Higher Education category: 3664 books
Multidimensional Ranking
The Design and Development of U-Multirank
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
During the last decades ranking has become one of the most controversial issues in higher education and research. It is widely recognized now that, although some of the current rankings can be severely criticized, they seem to be here to stay. In addition, rankings appear to have a great impact on...
Culture Centers in Higher Education
Perspectives on Identity, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"This book makes a unique contribution to the higher education literature by thoroughly exploring culture centers. Although the research on cultural centers and their effect on predominantly White Institutions is minimal, Patton should be applauded for her effort to shed light on their importance. This...
by Kerry Shephard
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in higher education have the capacity and willingness...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and advances in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. This research handbook provides higher education...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
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: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative...
College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities
The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students’ opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice...
by Charles Wankel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
As interaction in higher education among faculty, staff, students, and others becomes ever more digital, the welter of new online communication technologies have provided many unintentional opportunities for indiscipline and misconduct. As a result of this unfortunate increase is misbehavior, administrators...
The Realities of Change in Higher Education
Interventions to Promote Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The Realities of Change in Higher Education explores the theory and practice of the everyday reality of change to promote learning and teaching in universities. Drawing on international case studies, it analyses a range of practical strategies to promote change that enhance students’ learning.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
International students experience multiple and multi-dimensional educational and life transitions: moving to a new country, moving to a new educational system and moving to higher educational degree programmes. Within these transitions, they experience differences in the social and organisational...
Universities and the Occult Rituals of the Corporate World
Higher Education and Metaphorical Parallels with Myth and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Universities and the Occult Rituals of the Corporate World explores the metaphorical parallels between corporatised, market-oriented universities and aspects of the occult. In the process, the book shows that the forms of mystery, mythmaking and ritual now common in restructured institutions of higher...
The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People
Making educational futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for...
Internationalization of Higher Education
An Analysis through Spatial, Network, and Mobilities Theories
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book provides a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades. Drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network, and mobilities theories, the book shifts our thinking away from linear, binary, Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Higher learning has seen an increase in web-based distance education programs, which coincides with advancements made in educational technologies. As these programs are on the rise, it becomes increasingly more important to ensure that instructional designers are prepared to accommodate the needs...