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Assessment in Game-Based Learning
Foundations, Innovations, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction. This, in turn, necessitates alternative ways to assess the kinds of learning that is taking place in the virtual worlds or informal settings. accordingly, aligning...
Digital Youth
The Role of Media in Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Equipped with familiarity...
Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved.
Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth in conflict...
The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving
Honoring the Work of John C. Belland
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1991, Denis Hlynka and John Belland released Paradigms Regained, a well received reader for graduate students in the field of educational technology. The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving updates some of those ideas initially proposed in Paradigms Regained, and extends the conversation...
by J.L. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since 1950 geologists have learned more about the origin and lithification of carbonate sediments than in all the previous years of the history of science. This is true in all the diverse fields of carbonate geology: the study of Recent environments, marine zoology and botany, organic geochemistry,...
Alien Seas
Oceans in Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the clouds of Venus to features on the Moon's surface given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms." With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft...
Handbook of Functional Equations
Functional Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
As Richard Bellman has so elegantly stated at the Second International Conference on General Inequalities (Oberwolfach, 1978), “There are three reasons for the study of inequalities: practical, theoretical, and aesthetic.” On the aesthetic aspects, he said, “As has been pointed out, beauty is...
Primate Locomotion
Linking Field and Laboratory Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Primate locomotion has typically been studied from two points of view. Laboratory-based researchers have focused on aspects like biomechanics and energetics, whereas field-based researchers have focused on (locomotor) behaviour and ecology. Unfortunately, to date, there is relatively little scientific...
Antibiotic Policies
Controlling Hospital Acquired Infection
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
The first book was on "Theory and Practice" of antibiotic stewardship in its broadest sense -the how to do it and the do's and don’ts. The second, on "Controlling resistance" was very much on the relationships between use and resistance and beginning to home in on the hospital...
Incoming Asteroid!
What Could We Do About It?
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
‘Incoming Asteroid!’ is based on a project within ASTRA (the Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics) to provide scientific answers to the question – what would we do if we knew there was going to be an asteroid impact in ten years’ time or less?
Clearly there are many things...
The Governance Structures of Chinese Firms
Innovation, Competitiveness, and Growth in a Dual Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
China’s extraordinary economic growth is inspiring research from a wide spectrum of fields to explain the phenomenon: What are the primary drivers of China’s economic growth? Can it be sustained? Can the Chinese business model be emulated by other countries? What long-term effects will China’s...
by C. R. Kitchin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
“Telescopes and Techniques” has proved itself in its first edition, having become probably one of the most widely used astronomy texts, both for numerate amateur astronomers and for astronomy and astrophysics undergraduates. The first and second editions of the book were widely used as set texts...
by Martin Mobberley
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
For many astronomers, the holy grail of observation is to discover a comet, not least because comets always bear the name of their discoverer! Hunting and Imaging Comets was written for comet hunters and digital imagers who want to discover, rediscover, monitor, and make pictures of comets using astronomical...
Make Time for the Stars
Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Many amateur astronomers are short of time. A full-time career usually takes up most waking hours, and often there simply isn’t time for leisurely observing. Fortunately, modern technologies such as computer-controlled telescopes, GPS, north-seeking and level detection, have made telescope set-up...