Education - Higher

Since the beginning of the 20th century, public administration (PA) departments have been established, primarily in the USA and later in other Western countries, and education in the field of public administration has been provided in these departments. As the field of public administration...

American higher education has served to prepare students to be active participants in a democratic society. During a time of great civil upheaval following the tumultuous elections of 2016 and 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and mass demonstrations following the murders of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies, institutions, citizens, and students to rapidly change their behaviors and use virtual technologies to perform their usual working tasks. Though virtual technologies for learning were already present in most universities, the pandemic has forced virtual technologies to lead...

Empowering learners for life requires a fundamental shift in higher education curriculum design. New priorities, pedagogies, technologies, spaces, and assessment strategies are required to enable learners to take ownership of their learning. "Student-centeredness" concepts are still prescriptive in nature as most decisions on curriculum,...

As higher education institutions adapt to an increasingly digital world, it is imperative that they adopt technological techniques that allow them to establish a digital presence. Academic e-branding involves managing a university's brand and image to promote and build the reputation of the institution,...

Over the last decade, many local students have preferred to study overseas. This has caused governments to announce the creation of programs and developments in the higher education sector to upgrade South-East Asia to a leading education hub. Moreover, many governments declared that they...

Competitive strategies and higher education-industry collaboration policies are playing a vital role in fostering the reputation and international rankings of higher education institutions. The positive impact of these policies may best be observed in the economic and social outputs of many countries such as...

Community-engaged scholarship is an equitable and democratic approach to scholarship that seeks to identify and solve community-based problems. Community-engaged scholars aim to serve the public good by developing and sustaining community-campus partnerships built on trust, reciprocity, and mutual benefit. As universities orient themselves towards...

Today, globalization, advances in technology, greater access to information, and communication via social networks generate an explosion of knowledge and cause the working world to experience rapid change based on knowledge and continuous learning. The challenge for universities is to have a curriculum that...

Previously, key levers of higher education have seemed to be the learning organization, work-integrated learning for life-long learning, and learner-centered pedagogy. However, funding evolution and the integration of digital tools are changing professional styles and learning behaviors. Nonetheless, the sustainability of higher education requires...

Modern education has increased its reach through ICT tools and techniques. To manage educational data with the help of modern artificial intelligence, data and web mining techniques on dedicated cloud or grid platforms for educational institutes can be used. By utilizing data science techniques...

The post-truth world threatens our collective commitment to rationality but must not become the norm. Synthesis of the scholarship on anti-intellectualism and personal attributes informs educational practices to promote development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth...

Conversations, debates, and policies toward higher education remain in an uncritical mode of normality on issues such as inclusion, exclusion, and equity. In addition, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has starkly highlighted the fragility of the higher education system and has raised salient...

This volume calls for a reevaluation of internationalization, focused on faculty and curriculum design of interdisciplinary perspectives on sustainability education. The contributing authors reflect on the transformative intercultural experiences that drove their internationalized course redesigns. The chapters provide a blueprint for interdisciplinary course designs--many...

This book describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world. Author: Cristina GonzálezISBN-10: 1666900095ISBN-13: 9781666900095Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2024Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

High school was like a penance imposed for some unknown sin. Everything I ever learned that was important was learned outside of school. So I never thought to associate schools with learning. (Amy, UMass Boston student) Today's diverse and financially burdened students entera higher...

This text explores best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education for staff from all academic disciplines.Author: Elizabeth Cleaver, Maxine Lintern, Mike McLindenISBN-10: 1526409607ISBN-13: 9781526409607Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2018Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.80d

The knowledge society arises from the combination of four interdependent elements: the production of knowledge through research, its transmission through education, its dissemination through information and communication technologies, and its exploitation through innovation. For this reason, higher education institutions (HEIs) are the main component...

Online learning has been touted as one way of reducing the cost of higher education while simultaneously addressing the increasing demand for educational opportunity and providing access to hitherto "left out" populations. Many universities are defying tradition by offering completely online degrees for global...

Higher education today faces several challenges including soaring cost, rising student debt, declining state support, and a staggering dropout rate. Digital technology enables numerous paths to innovation and promising solutions to these crises in higher education. However, few efforts have been made to look...

Generation Z views participatory technological interfaces as an integral part of their lives. Every experience in which they engage, particularly schooling, is viewed and experienced through that highly technological lens. At no other time in higher education has the nature of teaching and learning...

As more classes move to online instruction, there is a need for research that shows the effectiveness of synchronous learning. Educators must guide students on how to use these new learning tools and become aware of the research trends and opportunities within these developing...

Institutions of higher education across the world are expected to contribute to the resolution of economic, social, and environmental problems and to respond to them. However, in order to meet these expectations, universities need to have a strong sense of university governance to provide...

This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it highlights the profound shift from traditional teacher-centered methods to learner-centered methods. This publication provides the latest, trending research on how to equip teachers for this new educational focus by providing international perspectives...

In an increasingly complex, competitive, and global world, organizations require highly skilled professionals who have the capacity to proactively answer challenges. Thus, educational institutions must update the curricula of their courses to better contribute to the training and development of professionals in order to...

Information communication technologies (ICT) have long been important in supporting doctoral study. Though ICTs have been integrated into educational practices at all levels, there is little understanding of how effective these technologies are in supporting resource development for students and researchers in academic institutions....

The global digital economy continues to demand the need for educated and highly trained professionals, requiring higher learning institutions to provide accessible technology-driven experience to prepare future leaders effectively. However, there are challenges involved in creating a robust curriculum and recruiting top-notch faculty all...

Global awareness and competency has become an essential part of higher education and professional development. Expanding beyond the traditional ideas of learning and education, it is important to provide research that will help students prepare for the global future. The Handbook of Research on...

E-assessments of students profoundly influence their motivation and play a key role in the educational process. Adapting assessment techniques to current technological advancements allows for effective pedagogical practices, learning processes, and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on E-Assessment in Higher Education provides emerging...

In the twenty-first century, learning and the definition of education is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage learners like never before. In the midst of this technological revolution, it is crucial for educators and...

This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it provides the timeliest research on increasing cultural diversity and multiculturalism within institutions of higher learning. Featuring comprehensive coverage on classroom diversity, this publication is an innovative reference source for educators seeking to...

Today, millions of students cross geographic, cultural, and educational borders for their higher education. Trends of international student mobility are significant to universities, educators, business leaders, and governments to increase revenue and campus diversity in the global marketplace. As such, it is vital to...

Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including institutions of higher education. Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unique ways in which the...

Keeping students engaged and receptive to learning can, at times, be a challenge. However, by implementing new pedagogical methods and tools, instructors can strengthen the drive to learn among their students. Fostering Effective Student Communication in Online Graduate Courses is a pivotal reference source...

Education is the foundation to almost all successful lives, and it is important that a high level of schooling be available on a global scale. Studying the trends in accessibility in education will allow educators to improve their own teaching techniques, as well as...

Although the advancement of educational technologies is often discussed in a teaching capacity, the administration aspect of this research area is often overlooked. Studying the impact technology has on education administration not only allows us to become familiar with the most current trends and...

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black.In daring to shift from...

This book is about what it's like to be a professor in the humanities at non-elite universities and colleges. In a series of autobiographical snapshots from 19 full-time professors from around the United States (and two foreign institutions), the present work explores the changes...

Meaningful interaction between teachers and students is crucial to any educational environment, and particularly so in intercultural settings. When educators take steps to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into their classrooms, student learning is enriched and improved. The Handbook of Research on Effective Communication in...

To some in academia, Massive Open Online Courses are a paradigm shift in online education, while others perceive them as a threat to traditional styles of pedagogy. In this regard, the time-honored model of the university lecture is seen as being a potential casualty...

Randy Stoecker has been "practicing" forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, "Practice does not make perfect." In his highly personal critique, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, the author worries...

Studio Teaching in Higher Education provides narrative examples of studio education written by instructors who have engaged in it, both within and outside the instructional design field.Author: Elizabeth BolingISBN-10: 1138902411ISBN-13: 9781138902411Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2016Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken root in elite American colleges'specifically, Harvard, Yale, and PrincetonAuthor: Marcia SynnottISBN-10: 1138536083ISBN-13: 9781138536081Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2017Pages: 350Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves. Over the centuries they earned the respect of society by attempting to remain faithful to what he terms "the academic dogma," the...

"This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Contemporary ScienceThe tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be...

The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as wellAuthor: David RiesmanISBN-10: 1138534048ISBN-13: 9781138534049Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2017Pages: 610Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

The modern world derives part of its meaning and definition from the foreign policy formulations of Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman.Author: Theodore CaplowISBN-10: 1138534021ISBN-13: 9781138534025Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2018Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic professionAuthor: Logan WilsonISBN-10: 1138534013ISBN-13: 9781138534018Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employeesAuthor: Roger L. GeigerISBN-10: 1138532525ISBN-13: 9781138532526Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2017Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Nearly 85 years ago, Wesley Clair Mitchell, the acknowledged leader of American economists during the first half of this century, wrote: "Important as the art of spending is, we have developed less skill in its practice than in the practice of making money. Common...