Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students’ tertiary experience. Despite this, there has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This volume offers new perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. It discusses and illustrates ways that leadership norms, values, assumptions and behaviors...
Teacher Professionalism in Further and Higher Education
Challenges to Culture and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Teachers from further and higher education are rarely considered together. This book explores the differences and similarities that exist between these groups. It provides an up-to-date account of developments and brings together arguments and debates about both groups of teachers to challenge some...
Transnational Education
Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon. Transnational education is at the leading-edge of the most fundamental changes taking place in higher...
by Dr Brian J. Brown, Dr Sally Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods. People who have to interpret research would do a better job if they were able to interrogate research...
Reconceptualising Feedback in Higher Education
Developing dialogue with students
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Feedback is a crucial element of teaching, learning and assessment. There is, however, substantial evidence that staff and students are dissatisfied with it, and there is growing impetus for change.
Student Surveys have indicated that feedback is one of the most problematic aspects of the student...
Women, Economic Development, and Higher Education
Tools in the Reconstruction and Transformation of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the intersection, relationship, and connection between higher education, economic development, and gender in post-Apartheid South Africa. In just twenty years, South Africa has rewritten its constitution, restructured its macroeconomic growth and development...
Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
The key guide to designing and delivering courses
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education brings together contemporary ideas on leadership, engagement and student learning into a practical solutions-based resource designed for those undertaking the challenge of leading a university-level teaching module, programme or suite of programmes,...
by Samuel D. Museus
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Asian American Students in Higher Education offers the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of existing theory and research related to Asian American students’ experiences in postsecondary education. Providing practical and insightful recommendations, this sourcebook covers a range of topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
In an increasingly complex, competitive, and global world, organizations require highly skilled professionals who have the capacity to proactively answer challenges. Thus, educational institutions must update the curricula of their courses to better contribute to the training and development of professionals...
Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within...
In the Company of Scholars
The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to achieve." A remarkable admission from an alumnus of Harvard Law School who has held tenured professorships in the law schools of Yale and Stanford and has taught in the law...
Higher Education in the Asian Century
The European legacy and the future of Transnational Education in the ASEAN region
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
There is increasing interest in the Asian arena; both as a home for the delivery of international higher education and as a breeding ground for a new brand of sustainable domestic and international growth. Academics are increasingly turning to Asia and Asian Education in order to better understand...
Mitigating Inequality
Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Now more than ever, the issue of access to higher education for all is a matter of global importance. As colleges and universities worldwide increasingly extend their academic programs abroad, develop internationally mixed research teams and create international curricular initiatives, it is essential...