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This book seeks to understand the effects of the current information revolution on universities by examining the effects of two previous information revolutions: Gutenberg’s invention and proof of printing in 1450 and the Scientific Revolution from the mid- fifteenth...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades. Drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network, and mobilities theories, the book shifts our thinking away...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-23
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-20
Collection :
Philanthropy and Education
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Sharpen advising expertise by exploring critical issues affecting the field Beyond Foundations, a core resource for experienced academic advisors, gives practitioners insight into important issues affecting academic advising. In addition to gaining understanding of...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2016-09-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-26
Collection :
Issues in Higher Education
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book illustrates the higher education quality assurance system and its impact on institutional transformation in China. It starts by describing the higher education system in China and its quality assessment schemes. It discusses in detail the Quality Assessment of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-05-03
Collection :
Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance
Format(s) : ePub
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Volume XXIX/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-04-14
Format(s) : PDF
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A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of...
Editeur : Chandos Publishing
Parution : 2016-03-21
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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Practical "brain-aware" facilitation tailored to the adult brain Facilitating Learning with the Adult Brain in Mind explains how the brain works, and how to help adults learn, develop, and perform more effectively in various settings. Recent neurobiological discoveries...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2016-02-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2016-01-26
Format(s) : ePub
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What do equity-oriented practices look like in different community college contexts? Given the increasing role of the community college in realizing equitable outcomes for students, examples of what practitioners are doing to move forward an equity agenda are urgently...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2015-12-01
Collection :
J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Eva Lingg präsentiert verschiedene Gestaltungslogiken, die beim Neubau von Hochschulen aufeinandertreffen. Sie stellt vor, wie sich diese in Planungsverfahren einbringen lassen und schließlich in der Materialisierung sichtbar werden. Die Autorin identifiziert...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2015-11-05
Collection :
Sozialraumforschung und Sozialraumarbeit
Format(s) : PDF
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Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes important...
Editeur : Chandos Publishing
Parution : 2015-10-19
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in...
Editeur : Chandos Publishing
Parution : 2015-08-24
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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This is an exciting time to be an academic advisor—a time in which global recognition of the importance of advising is growing, research affirms the critical role advising plays in student success, and institutions of higher education increasingly view advising as...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2015-08-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Keep students engaged and actively learning with focused, relevant discussion Second only to lecture as the most widely used instructional strategy, there's no better method than classroom discussion to actively engage students with course material. Most faculty are...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2015-04-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A clear, systematic road map to effective campus leadership development Building Academic Leadership Capacity gives institutions the knowledge they need to invest in the next generation of academic leaders. With a clear, generalizable, systematic approach, this book...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2015-01-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Enrich your students and the institution with a high-impact practice Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses is a practical, research-backed guide to creating a course that is valuable for both the student and the school. The book covers the design,...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2014-12-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF’s central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes against actual practices of scholarly review as found in academic...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2014-12-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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