Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The elearning research literature is characterized by studies that investigate the practice of teaching and learning online (pedagogy) and those that investigate the planning and administrative functions associated with elearning delivery (management). This edited volume directs attention to pedagogy...
Men of Color in Higher Education
New Foundations for Developing Models for Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
“Men of Color in Higher Education embraces asset-based models like the one developed at UMBC – and it holds practitioners accountable for being precise about what we mean when we talk about improving student success and providing better support for students of color. Whether examining the outcomes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This book focuses on models, strengths, opportunities, constraints and tensions in internationalisation in Vietnamese higher education. It reflects on key concepts from contemporary theories and models of internationalisation and discusses the implications for innovation, flexibility and responsiveness...
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions
International Innovations in Widening Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions: International Innovations in Widening Participation shows that widening participation initiatives and policies have had a profound impact on improving access to higher education to historically marginalized groups of students from diverse socioeconomic and cultural...
Higher Education in the Global Age
Policy, Practice and Promise in Emerging Societies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Discussions on globalization now routinely focus on the economic impact of developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Only twenty-five years ago, many developing countries were largely closed societies. Today, the growing power of “emerging...
Learning to Seek
Globalization, Governance, and the Futures of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available online. This volume focuses on the normative...
English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education
Policy, Challenges and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education provides a touchstone for higher education practitioners, researchers and policy makers. It enables readers to more clearly understand why policies concerning English-medium instruction (EMI) are in place in Japan, how EMI is being implemented,...
Assuring Quality in Online Education
Practices and Processes at the Teaching, Resource, and Program Levels
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
“From departmental, institutional, state, and national levels, Kay Shattuck has masterfully collected a great overview of the scope of issues relating to quality in on-line education with concrete examples to assist newcomers to this field. The experts she has assembled for this book make it a valuable...
by Nancy T. Watson, Lei Xie, Matthew J. Etchells
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Cultural Impact on Conflict Management in Higher Education shares information regarding conflict management and resolution in higher education from a global perspective. In this book, we introduced many conflict resolution methods from different regions in the world. You can borrow some successful...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This volume seeks to identify and explore the forces affecting higher education in the Asia Pacific region today. It includes a set of conceptually-rich organizing chapters followed by detailed country-specific studies that detail both the underlying dynamics of these forces and the manner in which...
Pathways to Academic Success in Higher Education
Expanding Opportunity for Underrepresented Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Pathways to Academic Success in Higher Education examines two major challenges facing the nation. The first is preparing high school students for college, a reform that has been tackled largely through state policy initiatives. The second is creating new pathways to academic success for underrepresented...
by Paul Trowler
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This little book gives an overview of my module on Policy and Change Processes in Higher Education, part of an entirely online PhD programme. Its aim is to give readers some feel for the content but especially the kinds of processes we engage in during that module. The module runs for 28 weeks, of...
Meaning-Centered Education
International Perspectives and Explorations in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In a time of globally changing environments and economic challenges, many institutions of higher education are attempting to reform by promoting standardization approaches. Meaning-Centered Education explores the counter-tide for an alternative vision of education, where students and instructors engage...
Beyond the Asterisk
Understanding Native Students in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“Within this important and long overdue addition to the literature, higher education faculty and administrators have important new resources for helping shift the landscape of Native American college student experiences toward success. The importance of this particular new text cannot be understated....