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Critical Conversations about Religion
Promises and Pitfalls of a Social Justice Approach to Interfaith Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Interfaith initiatives are increasingly prevalent on college and university campuses around the country. In large part, this trend responds both to ongoing religious violence throughout the world and to increasing religious tension in the United States. As such, these interfaith initiatives often...
Technology and Assessment
The Tale of Two Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Together, the words technology and assessment have different meaning for different people. Those who work with educational or instructional technology take these words to mean assessing the impacts of technology on teaching and learning. Test developers and psychometricians, however, consider ways...
Case Writing For Executive Education
A Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Time and again, the authors have observed how a great program faculty creates unique learning experiences to everybody’s satisfaction. They have experienced the pleasure that all involved feel when great learning has taken place, when the program participants leave the sessions with an enhanced skill...
Attitude Measurements in Science Education
Classic and Contemporary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The research into how students’ attitudes affect learning of science related subjects have been one of the core areas of interest by science educators. The development in science education records various attempts in measuring attitudes and determining the correlations between behaviour, achievements,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This volume provides uptodate reviews of the research on a number of social and ethical issues of increasing concern confronting today's managers and organizations. The authors, who are recognized international experts on the topics they treat, provide new theories and innovative perspectives on these...
Instructional Design
Systems Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
At the time of this writing the authors of Instructional Design: System Strategies have a combined experience of more than 75 years in the ?eld of instructional technology in its various guises including Educational Media, Instructional Media, Educational Media and Technology, Instructional Media...
by Mario Martinez, Mimi Wolverton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The purpose of this book is to offer higher education leaders, scholars, consultants, and observers a full range of strategy tools that can be applied to the higher education industry. This is accomplished by a) introducing new concepts and tools to give a comprehensive view of strategy making in higher...
Financing National Defense
Policy and Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A myth from the colonial period was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during the Revolutionary...
Portraying Lives
Headmistresses and Women Professors 1880s1940s
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and experiences across many professional fields. Engaged in the public activity of teaching in a range of educational...
The Legacy of June Pallot
Public Sector Financial Management Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together a selection of June Pallot's most significant work. Written from a country (New Zealand) that led the world in many aspects of its financial management reforms, this work provides thoughtful comment on matters that remain of crucial importance today, especially the constitutional...
More Women on Boards
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More Women on Boards: An International Perspective is the seventh volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series. The purpose of this volume is to explore the complexity of issues related to increasing the number of women on boards of directors around the world: how...
The Duality of Women Scholars of Color
Transforming and Being Transformed in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The seven chapters address longstanding concerns from firsthand perspectives regarding women of color faculty in the academy, the marginalization of women of color scholars in the academy and the benefits of mentoring support. Discussion of such are threaded throughout this book. Mentoring has been...
Higher Education Finance Research
Policy, Politics, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
There is a void in the literature on how to conduct research in the finance and economics of higher education. Students, professors, and practitioners have no concise document that examines the field, provides history, definitions of terms, sources of data, and research methods. Higher Education Finance...