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Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds
Strategies for Online Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning
Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds
Strategies for Online Instruction
Clark Aldrich
Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds
The infusion of games, simulations, and virtual...
by Viviane Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their...
Management and Organization Theory
A Jossey-Bass Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Management and Organization Theory offers a summary and analysis of the 40 most popular, researched, and applied management and organization theories. This important resource includes key instruments used to measure variables in each theory and examines pertinent questions about the theory: strengths...
Issues in Distance Education
New Directions for Higher Education, Number 173
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In this environment of disruptive technological change, higher education institutions must determine whether they will develop and offer technology-supported, hybrid, or online courses and degrees, which courses and degrees, how many, for whom, and for what purpose. They must make decisions about...
Comprehensive Reform for Student Success
New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 176
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Community colleges face pressure to “do more with less” that have prompted many college leaders to consider fundamental changes to the ways they have typically done business. Because piecemeal solutions have not often been effective or efficient, colleges are moving far beyond discreet “programs”...
Understanding Equity in Community College Practice
New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 172
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
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 needed.
The diverse perspectives...
Leading for the Future: Alignment of AACC Competencies with Practice
New Directions for Community College, Number 159
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The AACC competencies were initially developed to help provide guidance in developing community college leaders because of predictions of a leadership crisis in the two-year college sector.
Since their creation, the competencies have been used to direct topics in leadership development programs...
Adult Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 131
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Delve into the nature and mystery of wisdom in adult education, and what it might mean for the practice of adult education in the complexity of changing times.
This issue begins with a look at the nature of wisdom, the wisdom of nature, and how it relates to current issues in the field of adult...
by James P. Spillane
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the...
Student Affairs Professionals Cultivating Campus Climates Inclusive of International Students
New Directions for Student Services, Number 158
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
With the increase in the international student population, student affairs professionals need a deeper understanding of the challenges and benefits of globalizing a campus. This volume:
Examines how student affairs professionals and their campus partners might welcome diverse populations of international...
Reimaging Doctoral Education as Adult Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This volume looks at graduate education, specifically the doctorate, through the lens of adult education practice. Students in doctoral programs are, after all, adults. Building on principles of adult learning, the authors provide examples of academic excellence achieved through the incorporation...
Constructivism Reconsidered in the Age of Social Media
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 144
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
No longer relegated to just the classroom, learning has become universal through the use of social media. Social media embodies constructivism itself as the users engage in the development of their own meaning. And, constructivism is relevant to education, and learning theory and technological advance...
Transnational Migration, Social Inclusion, and Adult Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 146
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
As a result of transnational migration, many countries are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse, creating both new opportunities and challenges for practices of adult education. This volume examines the changing nature of adult education in the age of increased transnational migration and:
•...
Applying College Change Theories to Student Affairs Practice
New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 174
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Student affairs professionals are critical to the efforts to improve students' experiences and outcomes--especially in two-year institutions. This volume explores the history of student development and college impact theories and models in relation to two-year institutions.
Topics covered include:
analysis...