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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421447797Author Learning Specialist Dave CormierFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University...

The research is clear: online learning works best when faculty build regular, positive, and interactive relationships with students. A strategy that helps forge such a relationship is the use of videos. Student satisfaction and course engagement levels...

Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them `entrepreneurial', `efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue...

Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised-the place of religion and moral values in the university...

If you teach in higher or professional education, 53 interesting ways of helping your students to study is designed to help you. This book provides practical suggestions, each tried and tested, for helping students to improve their learning. The book is...

Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. "Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904) Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's...

This is a book for anyone who has ever considered engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning - known familiarly as SoTL - and needs a better understanding of what it is, and how to engage in it. The authors describe how to create a SoTL...

As the result of recent changes in the research landscape, researchers are now commonly required to do more than just research. For example, they are often expected to take responsibility for post-research activities, including engagement with...

The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly tested the resilience of academics in higher education. Many universities were severely affected by reduced student enrolment, with widespread job losses reported across universities. For many academics, the impact of...

A view of America's colleges and universities and how they are run, the challenges they face and the issues that affect their "owners" - students, faculty, alumni, trustees and others. Among the issues covered are tenure, the admission process in elite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127190Author Robert BoyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Gamification in Higher Education is a user-friendly text for anyone curious about gamification and how it increases student engagement.This book presents actual examples from gamified college courses, furnishing strategies and detailed plans for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537933Author Mario BiagioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Open inquiry and engagement with a diverse range of views are long-cherished and central tenets of higher education and are pivotal to innovation and knowledge creation. Yet, free inquiry on American campuses is hampered by a climate that constrains...

Dr RB McDowell is a legend. To graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, he is a symbol of their years at university, the enduring source of endless amusing anecdotes and memories. Now, for the first time, reminiscences by graduates and friends, recording...

Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519716385Author Dan StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The goal of teaching online is fundamentally the same as teaching face-to-face: facilitating the learning of all students to the greatest extent possible. This book differs from other books on online teaching in that, in the process of offering guidance...

Only a century ago, almost all state universities held compulsory chapel services, and some required Sunday church attendance as well. In fact, state-sponsored chapel services were commonplace until the World War II era, and as late as the 1950s, it was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545266Author Abigail J. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today's students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang,...

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological...

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techniques...

This is the latest volume in the Learning in Higher Education series. Active Learning has at least two major benefits: 1) it engages students in their learning, and 2) it enhances their deeper learning outcomes. In this book, authors from universities in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312343750Author Staff of the Harvard CrimsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287664Author Dilly FungFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus-from presidents to...

Put Teaching Naked to work in your classroom with clear examples and step-by-step guidance Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson...

The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers...

It takes courage to engage in the kind of deep, transformational learning that so many people need in their lives, and this book is designed to help find and nurture that courage in learners, including those that are engaged in facilitating the...

This is a comprehensive guide to the requirements for achieving Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status. This textbook is a complete guide to achieving QTLS. Key themes of teaching and learning are explored in the context of the lifelong...

Can the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities-the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our...

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless...

What is it like to undergo the process of doing a doctorate? This book provides an insight into life as a research student; the elation, the guilt, the isolation, the self-doubt, the loneliness. It provides guidance on the practical issues - such as...

The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are...

This pathbreaking book for educators shows that focusing on relationships, resilience, and reflection can better prepare graduates for the future.Learning something new-particularly something that might change your mind-is much more difficult than most...

When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research...

British higher education is internationally perceived as being in crisis. In this book A. H. Halsey examines how the present-day situation developed. Beginning with the 1963 Robbins Report, he argues that, despite the subsequent expansion of higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873576816Author Catherine MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint OcsldPublisher OcsldWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm