Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education. It captures the experiences of senior administrators and managers to the complexity of problems that quality development involves. The authors draw attention to the human-centred...
Guiding the American University
Contemporary Challenges and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
American higher education is under unprecedented pressure, beginning with the public funding and student debt crises and extending to inadequate performance in student retention and growing global competition. Respected educator and scholar Peter N. Stearns breaks down the underlying problems, exploring...
The Changing Face of Higher Education
Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Over the last decade, a heated debate has raged in the US and the UK over whether the humanities are in crisis, and, if there is one, what form this crisis takes and what the response should be. Questioning how there can be such disagreement over a fundamental point, The Changing Face of Higher Education...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education—including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property—is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful...
Crisis in Higher Education
Role Analysis of Teachers in a University System
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This research study on higher education is based on three systematic samples—teachers, students and educational superiors. A thorough analysis on these basis has been done in order to enhance the role effectiveness of teachers so as to reduce the prevailing crisis in higher education.
Engaging the "Race Question"
Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California, coauthors...
Widening Higher Education Participation
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes important insights from 23 leading scholars...
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Studies of Three Student Development Programs
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Concerns with how students are taught, and whether and how they learn, has become particularly salient in higher education. This is evident in growing awareness of increases in time-to-degree and declines in attainment rates for many students, including those who are underrepresented, in our nation’s...
Academics’ International Teaching Journeys
Personal Narratives of Transitions in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching. The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar...
by Iain Mac Labhrainn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume provides an original and powerful contribution to debates about the civic purpose of higher education. It suggests that universities can best realize their civic mission by making it central to their policy and practice. Bringing together researchers from three continents, the book offers...
by Jonathan Tummons, Kevin Orr, Liz Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
As the number of higher education (HE) courses offered in further education (FE) settings increases, so does the need for teachers and trainee teachers to develop their teaching skills. This text is written for all teachers and trainee teachers in FE. It considers what it means to teach HE in FE and...
by Ourania Filippakou, Ted Tapper
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the...
Educating for Creativity within Higher Education
Integration of Research into Media Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book provides innovative insights into how creativity can be taught within higher education. Preparing students for employment in a dynamic set of global creative industries requires those students to not only be resilient and entrepreneurial, but also to be locally focused while being globally...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
As more classes move to online instruction, there is a need for research that shows the effectiveness of synchronous learning. Educators must guide students on how to use these new learning tools and become aware of the research trends and opportunities within these developing online and hybrid courses....