Higher Education category: 3664 books
Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition rises, tensions with American foreign policy both complicate and motivate new activity, and a variety of innovations are taking shape. Citing best practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education,...
by Andrew M. Greeley
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Almost all of America's private colleges and universities started out as denominational schools, but connections with sponsoring churches gradually attenuated over the last century. Only fundamentalist Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church still maintain colleges and universities...
Mobile Learning in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Harnessing Trends and Challenging Orthodoxies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
If mobile technologies are to be effectively used in education, how do we best implement sustainable mobile solutions for teaching and learning? The aim of this handbook is to support educators and policy makers who are investing in innovations in digital education to develop effective and sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Even in higher education, the traditional perception of learning is a face to face environment; while distance education is typically thought of as its alternative. However, the continuous expansion of technology has altered this point of view as a more flexible option of education, not an alternative....
CLIL in Higher Education
Towards a Multilingual Language Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This book offers a unique view of multilingualism in higher education from a global perspective. It presents a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The volume discusses various approaches to multilingual education...
Styles of Practice in Higher Education
Exploring approaches to teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book highlights important discussions occurring within the styles field that have direct relevance for the development of effective twenty-first century learning environments. Styles research in this context is used as an umbrella term to encompass cognitive styles, learning styles, and approaches...
The Adjunct Underclass
How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades,...
by Jonathan R. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Education has been disrupted dramatically by culture, technology and economics. The only certainty about the universities of the future is that they will not thrive if left unchanged. Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, and its former provost, is one of the country's...
What Universities Can Be
A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of higher...
Preparing Your Campus for Veterans' Success
An Integrated Approach to Facilitating The Transition and Persistence of Our Military Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“This book is a must read for all educators, counselors, higher education administrators, and community leaders. It is a playbook for solutions that will enable our veterans to achieve their capacity for greatness and empower them towards graduation. It teaches us the ways that education leaders can...
Expanding College Access for Urban Youth
What Schools and Colleges Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book demonstrates why there needs to be a more thoughtful and collaborative effort on the part of K–12 schools, as well as institutions of higher education, to provide better college access to students from low-income communities. Building on a 10-year case study of a successful...
The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen’s classic, thoroughly edited, annotated,...