Education - Higher

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning,...

"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and Simulation" uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how gaming, simulation, and virtualization are being used to improve teamwork and leadership skills in students, create engaging communities of practice,...

This book is a practical guide on how to transform your ideas from virtual world course ware to virtual world learning experiences. This book argues that setting up learning in 3D virtual worlds requires a transformative approach. The advice given in this book comes...

As interaction in higher education among faculty, staff, students, and others becomes ever more digital, the welter of new online communication technologies have provided many unintentional opportunities for indiscipline and misconduct. As a result of this unfortunate increase is misbehavior, administrators and instructors in...

Learn what you didn't learn in school! The truth is, graduates around the world are clueless about where they want to go next in their lives. How can they pursue their dreams if they don't understand more practical subjects like developing a solid budget?...

Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and cultural norms. Labor trends...

Online and blended learning requires the reconstruction of instructor and learner roles, relations, and practices in many aspects. Assessment becomes an important issue in non-traditional learning environments. Assessment literacy, i.e., understanding assessment and assessment strategies, is critical for both instructors and students in creating...

Co-published with NACADA.Changes on college and university campuses have echoed changes in U.S. popular culture, politics, and religion since the 1970s through unprecedented visibility of LGBTQA persons and issues. In the face of hostile campus cultures, LGBTQA students rely on knowledgeable academic advisors for...

This book centers the experiences of Multiracial people, those individuals claiming heritage and membership in two or more (mono)racial groups and/or identifies with a Multiracial term.Author: Marc P. Johnston-GuerreroISBN-10: 1642670685ISBN-13: 9781642670684Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2021Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Completely produced by students in the Purdue University Honors College, this book contains ten essays by undergraduate students of today about their forebears in the class of 1904. Two Purdue faculty members have provided a contextualizing introduction and reflective epilogue. Not only are the...

The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)--an inter-institutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation--is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving reliably and across contexts the...

High stakes testing, standards, and accountability politics is taking us away from the importance of the affective domain in curriculum development. This critical learning domain is often an unrecognized and infrequently considered topic in the literature. Through this book we extend the current knowledge...

Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these "secrets" direct to students.Her message is that "Any student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start...

This book addresses the critical and looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. Given institutions' legal constraints and planning exigencies, and faculties' varied motivations, what are the options that can...

This book makes an important contribution to and provides a foundation for better contextualizing and understanding sexual violence. This book will expand educators' understanding of sexual violence to inform more effective policies, procedures, practice, and research that reaches beyond preventing sexual violence.Author: Jessica C....

This book discusses recent trends in outcomes assessment, examines how state governments are reshaping the national discussion with higher education, and explains how libraries must respond to these changes. Higher Education Outcomes Assessment for the Twenty-first Century focuses on recent developments in outcomes assessment,...

The Internet has become one of the most important and most used media for communication and learning, as it allows for the creation of interactive and collaborative environments, whose contents and resources can be shared with a limitless number of users. The explosion of...

Immeasurable advances in our culture have led to a more knowledge-based society in recent years. This has impacted individual and organizational learning and how it is delivered and experienced. Technology plays an important role in supporting learning through various disciplines now and in the...

As technology expands and becomes more powerful and pervasive, there is growing discussion of the innovative ways that technology can be used. While it is obviously important to consider the technical aspects of any new technology, there is a critical need for more discussion...

New approaches to teaching are inherently important for any teacher, faculty member, or corporate trainer involved with the application of technology-based resources for instruction and learning. ICTs for Modern Educational and Instructional Advancement: New Approaches to Teaching explores current models and issues involved with...

Although online education is becoming an important long-term strategy for higher learning instructors, blended learning through a balanced mix of traditional face-to-face instructional activities with appropriately designed online learning experiences is expected to become an even more significant growth area in the future. Cases...

Despite the large lecture courses commonly found in colleges, the essence of learning is essentially a one-to-one dialogue between a tutor and learner. As such, the Internet has now made individual learning practical and cost effective to a degree never before possible. Cases on...

This collection investigates, through an autoethnographic lens, the roles and intersections of self, spirituality and academia.Author: Heewon ChangISBN-10: 1598746251ISBN-13: 9781598746259Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2011Pages: 266Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.02d

Scope of the Book: Personal Passionate Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education, the first book in the series, features 14 programs of social justice oriented research on life in schools, families, and communities. This work, done by a diverse group of practitioner researchers,...

The current volume, Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models, contains chapters by all of the speakers who participated in the 2006 CILVR conference, providing not just a snapshot of the event, but more importantly chronicling the state of the art in latent variable mixture...

This book examines the identification choices of a group of biracial college women and explores how these identifications relate to their choices and constructions of different social contexts. It is a qualitative study that draws on recent psychological literature, as well as personal interviews...

This book attempts to offer not just a bird's-eye view of the communities of designers project, but also to help identify broad themes and issues that can inform discussions and policies of technology integration at other institutions.Author: Puny MishraISBN-10: 1593115822ISBN-13: 9781593115821Publisher: Information Age PublishingLanguage:...

This book has been a work in progress. In the spring of 2000 I started this project and began to collect data and conduct interviews. I copied every article I could find in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and its predecessors Outlook...

The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is...

Higher education institutions around the world are increasingly turning to e-learning as a way of dealing with growing and changing student populations. Education for the knowledge society means new skills and knowledge are needed and it means that lifelong learning has become a necessity....

The contributors to this inspiring anthology meet the challenge that everyone faces: that of becoming a whole person in both their personal and professional lives. John C. Haughey, SJ, has gathered twelve professionals in higher education from a variety of disciplines-philosophy, theology, health care,...

Culture plays an overarching role that impacts investment, planning, design, development, delivery, and the learning outcomes of online education. This groundbreaking book remedies a dearth of empirical research on how digital cultures and teaching and learning cultures intersect, and offers grounded theory and practical...

Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition for resources and climate change, and will demand that every academic discipline demonstrate substantial...

This is a book for skeptical faculty, for those who have been tasked to spearhead their institution's call to create a culture of assessment; and, on campuses where assessment has been widely accepted and implemented, for those who now need to ensure this commitment...

This book remedies this gap by gathering a rich collection of personal narratives and empirical research to provide a comprehensive account of the actual lived experiences of graduate students of color and their perception of the campus climate.Author: Mary F. Howard-HamiltonISBN-10: 1579222846ISBN-13: 9781579222840Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Are cultural centers ethnic enclaves of segregation, or safe havens that provide minority students with social support that promotes persistence and retention?Though Black cultural centers boast a 40-year history, there is much misinformation about them and the ethnic counterparts to which they gave rise....

This book analyzes the ideological and legal construction of colorblind legislation that has led to the de facto exclusion of people of color from institutions of higher education.Author: Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher,Denise O'Neil Green,David O. StovallISBN-10: 1579221033ISBN-13: 9781579221034Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h...

This book provides academic administrators and faculty developers with proactive, practical and results-producing approaches that can help transform fragmented faculties into integrated and cohesive teaching and scholarly communities.Author: Leora Baron-NixonISBN-10: 1579220614ISBN-13: 9781579220617Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2007Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.88h x 6.23w x 0.39dReview Citation(s):...

Grants are supposed to enable work, not create more of it. You need a guide, a map, and the right tools for the job. Helping you from your earliest brainstorming to fully funded projects, this essential guide offers countless tips and resources. Citizen groups,...

This collection of speeches and essays, written between 1998 and 2001, addresses major issues relating to higher education and the leadership and administration of its institutions.Author: Stephen Joel TrachtenbergISBN-10: 1573565717ISBN-13: 9781573565714Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.46w x 0.58d

Service-learning in higher education symbiotically combines community service and academic study--that both fields strengthen in the union is one reason for the movement's increasing popularity. This comprehensive guide to service-learning in colleges and universities includes: - A-Z encyclopedia of terms and concepts- Directory of...

Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies and practices endemic to...

Need extra funding for your library or for another educational project? Check this handy guide. Designed for educators and administrators in school and small public libraries, this book is filled with the practical information you need to prepare and execute a successful grant proposal....

This is one of the most important books ever published about the American universityAuthor: Egon Friedell,Robert NisbetISBN-10: 1560009152ISBN-13: 9781560009153Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/1996Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.06w x 0.92d

How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic world in which few publish (95 percent of publications come from 5 percent of...

First Published in 1996. Beginning in 1979, the government of the People's Republic of China, hoping to catch up with Western science and technology, decided for the first time since 1949 to send large numbers of students and scholars to the West to study....

An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A...

Cheating in educational institutions and society not only threatens the overall quality of the education, as well as its dissemination of knowledge, but it also affects the current social fabric. With the ever-evolving realm of the internet, the scope of plagiarism has now expanded...

To maintain the quality of education, integrity and honesty must be upheld by students and teachers in learning environments. The prevention of cheating is a prime factor in this endeavor. The Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education is a pivotal reference...

Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao,...