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Augmented Education
Bringing Real and Virtual Learning Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Including relevant case studies and interviews with practitioners, Augmented Education explores the nature of learning where the 'real world' is augmented by use of the virtual to create new learning possibilities, tools, and environments. and offers insights into the development of a pedagogy that is authentic, inclusive and enjoyable.
Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms
The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award
This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher...
Digital Education
Opportunities for Social Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education. The book aims to examine a number of foundational aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development.
Education in the Age of Biocapitalism
Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.
Craft in Biomedical Research
The iPS Cell Technology and the Future of Stem Cell Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology. The revolutionary iPS cell technology has made it possible to turn human skin and blood cells into pluripotent stem cells, thus providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the pathophysiology of diseases, understand human...
Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks
Local and Global Environmental Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations
Globalizing Ideal Beauty
Women, Advertising, and the Power of Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Globalizing Ideal Beauty is the forgotten history of a group of women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from Bangor to Bangkok. Sutton's approach is grounded in a huge body of original archival research that has so far remained largely untapped.
University Governance and Reform
Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate.
The Future of Decision Making
How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to Decide
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
We now possess the capability to make great business decisions in even the most difficult situations with the use of today's advanced software capability. The authors, who are experts in the field, explain the new science of decision-making and offer examples and advice that will enable readers put it to use in their organizations.
by H. Olsen, D. Scala
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold. Its focus on party factions allows readers to understand the process and to predict who the eventual nominee will be. In particular, the authors explore why a conservative party always...
Gaming Globally
Production, Play, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Video games are inherently transnational by virtue of industrial, textual, and player practices. The contributors touch upon nations not usually examined by game studies - including the former Czechoslovakia, Turkey, India, and Brazil - and also add new perspectives to the global hubs of China, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and the United States.
Making the Invisible Visible
Understanding Leadership Contributions of Asian Minorities in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership.
The Nonprofit Challenge
Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of Our Nation’s Charities
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society - business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective journey.
The Engaged Campus
Certificates, Minors, and Majors as the New Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Engaged Campus offers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in community engagement at their respective institutions.