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There has been a shift in the last year with respect to the protest trends of the transnational protest movement or the global justice movement. In 2008, the World Social Forum (WSF), which has organized large scale protests rejecting global capitalism all over the global asked its member to stay home & conduct local press conferences as opposed to attend the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The author argues the WSF move away from centrally coordinated protests signals two new trends within the international protest movement: first, protestors are increasingly defined & united behind what they stand against as opposed to what they strand for; & second, the common rejection a centralized, bureaucratic structure for the international protest movement. Additionally, the article examines similarities & differences between the international protest movement & mainstream nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) & discusses the ways in which international organizations & states respond to trends within the international protest movement. C. Goger

Quality assurance in global higher education is a top policy consideration for many nations. Since the 1980s, global universities, in response to government and societal pressure, have become more business-like and enterprising to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the so-called global knowledge economy. This corporatization of higher education is tied to increasing enrollments and intensification of educational quality assurance of online learning. But the pandemic brough rapid and substantial change to the use of online learning because it was the only service available to continue education. What now, has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the relationships between online learning and quality assurance?