-service teacher”) OR KW (undergraduateor graduateor doctoralor studentor professoror instructoror faculty or “preservice teacher”or“pre-service teacher”) OR AB (undergraduateor graduateor doctoralor studentor professoror instructoror faculty or “preservice teacher”or “pre-service teacher”)776,672
S14TI (academic or “higher education” or universitor collegeor postsecondary or post-secondary) OR KW (academic or “higher education” or universit or collegeor postsecondary or post-secondary) OR AB (academic or “higher education” or universitor collegeor postsecondary or post-secondary)471,711
S15S8 OR S9 OR S10 OR S11 OR S12 OR S13 OR S141,033,468
S16S7 AND S151,696
S17S7 AND S15
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1,538