Higher Education category: 3664 books
Academic Bildung in Net-based Higher Education
Moving beyond learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The explosive emergence of net-based learning in higher education brings with it new possibilities and constraints in teaching and learning environments.This edited collection considers how the concept of Academic Bildung - a term suggesting a personal educational process beyond actual educational...
Assembling and Governing the Higher Education Institution
Democracy, Social Justice and Leadership in Global Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book emphasizes the inherently democratic nature of education; from those who practice in higher education institutions and are involved in decision-making, to those questioning the methods of reform processes in those institutions. As they are faced with increasing pressures to restructure and...
by Malcolm Tight, Jeroen Huisman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is 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...
Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education
Enhanced Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
During the last decade, the Internet has driven some of the most significant changes in higher education. Since information and communication technologies (ICTs) impact how we educate, teach, and learn, researchers, teachers, and other stakeholders in higher education must be prepared to meet students...
Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education
The Perspectives of the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. This book analyzes recent changes in institutional governance and management in higher education and their impact on the academy...
Mergers in Higher Education
The Experience from Northern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden,...
Clark Kerr's University of California
Leadership, Diversity, and Planning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This volume provides an intellectual history of Kerr's vision of the multiversity, as expressed in his most famous work, The Uses of the University, and in his greatest administrative accomplishment, the California Master Plan for Higher Education. Building upon Kerr's use of the visionary hedgehog/shrewd...
Higher Education in The Caribbean
Research, Challenges And Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book on Higher Education in the Caribbean, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twentyfirst century and its emphasis is on the financial and social commitments of Higher Education. The book examined research tendencies, experiences, challenges and practices to rethink...
Refugee Background Students Transitioning Into Higher Education
Navigating Complex Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book is one of the first of its kind to examine the aspirations of refugee background students and accompanies them as they journey through the on-shore stage of settlement, enrolment and participation in the Australian education system. It begins with students’ experiences of on-shore settlement,...
Perspectives on Diverse Student Identities in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face increasing pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention...
Higher Education in the High North
Academic Exchanges between Norway and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
This book establishes gender issues as a major focus within developments shaping higher education in the Asia Pacific region. The discussion is framed as a response to various dedicated efforts, such as that of the United Nations, to foreground gender as a site for political discourse throughout the...
by William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. Lee, Neal H. Hutchens
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Your must-have resource on the law of higher education Written by recognized experts in the field, the latest edition of The Law of Higher Education offers college administrators, legal counsel, and researchers with the most up-to-date, comprehensive...
by Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the ‘access agenda’ over the past two decades....