Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Pruning The Ivy
The Overdue Reformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Higher education in America is the best in the world, but it is also desperately in need of reform. Lacking effective competition and insulated from market forces, universities have created a model fundamentally at odds with free market principles. In a system few outsiders comprehend, universities...
Career Counseling Across the Lifespan
Community, School, and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, and Higher Education is the latest volume in the Issues in Career Development Book Series, edited by Grafton Eliason, John Patrick, and Jeff Samide, from California University of Pennsylvania. The purpose of Career Development Across the Lifespan...
End of Academic Freedom
The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse...
Informing the Practice of Teaching Using Formative and Interim Assessment
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book focuses on interim and formative assessments as distinguished from the more usual interest in summative assessment. I was particularly interested in seeing what the experts have to say about a full system of assessment. This book has particular interest in what information a teacher, a school...
Predator's GameChanging Designs
ResearchBased Tools
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
When the tried and true formula for an organization’s performance (its game plan) begins to fail, it must change its game or become obsolete. Publicly recognizing that the old formula is becoming less useful and a new formula must be developed and implemented is difficult for most stakeholders, but...
Authentic Personal Brand Coaching
Entrepreneurial Leadership Brand Coaching for Sustainable High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book offers an advanced breakthrough formula to build, implement, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, and memorable personal brand, which forms the key to enduring personal success. This new personal branding blueprint entails a systematic and integrated journey towards selfawareness, happiness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Behavioral Perspectives on Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary...
Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures
Cybercultures in Online Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of elearning. Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas, philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely contradictory....
by Mirjana RadovicMarkovic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The "new" in new economy means a more stable and longer growth, with more jobs, lower inflation and interest rates, explosion of free markets worldwide, the unparalleled access to knowledge through the Internet and new type of organization which affects organizational change. Organizational change is...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary...
The Virtual World of Work
How to Gain Competitive Advantage through the Virtual Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The purpose of this book project is to analyze why the workplace is changing so rapidly, identify the enabling factors and understand what we can do to best prepare for the future. The analysis led to four significant factors which are all fundamental to the formation of the future world of work. They...
Complexity and Knowledge Management
Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
It seems as if attempts to use knowledge to understand and manage social networks are everywhere. Millions, if not billions, of dollars are being spent in an attempt to derail terrorist networks, with much of it being invested in making sense of massive data streams. There is growing concern that...
Exploring the School Choice Universe
Evidence and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers crosscutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice...
Transcendental Learning
The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of...