University: 748 books
by Phillips, Robin (Lecturer, Computing Centre
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
New technology is being used more and more in education and providers have to be aware of what is on offer and how it can be used. This practical handbook demonstrates how interactive multimedia can be developed for educational application.
by Ruth Ravid, professor emerita, National Louis University
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Practical Statistics for Educators, Fifth Edition, is a clear and easy-to-follow text written specifically for education students in introductory statistics courses and in action research courses. It is also a valuable resource and guidebook for educational practitioners who wish to study their own...
Advances in Well-Being
Toward a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Media and research tend to focus on social problems in today's world - from terrorism and natural disasters to environmental degradation, conflict and economic decline. Yet many countries are also placing the promotion of well-being central at the heart of their social agenda. So what can we say about...
Beyond Hierarchy
Gender And Sexuality In The Social Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Since the early 1980s there has been a surge of interest in both issues of gender and sexuality in work and organizational life, and in the founding and running of co-operatives and collectives. Since hierarchy rests on divisions which are in part gendered and sexualized, and co-operatives for the...
Commonsense Questions about Instruction
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology?...
Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
by Daryl Fischer, Laura B. Roberts, principal
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Templates for Trustees is a four-part series designed by the Museum Trustee Association to focus attention on key processes and tasks of governance. The books and web-based customizable templates include tools that collect information and then guide the board in using that information to organize...
How Nonprofits Work
Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
How Nonprofits Work looks at nonprofit organizations through a sociological lens, identifying characteristics that make some nonprofits successful and characteristics that cause challenges, focusing on nonprofts in the health services sector. The book opens with helpful background information about...
Grant Seeking in Higher Education
Strategies and Tools for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Written for anyone in higher education who is responsible for submitting and running a grant-funded project, Grant Seeking in Higher Education offers a hands-on resource for developing and managing the grant process from start to finish.
Step by step, the authors will help you to identify and...
Dearing and Beyond
14-19 Qualifications, Frameworks and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Focuses on the 14-19 curriculum and qualification debates around the Dearing Review. It identifies the main parameters of this area of policy development for the future and argues strongly for a staged process to reform which ultimately leads to a unified 14-19 qualifications system.
Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary School
The What, Why and How of Early MFL Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An overview of the place of modern languages in the primary school in the 21st century. It is written for anyone with an active role in teaching languages in schools today, either at primary or secondary levels. It discusses the practical issues involved in teaching MFL to primary students.
by Daniel, John (Vice Chancellor, Open University)
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.
Understanding Changes In Time
The Development Of Diachronic Thinking In 7-12 Year Old Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This text provides an analysis of how children come to be able to understand the dynamic nature of causality - how processes take place through time. The author studies the capabilities and limitations of 7-12 year old children in order to assess their conception of evolutionary processes. His study...
Initiating Ethnographic Research
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
*Initiating Ethnographic Research:*A Mixed Methods Approach, is the first book of its kind. Unlike texts that describe and detail methods for doing ethnographic and qualitative research once in the field, Book 2 explores in...