Education - Higher

The use of technology in higher education has grown significantly in India since the Covid-19 pandemic. This volume examines the intersection of technology and higher education, tracing the evolving landscape of technology adoption in higher education in India.Author: Pradeep Kumar MisraISBN-10: 1041030827ISBN-13: 9781041030829Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness practices that increase the capacity to transform mind...

Higher Education in the ASEAN Region: Shaping the Future presents views on the topic from various regional writers. It is built on the idea of progress in higher education, emphasising the ongoing evolution and transformation of the sector.Framed by the dynamic settings of both...

The 150th Anniversary of the founding of Alexandra College, Dublin's leading independent school for girls, falls this autumn, when this commemorative volume will be published. The work takes the form of detailed biographical entries taken from the nine-volume Dictionary of National Biography, selected and...

Applying for nationally competitive scholarships can be a daunting process for students. Thousands apply each year for scholarships with familiar names like the Rhodes, Marshall, Gates Cambridge, Schwarzman, Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater, Udall, and Madison, or for one of many STEM opportunities like National Science...

Chemical Plaque Control is a rapidly growing feild and is significant for periodontal patients and practise. This book gives a complete insight about the various chemical plaque control agents available currently. A large numbe of chemicals including enzyme preparations, antibiotics, antiseptics ans surface active...

Laboratories used for scientific research take many forms because of the differing requirements of specialists in the various fields of science and engineering. A physics laboratory might contain a particle accelerator or vacuum chamber, while a metallurgy laboratory could have apparatus for casting or...

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with elements and compounds composed of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other substances.[1][2] In the scope of its subject, chemistry occupies an intermediate position between...

This book is very useful for all the student who wants to know more about chemistry. In this book the concept is in very easy way any kind of student can understand it . This book can be used to score good marks in...

Curriculum materials are among the most pervasive and powerful influences on school mathematics. In many mathematics classes, student assignments, the questions the teacher asks, the ways students are grouped, the forms of assessment, and much more originate in curriculum materials. At the same time,...

The history and future of the unique partnership between the City of Columbia and the University of South CarolinaState universities are more than just places of higher learning, more indeed than just campuses or buildings, and more than just students scurrying from class to...

This book provides an essential resource for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivational standards-based curriculum for diverse learners. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1. Planning, Developing, and Evaluating eMuseums guides the reader through...

The absence of medical licensing laws in most states during the years following the American Civil War made it possible for unscrupulous individuals to exploit the weak over- sight and unregulated state issuance of school charters. Diploma Mill traces the rise and spectacular fall...

The Mechanical Feature: 100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University by C. James Haug When Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Mississippi State University, was founded in 1878, it was lacking what President Stephen D. Lee called "the mechanical feature." Devoted entirely to...

For better or for worse, the goal of securing tenure-track assistant professorships frames the graduate school experience for most students. Yet what the graduate experience boasts in scholarly training it lacks in institutional training--that is, in guiding future faculty members to see and experience...

This volume deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his careful and thorough analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to...

This volume deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his careful and thorough analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to...

Our goal with this book, Research on Enhancing the Interactivity of Online Learning, is to present a juried, scholarly, and accessible review of research, theory, and/or policy on specific issues of interactive online learning for K-16 educators, administrators, and students of online learning. Online...

Explores the university's altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.This book's purpose is clearly realized. In a balanced presentation, the pressures...

Improving Faculty Governance begins with a critical examination of the contemporary faculty member and the challenges of protecting academic democracy in the context of the increasingly corporate university. The ideas of trust and respect are examined between faculty and administrators, along with the positive...

Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politicsAuthor: Philip G. AltbachISBN-10: 1560009446ISBN-13: 9781560009443Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1997Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

The dissertation processes across various disciplines are considered complicated, tedious, and confusing. The professional community of scholars have contributed monumental works on methodology for specific disciplines; however, none have comprehensively created a framework which addresses these issues. Creating a Framework for Dissertation Preparation: Emerging...

This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science...

The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This informal volume concentrates on the last half century. It examines the development of the Faculty and of its undergraduate and alumni organizations; the changing undergraduate scene...

In June 1967, the Earth Science Division of the Royal Society of Canada held a symposium to assess the country's activities and accomplishments in the earth sciences and to provide some guidelines and predictions for the future. The papers given at the symposium and...

Deluged with messages that range from "It's Ivy League or bust" to "It doesn't matter where you go," college applicants and their families often find themselves lost, adrift in a sea of information overload. Finally--a worthy life preserver has arrived. The Enlightened College Applicant...

Assesses the challenges plaguing our higher education system through selections of Ernest L. Boyer's writingsHaving served as chancellor of the State University of New York, the United States commissioner of education, and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ernest L....

An essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus.Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers...

How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering?For much of America's history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were...

This book is a case study of a partnership between a college of education and a large urban school system in a joint project to build and sustain a collaboration for an elementary school to be built on the university campus. It provides insights...

This book examines the way in which professors must confront the social implications of racial neoliberalism. Author: Michelle D. Byng,Vaso Thomas,Donna-Marie PetersISBN-10: 103258078XISBN-13: 9781032580784Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

This book details the skills needed to face the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world of Industry 4.0. It covers the professional skills, cognitive learning, critical thinking skills among modern learners, motivation and student engagement.Author: P. KalirajISBN-10: 1032531975ISBN-13: 9781032531977Publisher: Auerbach PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2024Pages:...

The Directory of Geoscience Departments 54th Edition is the most comprehensive directory and source of information about geosciences departments and researchers available. It is an invaluable resource for individuals working in the geosciences or must identify or work with specialists on the issues of...

Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris, colleagues at Indiana University and prominent scholars in literary studies and composition respectively, aim here to bridge the perceived division between the two disciplines. In a spirit of curricular collaboration, Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction presents an...

Celebrates fifty years of the autonomous University of New England, whileacknowledging that its history reaches further back through the New England University College, founded in 1938, and, via an amalgamation with the Armidale College of Advanced Education, to 1928, when the Armidale Teachers' College...

"These essays seek to understand how institutions set boundaries between professionals and ordinary people, how ideologies organize expert and lay knowledge into cognitive and cultural hierarchies, and what the implications might be for teachers, theorists, and program administrators who believe that writing instruction should...

Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig? In this book, the author combines a statistical approach with...

As an introduction to the subject, it is ideal for A-level students as well as chemistry undergraduates and will prove to be a very useful reference tool for teachers and lecturersAuthor: David WhittakerISBN-10: 0854046011ISBN-13: 9780854046010Publisher: Royal Society of ChemistryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2000Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize:...

To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and...

This book is a case study of a partnership between a college of education and a large urban school system in a joint project to build and sustain a collaboration for an elementary school to be built on the university campus. It provides insights...

This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution,...

A full-bodied, robust discussion of issues of concern to faculty in schools of education.Schools of education are undergoing dramatic changes in what they are expected to do and what kinds of work faculty should do and how they should be rewarded. This book discusses...

In this thoughtful book, Howard C. Clark considers how such changes to growth and governance have altered the nature of the institution itself. Tracing the development of the university from the end of the Second World War, through the seismic changes in the 1960s...

In recent decades, the Canadian post-secondary education system has evolved to become more inclusive, now welcoming groups historically excluded from its many opportunities. Inviting the reader to explore the consequences of a rapidly changing student population, Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education presents...

Mr. Califano proposes a greater role for the young in matters that affect them. He makes specific proposals about our draft boards, our educational system, our political process. And he asks our students to "remember that it is one thing to fight for freedom...

This pithy yet thorough book provides an evidence-based guide on how to prepare for online teaching, especially for those who are making a swift transition from face-to-face to online instruction.Author: Aaron S. Richmond,Regan A. R. Gurung,Guy BoysenISBN-10: 0367646684ISBN-13: 9780367646684Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2021Pages: 70Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book offers a concise history of 25 legendary women who made significant contributions to engineering and were recognized for their work by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) between 1952 and 1976. In addition, the book provides a backdrop of the cultural and...

This book provides a personal history of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and its remarkable rise, starting from 2003, into the ranks of the top universities in the world as a leading Asian university and the youngest (less than 50 years old) to have achieved...

Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That's where the Why Study series comes in. This series...

This book provides the first in-depth examination of the experiences of a large sampling of faculty members of color in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry schools across the United States. Anchoring her study in grounded theory, Dena Hassouneh draws on extraordinary interviews with one...