Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Kay Sambell, Liz McDowell, Catherine Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"an invaluable guide for practitioners, quality assurors, university managers and students themselves who wish to better understand the importance of assessment for learning, and it will further scholarship in the field significantly."
-Professor Sally Brown
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Training Higher Education Policy Makers and Leaders
A Graduate Program Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Higher Education is a vibrant, changing field of study. With roots in multiple disciplines, these degree programs prepare the administrators, faculty, and policy makers who direct the current and future higher education enterprise. At a time when higher education is changing rapidly, these programs...
Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific
Strategic Responses to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to...
Higher Education in Portugal 1974-2009
A Nation, a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A comprehensive, wide ranging and detailed account of the unfolding of higher education and higher education policy in Portugal from 1974 to 2009 by leading policy-makers and scholars, with the explicit purpose of showing how different disciplinary canons and perspectives contribute to the study of...
Researching Higher Education in Asia
History, Development and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book discusses higher education research as a field of study in Asia. It traces the evolution of research in the field of higher education in several Asian countries, and shares ideas about the evolving higher education research communities in Asia. It also identifies common and dissimilar challenges...
by Terry Wu
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book examines both the theory and applications of marketing higher education in a global environment. Universities and colleges face new challenges in student recruitment and international competition. This book is designed to offer new insights into international marketing of higher education. With...
Higher Education beyond Job Creation
Universities, Citizenship, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security...
Technology Integration in Higher Education
Social and Organizational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
As technology expands and becomes more powerful and pervasive, there is growing discussion of the innovative ways that technology can be used. While it is obviously important to consider the technical aspects of any new technology, there is a critical need for more discussion related to the social and...
by Jeroen Huisman, Malcolm Tight
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies are being...
Online Learning and its Users
Lessons for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Online Learning and Its Users: Lessons for Higher Education re-examines the impact of learning technologies in higher education. The book focuses particularly on the introduction and mainstreaming of one of the most widely used, the virtual learning environment (VLE) or learning management system...
by Noam Neusner
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic world in which few publish (95 percent of publications come from 5 percent of the professors), insisting...
Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Transgressing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this work...
RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES?
Higher Education Institutions in Networked Knowledge Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book provides an overview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS). The main aim of this international comparative research project is the analysis of how Higher education institutions are networked within...
Faculty Development in Chinese Higher Education
Concepts, Practices, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
This book provides a framework for investigating faculty development in the Chinese higher education system, and proposes a faculty development model, which is subsequently applied to assess the conceptual, practical and strategic dimensions of Chinese faculty development. The proposed framework is...