Computer Science category: 2288 books
Mapping Holistic Learning
An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his...
Outliving Your Dissertation
A Guide for Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters. Unique to this edition is its conception of the dissertation in optimistic, realistic, and symbolic terms, which altogether provide theoretical basis and practical...
Breakbeat Pedagogy
Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of...
by Ludovic Highman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important...
Educators Queering Academia
Critical Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in...
The Idea of the University
A Reader, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810....
You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us
Becoming an Ubuntu, Responsive and Responsible Urban Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve. Drawing on the African concept of Ubuntu as a fundamental framework for enacting a humanizing pedagogy, the text...
Higher Education Modelling
Development, Application and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book deals with the feasibility analysis of market-oriented Higher Education Institutions based on the data of international field survey. The topics under examinations require the use of qualitative methods: guideline-oriented open expert interviews in different countries for data collection,...
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education
Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and...
by Gerald M. Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Systems analysis and design have solved many problems, but they have also created many problems. This unique book tackles crucial analysis and design issues that are glossed over in conventional texts. It recognizes that while many problems are solved with systems analysis and design, many problems...
Total Data - Total Control
Nulltoleranz in allen Lebensbereichen
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Die modernen Informationstechnologien verbessern sich laufend, und ihre Möglichkeiten scheinen schier grenzenlos. Alle realen Geschehnisse werden detailgenau erfasst und sind beliebig auswertbar - Big Data ist zum Begriff der Stunde geworden. Die erhöhte Granularität der Daten eröffnet grundsätzlich...
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Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Der Sammelband thematisiert die Schulreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone im Jahr 1946. Ziele, Inhalte und gesetzliche Grundlegung dieser Reform werden unter historischen, juristischen, schulgeschichtlichen und pädagogischen Aspekten analysiert. Geprägt wurde die Reform von der vielfältigen...
Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems V
IFIP TC11 / WG11.5 Fifth Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS) November 11–12, 2002, Bonn, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems V represents a continuation of the dialogue between researchers, information security specialists, internal control specialists and the business community. The objectives of this dialogue are:
-To present methods and techniques that will help business...
by Gregor Petri
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Cloud Computing is the most discussed IT innovation of recent times. This Primer provides a structured overview of what Cloud Computing is and what the potential benefits and risks are. In addition it explores how Cloud Computing will impact IT management and IT's role in the organization as...