Higher Education category: 3664 books
From the Desk of the Dean
The History and Future of Arts and Sciences Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
For those who have devoted their lives to teaching, learning, and innovation in the arts and sciences, it likely comes as no surprise that there has been a revaluing and devaluing of the work of students and faculty in the arts and sciences fields. In response Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth A....
by Margaret Zeegers, Deirdre Barron
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Milestone Moments in Getting your PhDin Qualitative Research is a guide for research students completing higher degrees with a focus on the importance of language and terminology of the theoretical and practical requirements of a given research program. The book responds to a lack of preparedness...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Beginning in the 1830s, public and private higher education institutions established to serve African-Americans operated in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Border States, and the states of the old Confederacy. Until recently the vast majority of people of African descent who received post-secondary education...
From the Navy to College
Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From the Navy to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education is an education and career reference guide for Sailors looking to join the Navy, already on active duty, or transitioning into the civilian sector. Serving as a long-term support guide for Sailors seeking further education...
From the Army to College
Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Today’s soldiers are highly motivated to serve, but face numerous challenges, especially considering the sacrifices they have made over the past decade of war. As the service branches face budget cuts and draw downs, soldiers need to be aware of the resources and options available to help make them...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The ever-growing creation of new internet technologies has led to a growing trend and use of scenario-based virtual environments and serious games in education. Along with these new technologies, there is an increasing interest in how students can be effectively assessed when using these virtual environments....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book outlines a range of innovative methods to gather student feedback, and explores the complex relation between student engagement, student satisfaction, and student success. Drawing on results from a set of numerous case-studies carried out at a school of education, the book reports on a range...
by Ana Maria Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. It is divided into eleven chapters and follows an organic exploration of theory and practice. The individual chapters of the textbook...
Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes
Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings. Using eduscapes as its most important concept, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Our increasingly globalized world is driven by shared knowledge, and nowhere is that knowledge more important than in education. Now more than ever, there is a demand for technology that will assist in the spread of knowledge through customized, self-paced, and on-demand learning. The Handbook of Research...
Gaming Innovations in Higher Education
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Gaming technologies have become effective learning tools within education. Gamification has the potential to increase engagement using real-time feedback on learning activities, which allows students to reflect on their completion and retention of a learned activity. Gaming Innovations in Higher Education:...
Cautionary Tales
Strategy Lessons From Struggling Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges – with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even...
An Academic Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university
Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a...
Claiming Home, Shaping Community
Testimonios de los valles
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
To offer testimonio is inherently political, a vehicle that counters the hegemony of the state and illuminates the repression and denial of human rights. Claiming Home, Shaping Community shares testimonios from and about the lives of Mexican-origin people who left the rural, agricultural Imperial...