Higher Education category: 3664 books
Restoring the Promise
Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
American higher education is increasingly in trouble. Universities are facing an uncertain and unsettling future with free speech suppression, out-of-control Federal student aid programs, soaring administrative costs, and intercollegiate athletics mired in corruption. Restoring the Promise explores...
The Future of Affirmative Action
New Paths to Higher Education Diversity after Fisher v. University of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
As the United States experiences dramatic demographic change—and as our society’s income inequality continues to rise—promoting racial, ethnic, and economic inclusion at selective colleges has become more important than ever. At the same time, however, many Americans—including several members...
Assessing for Learning
Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
"Peggy Maki's text as a whole represents a comprehensive and realist approach to assessment and constructs a notion of assessment that is an uncommon blend of the pragmatic and sustainable, meaningful and valuable, theoretical and practical. Maki has artistically drawn together esoteric, philosophical...
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Multimedia Technologies
Video Annotation, Multimedia Applications, Videoconferencing and Transmedia Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Multimedia Technologies: Video Annotation, Multimedia Applications, Videoconferencing and Transmedia Storytelling examines new research on how videoconferencing, video annotation, video mapping, and related technologies are being used in higher education...
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in E-Learning Environments
Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in e-Learning Environments: Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies examines new research on how online and blended learning technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an era of increasing technological convergence...
Education for Adults
Volume 1 Adult Learning and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The nature of adult education at individual, group and community levels is the concern of this book. Definitions and patterns of adult learning are critically assessed in both this country and abroad, and the processes involved considered in detail. Both case studies and thematic articles have been...
Protections of Tenure and Academic Freedom in the United States
Evolution and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This volume examines the historical origins of tenure in higher education. The concept of academic freedom and tenure has been a point of discussion between university faculty and administration since the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) established these two concepts in their...
International Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education
Insider Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This unique book is an important source of information for all of those who educate future teachers and those who participate in teacher education as students, researchers, educators and policymakers. The volume also contributes to the international development of higher quality and research-led...
Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Towards a Socially Just Pedagogy in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Universities face the prospect of becoming redundant unless the way teaching and learning takes place changes. This book explores the idea of transformation and pedagogy, In particular, it will highlight how universities are transformed through a set of pedagogical interventions and stances that...
Sustainable Learning in Higher Education
Developing Competencies for the Global Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today’s workforce. This book looks at the university as a dynamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Intercollegiate athletics continue to bedevil American higher education. At once tied closely with their institutions, athletic programs often operate outside the traditional university governance structure while contributing significantly to a school’s culture, identity, and financial outlook....
The Internationalization of the Academy
Changes, Realities and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This volume provides a nuanced empirical assessment of the extent to which the academic profession is internationalized at the beginning of the 21st century. It indicates which are the most internationalized academic activities, and focuses on specific topics such as physical mobility for study or...
College StudentAthletes
Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This volume is a critical and objective study of the contemporary college student athlete. Framed around the process of recruitment, transition, and support of student athletes in higher education, the volume is a response to societal pressures to reform college athletics. Driven by publicity and...
Breaking Point
The College Affordability Crisis and Our Next Financial Bubble
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In recent decades, the crisis of college affordability has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our era. Since 1978, college tuition and fees have soared by 1,120 percent, growing at three times the rate of housing prices and four times the rate of the increase in the hourly wage. The inevitable...