High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) in Educational Media: Towards a Proposed Vision for the Sustainability of Egyptian Specific Education

Sustainable education and teaching excellence in Egypt remain significant challenges due to the persistent reliance on conventional and theoretical curricula, highlighting the dire importance of innovative practices for educators. Specific education should be encouraged at higher education levels, particularly in educational media. However, its adoption remains challenging due to unclear objectives and ineffective practices. High-impact educational practices (HIEPs) would provide an incentive for improved learning among the students. Thus, the current study focuses on the high impact of educational practices in exploring the importance of HIEPs in higher education in general and the educational media for specific education at Mansoura University in particular. Fifty faculty members in the field of educational media from specific educational colleges across various Egyptian universities participated in the survey. The study identifies the government's focus on quantity over quality, poor teaching standards, and social inequalities as critical factors necessitating the implementation of HIEPs. In turn, all these practices add to deriving improved engagement, delivery of transferable and elementary skills, or synthesizing learning from related courses. The study concluded that it is important for the Department of Educational Media and its sub-specialties, including Drama, Educational Theatre, Radio, Television, and Educational Journalism, to integrate HIEPs and foster innovative practices in theatre education, in light of the 21st-century skills, skills gaps, ICT implementation, and support of teachers to increase the sustainability, particularly in educational media.