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Transnational higher education was triggered largely by the
marketization of higher education, which itself manifests in such
characteristics as academic rankings, institutional branding, and
an emphasis on managerialism. Recent advances in technology, and
the global COVID-19 pandemic, have also driven a "virtual"
internationalization of higher education, with universities
expanding their digital footprints overseas, accelerating their
distance education offerings, and exploring such innovations as
virtual exchange programs. Global Perspectives on the
Internationalization of Higher Education documents contemporary
perspectives on the internationalization of higher education and
considers its history throughout the years in order to understand
potential future directions. Covering key topics such as student
recruitment, institutional branding, and student mobility, this
premier reference source is ideal for administrators, principals,
researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, instructors,
and students.
Higher education in the UK is in crisis. The idea of the public
university is under assault, and both the future of the sector and
its relationship to society are being gambled. Higher education is
increasingly unaffordable, its historic institutions are becoming
untenable, and their purpose is resolutely instrumental. What and
who have led us to this crisis? What are the alternatives? To whom
do we look for leadership in revealing those alternatives? This
book critically analyses intellectual leadership in the university,
exploring ongoing efforts from around the world to create
alternative models for organizing higher education and the
production of knowledge. Its authors offer their experience and
views from inside and beyond the structures of mainstream higher
education, in order to reflect on efforts to create alternatives.
In the process the volume asks: is it possible to re imagine the
university democratically and co operatively? If so, what are the
implications for leadership not just within the university but also
in terms of higher education's relationship to society? The authors
argue that mass higher education is at the point where it no longer
reflects the needs, capacities and long term interests of global
society. An alternative role and purpose is required, based upon
'mass intellectuality' or the real possibility of democracy in
learning and the production of knowledge.
Introducing change to higher education has always been a difficult
and slow process. But over the last two decades, information and
communication technologies have served to transform the traditional
classroom and break down the barriers to education despite any
insecurity educators have felt. Online education is now viewed as
an opportunity. Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning
in Higher Education: Theory into Practice is a collection of
stories that provide those who work in higher education a source of
both information and inspiration. The stories are told by some 40
professionals from all across the English-speaking world, detailing
their theoretical and practical perspectives on the impact
technology has had and will have on the learning experiences of
higher education graduates.
A veteran college dean gives parents of college students all the
practical guidance they'll need to navigate the labyrinth of
bureaucracies and policies in order to support their student's
academic career and extracurricular life. Most books for college
parents dwell on the emotional and psychological challenges when
their son or daughter "cuts loose" into the quasi-dependent,
quasi-adult limbo of college. Here at last is an expert
nuts-and-bolts guide showing parents how to work collaboratively
with their children to navigate the college bureaucracy-a labyrinth
that at times seems perversely designed to frustrate parents at
every turn, even on such basic matters as tuition and fees, grades,
and disciplinary, legal, and medical problems. Drawing on her 20
years of experience as a student affairs dean at a top-ranked
national university, Helen Akinc teaches college parents everything
they need to know about policies and practices today in college
administration, instruction, and student services. The practical
advice gathered in this handbook will empower college parents to
extract enough information from the system to support, guide, and
monitor the academic career and general well-being of their college
student-both on campus and off, in both routine and special
situations. A bibliography of suggested websites, readings, and
additional resources at the end of most chapters A comprehensive
index
This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong
Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their
institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across
Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse
living conditions and are confronted with a variety of
institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their
opportunities in education and labour. Considering the relevance of
LLP in shaping those opportunities, the chapters draw from
multi-level, mixed-methods research and offer original insights on
the interplay of discourses and governance patterns in the
processes of policy-making and deliverance. The book yields
noteworthy insights into the widely differing realities across the
European landscape, and also into the diverging ways young people
deal with and actively participate in LLP.
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The rapid rise of e-learning worldwide means that campuses are
creating new positions in distance learning leadership, often at
the vice-president or vice-provost level. Frequently, those
applying for such positions are recently graduated doctoral
students or faculty members who have never served in
administration. Unlike any other book to date, this Guide to
Administering Online Learning provides easy access to an overview
of tasks to be accomplished or maintained and perspectives to
consider in order to direct dynamic online initiatives. In it,
experienced distance learning teachers and administrators share
their insights regarding what must be done to administer effective
online learning, including theoretical insights as well as
practical principles. They provide comprehensive guidelines for
addressing issues and needs that distance learning administrators
currently face: barriers to adoption, policies, legalities, ethics,
strategic planning, emerging technologies, design of professional
development, management of the course development process, quality
assurance, student support, and recruitment and marketing. This
book is a timely offering from those who have effectively led
distance learning initiatives for those who are interested in
leading distance learning for the next generation of learners. Each
chapter includes questions, prompts, or activities to help readers
relate the concept to their own experiences.
While situated and constructivist theory has generated useful
guidelines for the foundations of authentic learning environments,
few concrete examples exist. ""Authentic Learning Environments in
Higher Education"" provides rich descriptions of the principles
that guide the development of an authentic learning environment,
while also providing concrete examples across a wide range of
discipline areas. The chapters in ""Authentic Learning Environments
in Higher Education"" present the challenges and successes of the
authentic approach, and the authors relate the practical design of
their learning environments to both discipline-based and situated
theory. Readers will use the descriptions of a range of
implementations to guide their own design and development of an
authentic learning environment.
This book looks at a number of topics in economic education,
presenting multiple perspectives from those in the field to anyone
interested in teaching economics. Using anecdotes, classroom
experiments and surveys, the contributing authors show that, with
some different or new techniques, teaching economics can be more
engaging for students and help them better retain what they
learned. Chapters cover a wide range of approaches to teaching
economics, from interactive approaches such as utilizing video
games and Econ Beats, to more rigorous examinations of government
policies, market outcomes and exploring case studies from specific
courses. Many of the chapters incorporate game theory and provide
worked out examples of games designed to help students with
intuitive retention of the material, and these games can be
replicated in any economics classroom. While the exercises are
geared towards college-level economics students, instructors can
draw inspiration for course lectures from the various approaches
taken here and utilize them at any level of teaching. This book
will be very useful to instructors in economics interested in
bringing innovative teaching methods into the classroom.
A thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has
become an international standard for curriculum development in
health professional education. Intended for faculty and other
content experts who have an interest or responsibility as educators
in their discipline, Curriculum Development for Medical Education
has extended its vision to better serve a diverse professional and
international audience. Building on the time-honored, practical,
and user-friendly approach of the six-step model of curriculum
development, this edition is richly detailed, with numerous
examples of innovations that challenge traditional teaching models.
In addition, the fourth edition presents * updates in our
understanding of how humans learn; * a new chapter on curricula
that address community needs and health equity; and * an increased
emphasis throughout on health systems science, population health,
equity, educational technology in health professions education, and
interprofessional education. This new edition remains a
cutting-edge tool and practical guidebook for faculty members and
administrators responsible for the educational experiences of
health professional students, residents, fellows, and
practitioners. It includes chapters on each of the steps of
curriculum development, with updated examples and questions to
guide the application of the timeless principles. Subsequent
chapters cover curriculum maintenance and enhancement,
dissemination, and curriculum development for larger programs.
Appendixes present examples of full curricula designed using the
six-step approach, which is widely recognized as the current
standard for publication and dissemination of new curricula and
provides a basis for meaningful educational interventions,
scholarship, and career advancement for the health professional
educator. The book also provides curricular, faculty development,
and funding resources. Contributors: Chadia N. Abras, Belinda Y.
Chen, Heidi L. Gullett, Mark T. Hughes, David E. Kern, Brenessa M.
Lindeman, Pamela A. Lipsett, Mary L. O'Connor Leppert, Amit K.
Pahwa, Deanna Saylor, Mamta K. Singh, Sean A. Tackett, Patricia A.
Thomas
What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a
bachelor's degree still be viable-or 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? Over the
internet? Or through mobile devices untethered by time and place?
And by whom? By professors dedicated to their disciplines, by
volunteers driven by a passion to share, or by new kinds of
learning communities, as yet unimagined?
This much is certain: education is changing. But today, the
higher education community is struggling with serious challenges:
budget dollars are tighter than ever; our capacity to admit
students who want an education has diminished sharply; and in the
U.S., our standing as the premier global provider of advanced
education is slipping. Imagining a new future for higher education
will require vision-a creative capacity to see what might be
possible for tomorrow's learners-and resolve-the ability to assess
risk, forge new kinds of partnerships, and move confidently toward
goals, even under difficult circumstances.
SunGard Higher Education worked closely with Dr. Ihlenfeldt over
the years as he worked tirelessly to shape a new future for
Chippewa Valley Technical College. Today CVTC boasts a nationally
recognized faculty, state-of-the art facilities and equipment,
online and blended classrooms, and partnerships with area
businesses that help to sustain a community. Visionary leadership
informed by careful analysis can make a tremendous difference in
people's lives. These are skills Bill shares with all of us in his
book, "Visionary Leadership." Its publication couldn't be timelier
and SunGard Higher Education is proud to sponsor its
publication.
This book offers first-person narratives of teachers' curriculum
encounters. The reflections of teachers are presented using Pinar's
Method of Currere as a tool for undertaking deep analysis of
teachers' curriculum encounters. The Method of Currere allows
teachers to embody curriculum in all its forms, allowing for
reflection on encounters in the formal, informal, hidden curriculum
and beyond. The book aims to provide readers with a broad
understanding of curriculum as the lived experience encapsulating
the educational, personal, and professional life of the teacher. In
this way teachers are able to trace and make sense of the
development of their knowledge and make changes that lead to the
continuous offering of quality education. The book will be of
interest to students, scholars and practitioners involved in
curriculum studies, teacher education/training, teaching, and
general education.
Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and
Opportunities from Four Continents offers a detailed study of
higher education cooperation between the EU and four continents
with an examination of the challenges and opportunities. These
findings have enabled the development of a new understanding of the
internationalisation of higher education.
Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education publishes
twenty essays on early modern institutional academic networks and
the history of the book. The case studies examine universities,
schools, and academies across a wide geographical range throughout
Europe, and in Central America. The volume suggests pathways for
future research into institutional hierarchies, cultural ties, and
how networks of policy makers were embedded in complex scholarly
and scientific developments. Topics include institutions and
political entanglements; locality and mobility, especially the
movement of scholars and scholarship between institutions;
communication, collaboration, and the circulation of academic
knowledge. The essays use studies of print and book cultures to
provide insights into cooperative interregional markets, travel and
trade. Contributors: Laurence Brockliss, Liam Chambers, Liam
Chambers, Peter Davidson, Mordechai Feingold, Alette Fleischer,
Willem Frijhoff, Anja- Silvia Goeing, Martina Hacke, Michael
Hunter, Urs B. Leu, David A. Lines, Ian Maclean, Thomas O'Connor,
Glyn Parry, Yari Perez Marin, Elizabeth Sandis, Andreas Sohn, Jane
Stevenson, Iolanda Ventura, and Benjamin Wardhaugh.
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