Higher Education category: 3664 books
Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment
The Global Relevance of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
At a time of impending demographic shifts, faculty and administrators in higher education around the world are becoming aware of the need to address the systemic practices and barriers that contribute to inequitable educational outcomes of racially and ethnically diverse students.
Focusing...
Cultures and Change in Higher Education
Theories and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Describes approaches to understanding cultures in higher education, paying particular attention to cultures and cultural construction at departmental level. Implications of cultural characteristics for issues around change initiatives, including the enhancement of teaching, learning and assessment are a key focus of this book.
Innovative Strategies in Higher Education for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country’s skills development strategies. These...
Envisioning Public Scholarship for Our Time
Models for Higher Education Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This book proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of the engaged scholar.
The editors’ premise is that the work of public scholarship should be driven by a commitment to supporting a diverse democracy...
Innovative Strategies in Higher Education for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country’s skills development strategies. These...
The Faculty Factor
Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession...
Disruptive Technology Enhanced Learning
The Use and Misuse of Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book is about how technologies are used in practice to support learning and teaching in higher education. Despite digitization and e-learning becoming ever-increasingly popular in university teaching settings, this book convincingly argues instead in favour of simple and convenient technologies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The comprehensive, phased approach presents four sets of considerations in course redevelopment: design, interaction, media, and evaluation. Each consideration is presented in a separate chapter, which explores the extant literature and applies the latest research and understandings to design decisions....
Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships
Concepts, Models and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The early boom of Web-based education in the 1990s, both in the United States and abroad (e.g., in Australia and the UK), saw a flurry of publications on the subject of university and industry partnerships, with a focus on ways in which online learning might lead to new models of collaboration and engagement...
Digital Academe
New Media in Higher Education and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This book responds to an ever-increasing call from educators, policy makers, journalists, parents and the public at large for analysis that cuts through the hype surrounding the information revolution to address key issues associated with new media in higher education and learning. This collection...
The Mindfulness-Informed Educator
Building Acceptance and Psychological Flexibility in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Mindfulness-Informed Educator moves a growing body of evidence related to the efficacy of mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches to the context of higher education, suggesting ways to foster psychological flexibility within and outside of the classroom. In the book, professionals across...
The Alienated Academic
The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves...
When Power Corrupts
Academic Governing Boards in the Shadow of the Adelphi Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"It is often said that the American academic, protected by tenure, is free to do pretty much as he or she pleases. Lewis argues that this freedom is largely an illusion. Faculty actions are greatly limited by governing boards and the academic administrators they appoint, who control institutional...
Developing Intercultural Practice
Academic Development in a Multicultural and Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Intercultural higher education has the potential to enable diverse students in diverse contexts to lead lives they have reason to value in a multicultural and globalizing world.
The internationalization of higher education has become a significant site of change, driven by, and contributing...