Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Globalisation of Higher Education
Developing Internationalised Education Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of researchers who argue that the continued development...
Two Cheers for Higher Education
Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Ever—and How to Meet the Challenges They Face
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successes
Crushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech controversies, a higher-education market disrupted by online competition—today’s headlines...
Assessment Essentials
Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A comprehensive expansion to the essential higher education assessment text
This second edition of Assessment Essentials updates the bestselling first edition, the go-to resource on outcomes assessment in higher education. In this thoroughly revised edition, you will find, in a familiar framework,...
The Uncertain Future of American Public Higher Education
Student-Centered Strategies for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book addresses the costly non-sustainable policies, programs, practices, and priorities currently driving the tuition crisis in American public higher education. In this era of growing competition among public colleges and universities for more students and higher rankings, their leaders and...
Academics Engaging with Student Writing
Working at the Higher Education Textface
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Student writing has long been viewed as a problem in higher education in the UK. Moreover, the sector has consistently performed poorly in the National Student Survey with regard to assessment and feedback. Academics Engaging with Student Writing tackles these major issues from a new and unique angle,...
by Sabine Hoidn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This book aims to develop a situative educational model to guide the design and implementation of powerful student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms. Rooted in educational science, Hoidn contributes knowledge in the fields of general pedagogy, and more specifically, higher...
Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education
Access, Persistence and Retention
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
While access to higher education has increased globally, student retention has become a major challenge. This book analyses various aspects of the learning pathways of black students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds at a relatively elite, English-medium, historically white South African university....
Massification of Higher Education in Asia
Consequences, Policy Responses and Changing Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This book addresses important questions and puzzles regarding the massification of higher education in Asia. It equips readers to critically evaluate and understand the consequences and challenges that massification entails, while also prompting policymakers and higher education administrators to...
Team-Based Collaboration in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
A Review of the Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education. It explains how academics can work more collaboratively, and how universities can organise and govern themselves by means of collaboration....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The book focuses on teaching knowledge and principles (Higher Education) regarding professional practice of engineering (life and lifelong learning). It covers recent developments in engineering education. This book comprises the select proceedings of the conference organised by the Portuguese Society...
Refugees in Higher Education
Debate, Discourse and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book examines the key debates relating to the rights, responsibilities, policies and practices of the higher education sector when dealing with students from refugee backgrounds.
Exploring the political context of forced migration to countries of settlement, including the impact made...
Higher Education?
How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on track
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?
Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker...
by Rob Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell...
Leading the e-Learning Transformation of Higher Education
Meeting the Challenges of Technology and Distance Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Written by pioneers in the field of online learning, this book offers insights and guidance to the rising generation of leaders in the field of higher education. It explains how to integrate online learning into an institution during a period of rapid social and institutional change.This important volume:...