Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law addresses legal issues from institutions of higher learning in seventeen countries on all six inhabited continents in a reader friendly manner. All chapters follow the same outline on institutional issues, faculty rights, student rights, and emerging...
The Organization of Higher Education
Managing Colleges for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts...
Higher Education and the American Dream
Success and its Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"Marvin Lazerson’s new book is exactly what is needed: a readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.” —Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers College, Columbia University,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The integration of new technology and global collaboration has undoubtedly transformed learning in higher education from the traditional classroom setting into a domain of support services, academic programs, and educational products which are made available to learners. The Handbook of Research on Transnational...
Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education
Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Australian Offshore Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education explores issues and questions concerning the provision of quality teaching and learning in university programs delivered ‘offshore’. The focus of the book is on what makes for a good and successful education in the context of transnational programs...
by Paul Ramsden
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory. This new edition has been fully revised and updated in view of the extensive changes which have taken place in higher education over the last decade and includes new material on the higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Higher education leaders, managers, human resource professionals, faculty, and staff increasingly face uncivil, bullying behaviors in academe. This can manifest itself as constant public humiliation by a new department chair, exclusion of a contingent faculty member, undermining of work performance...
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Published under the Sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected...
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education
Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Student and Modern Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape...
by Jouko Sarvi, Hitendra Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Higher education institutions in Asia and the Pacific, modeled on industrial age thinking that demands excellence in routinized capacities, lack the ability to innovate and create new knowledge enterprises. The transition to a knowledge economy is affecting the purpose, content, pedagogy, and methodologies...
Higher Education Governance in East Asia
Transformations under Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia. Focusing on China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan, it explains the implications of how state-centered political systems interpret political...
Reforming Higher Education
Public Policy Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This book analyzes the reforms that led to a differentiated landscape of higher education systems after university practices and governance were considered poorly adapted to contemporary settings and to their new missions. This has led to a growing institutional differentiation in many higher education...
Communities of Practice
Facilitating Social Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In this book about communities of practice in the international, higher education sector, the authors articulate the theoretical foundations of communities of practice (CoPs), research into their application in higher education, leadership roles and how CoPs sustain and support professional learning....