Higher Education category: 3664 books
Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies
Towards a transformative higher education pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Although emerging technologies are becoming popularised for teaching, learning and research, the relationship between their use and transformative effects on higher education remain largely unexplored. This edited collection seeks to fill this gap by providing a nuanced view, locating higher education...
Higher Education and Silicon Valley
Connected but Conflicted
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Universities and colleges often operate between two worlds: higher education and economic systems. With a mission rooted in research, teaching, and public service, institutions of higher learning are also economic drivers in their regions, under increasing pressure to provide skilled workers to local...
International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
Improving Knowledge and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education. Once labelled the ‘poor relation’ of the research/teaching divide, teaching is now firmly on the policy agenda; pressure on institutions to improve the quality of teaching has never been greater and significant...
by Dean O. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Within the complex environment of higher education, administrators and faculty members face daunting challenges in their unique domains of institutional governance. Many of the greatest challenges arise from basic misunderstandings of authority and its limitations by administrators and faculty members...
by Joseph E. Garcia, Karen J. Hoelscher
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings. The authors...
by Robin Starr Minthorn, Heather J. Shotton, Charlotte Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous...
Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book provides the first academically rigorous description and critical analysis of the Higher Education system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and of the vision, strategies and policy imperatives for the future development of Saudi universities. The government of Saudi Arabia has recognized in...
Higher Education Choice in China
Social stratification, gender and educational inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Much of the existing research on parental involvement and higher education choice examines the difference between the working class and the middle class, but little literature looks at different factions within the social classes. This book discusses higher education choice in China, particularly...
Global University Rankings
Challenges for European Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies,...
Accountability in Higher Education
Global Perspectives on Trust and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public...
Higher Education in Southeast Asia
Blurring Borders, Changing Balance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...
For the Common Good
A New History of Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?
In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America’s so-called crisis...
The Branding of the American Mind
How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or student who created or discovered it in the course...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes...