Higher Education category: 3664 books
Managing Your Professional Identity Online
A Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In higher education, professional online identities have become increasingly important. A rightly worded tweet can cause an academic blog post to go viral. A wrongly worded tweet can get a professor fired. Regular news items in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed provide evidence...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including institutions of higher education. Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unique ways...
Higher Education in Ethiopia
Structural Inequalities and Policy Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book focuses on higher education in Ethiopia, analysing persisting inequalities and policy responses against the backdrop of the extensive expansion and reform that the system has experienced in recent years. Drawing on empirical data generated through interviews, policy reviews and focus-group...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Education is the foundation to almost all successful lives. It is vital that learning opportunities are available on a global scale, regardless of individual disabilities or differences, and to create more inclusive educational practices. Disability and Equity in Higher Education Accessibility is...
by Robert Kelchen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
As the price tag of higher education continues to rise, colleges and universities across the country are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value. Graded on numerous metrics, including cost and ability to prepare students for the job market, colleges must satisfy requirements from multiple...
Strategic Diversity Leadership
Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A conceptual and evidence-based framework for addressing diversity, and blueprint for rethinking institutional strategies and organizational structures for effective implementation“The book is a moral compass for how we are to proceed in the 21st century, necessitating that we take risks into uncharted...
Professionalism in Practice
Key Directions in Higher Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement. It offers numerous pragmatic illustrations of...
Developing Academics
The essential higher education handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Academics work in a highly complex world where they must build integrative capabilities and outcomes as teachers, researchers and leaders. As they progress from novice to expert their evolving identities, methodologies and strategies need to be well-attuned to their own strengths and the sectoral...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Media is rapidly evolving, from social media to news channels, individuals are being bombarded with headlines, new technologies, and varying opinions. Teaching the next generation of communication professionals how to interact with varying forms of media is paramount as they will be the future distributors...
by Robert A. Rhoads
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs)...
Voices of Asian Americans in Higher Education
Unheard Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Voices of Asian Americans in Higher Education: Unheard Voices is a unique and historical book. Asian Americans are often portrayed as “model minority”, yet their personal and educational experiences are often unheard. In this book, 10 Asian American educators and scholars present realistic pictures...
Focusing on the Underserved
Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recent discussions and dissemination of information regarding the rapid growth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across our nation are creating some awareness among administrators and educators in higher education institutions regarding the extensive diversity of AAPIs, the struggles...
The Flipped Classroom
Practice and Practices in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning within higher education continues to evolve with innovative and new practices such as flipped teaching. This book contributes to the literature by developing a much deeper understanding of the complex phenomenon of flipped classroom approaches within higher education. It also...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...