Education category: 70663 books
Higher Education at Risk
Strategies to Improve Outcomes, Reduce Tuition, and Stay Competitive in a Disruptive Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Sandra Featherman believes that colleges are in denial about the severity of the threats to the current model of higher education.Based on her own experience as a president, as a trustee, and as a board member who has worked in private and public universities – and on interviews with the presidents...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Higher education policy is the key to lifelong learning and this is particularly important as the ageing population is increasing in many countries. It is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy and it also brings social cohesion and well-being....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt to forge a dialogue among practitioners...
Visionary Leadership
A Proven Pathway to Visionary Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a bachelors degree still be viableor even valuable? How will we assess learning? Will it be competency based? Determined by the sum experience of individual achievement? Or measured by student peers? How will learning be delivered? In the classroom?...
Universities in the Knowledge Economy
Higher education organisation and global change
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional development...
The Undergraduate Experience
Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A clear, practical framework for getting higher education back on track
The Undergraduate Experience is a guide for significantly improving student learning and institutional performance in the rapidly changing world of higher education. Written by recognized experts in undergraduate education,...
Education and the Culture of Consumption
Personalisation and the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However,...
Planning and Assessment in Higher Education
Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In this era of increasing pressure on higher education institutions for accountability, Planning and Assessment in Higher Education is an essential resource for college and university leaders and staff charged with the task of providing evidence of institutional effectiveness. Michael F. Middaugh,...
The States and Public Higher Education Policy
Affordability, Access, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.
As students and their...
by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.
The authors identify and address basic issues and trends that...
Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips
The Fate of Public Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
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"We shape our tools and then they shape us." With these words, Kenneth Boulding captured one of the great truths of the modern world. In Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips, Gene V Glass analyzes how a few key technological inventions changed...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This volume is the continuation of a two-part series that focuses on salient topics and issues affecting Black males as they engage in adult education and learning. Considering the historical and current effects on the way these men participate in adult education, this volume broadens the conversations...
What Counts in Teaching Mathematics
Adding Value to Self and Content
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In this book, internationally recognised scholars and practitioners synthesise current practice and research developments in the area of mathematics teacher education and mathematics education. The book’s two sections examine the role and significance of collaborations and critical friends in the...