Higher Education category: 3664 books
Christian Higher Education
A Global Reconnaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America,...
Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities
Implementing Massification in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This edited volume examines the importance of quality issues in contemporary higher education systems in the Asia Pacific. Part One foregrounds relevant discussions of ‘quality’ within today’s globalized, interconnected, and complex higher education systems while Part Two focuses on selected...
Handbook of Research on Blended Learning Pedagogies and Professional Development in Higher Education
Handbook of Research on Blended Learning Pedagogies and Professional Development in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Online and blended courses are becoming increasingly prevalent in higher education settings, and the pressures to incorporate these environments highlights the increased demand to serve a generation that prefers learning through experience or through interacting with learning tools. Challenges arise...
The Forefront of International Higher Education
A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This book honors the academic trajectory and global impact of Philip G. Altbach, one of the most important education comparativists worldwide for over forty years. From his early writings on India and student activism to his recent work on research universities, Altbach has served as a key developer...
Transdisciplinary Higher Education
A Theoretical Basis Revealed in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us. Transdisciplinarity is a phenomenological perspective of reality...
by Jan Arminio, Tomoko Kudo Grabosky, Josh Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Student Veterans and Service Members in Higher Education bridges theory to practice in order to better prepare practitioners in their efforts to increase the success of veteran and military service members in higher education. Bringing together perspectives from a researcher, practitioner, and student...
Our Higher Calling
Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
There is a growing sense of crisis and confusion about the purpose and sustainability of higher education in the United States. In the midst of this turmoil, students are frequently referred to as customers and faculty as employees, educational outcomes are increasingly measured in terms of hiring...
Mobile Learning and Higher Education
Challenges in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Mobile Learning and Higher Education provides case studies of mobile learning in higher education settings to showcase how devices can transform learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With the rapid diffusion of networked technologies among the adult populations of many countries and the...
Collaborative Working in Higher Education
The Social Academy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Collaborative working is an increasingly vital part of Higher Education academic life. Traditionally, university culture supported individual research and scholarship. Today, the focus has shifted from the individual to the group or team. Collaborative Working in Higher Education takes the reader...
Improving Student Retention in Higher Education
The Role of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities...
Higher Education Institutions and Learning Management Systems
Adoption and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
E-learning plays a significant role in education, and its importance increases day by day. Learning environments can take a myriad of distinct forms. Learning management systems (LMS) have emerged as an important platform to support effective learning environments. Learning management systems are used...
Black Men in Higher Education
A Guide to Ensuring Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Black Men in Higher Education bridges theory to practice in order to better prepare practitioners in their efforts to increase the success of Black male students in colleges and universities. In this comprehensive but manageable text, leading researchers J. Luke Wood and Robert T. Palmer highlight...
Refocusing the Self in Higher Education
A Phenomenological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In higher education literature, theories of learning and development have largely been adapted from psychology to the exclusion of basic insights from philosophy. This volume addresses the gaps in higher education’s theoretical base created by this inattention to philosophy and reflects on the significance...
by Stephen Billett
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific...