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Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance
Student Outcomes reports on a variety of innovative approaches
taken in universities in a number of nations of their experience in
bringing together learning in courses with learning in co- and
extracurricular activities. Topics range from study abroad programs
to service-learning. Also covered are community-based learning,
cross-disciplinary collaborations, and peer-mentoring. This volume
will introduce you to research and many interesting contexts, such
as the U.S. Naval Academy, where promoting ethical leadership to
cadets has been an important focus. Frame-breaking approaches, such
as having university business students and circus performers
collaborate, are explained within the context of the literature.
The leveraging of Somali immigrant education programs for student
learning is a stimulating activity that is also covered. Another
inventive issue explored is the reformatting of traditional
co-curricular transcripts to reflect a wider indication and measure
of students' skills and abilities.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Multimedia
Technologies: Video Annotation, Multimedia Applications,
Videoconferencing and Transmedia Storytelling examines new research
on how videoconferencing, video annotation, video mapping, and
related technologies are being used in higher education to increase
learner engagement in an epoch of increasing globalization and
diversity. These enabling technologies are reshaping and reframing
the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. Through
case studies, surveys, and literature reviews, this volume will
examine how video, mapping, and related technologies are being used
to improve writing/publishing skills, academic literacies in
students, and create engaging communities of practice through
digital storytelling, narratives, and inter-culturalism. This
volume will also discuss a framework for deploying and assessing
these technologies.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile
Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies examines
new research on how mobile technologies are being used in higher
education to increase learner engagement in an epoch of increasing
globalization and diversity. These enabling technologies are
reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in
higher education. Through case studies, surveys, and literature
reviews, this volume will examine how mobile technologies are being
used to improve teamwork and leadership skills in students, to
create engaging communities of practice, and how these technologies
are being used to create inter-cultural and global experiences.
This volume will also discuss frameworks for adopting and deploying
these technologies.
"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social
Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking
Services" uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to
examine how these social media technologies are being used to
improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging
communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for
e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include
applying positive psychology and cognitive styles in user design,
designing outcome based curricula using student personality types,
engaging second language students through electronic writing tasks,
applying psychological variables on the academic use of social
media, using social media to motivate students to take charge of
their own learning processes, and creatively using technology to
enhance teacher education. This volume will also discuss a
framework for deploying and assessing these technologies in higher
education institutions.
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 higher education are increasingly being called upon to remedy
and forestall such actions. Misbehavior Online in Higher Education
is rich in contemporary case studies, analytical reports, and
up-to-date research providing detailed overviews of various
misbehavior, including cyberbullying, cyberstaling, cyberslacking,
and privacy invasion, hacking, cheating, teasing, and enhanced
prejudicial attitudes. The development of approaches to addressing
these problems is discussed and examples are provided. The book
also anticipates emerging problematic behaviors and explores the
creation of new policies, programs, facilities, and technologies to
tackle such problems.
New technologies provide new ways of delivering the programs and
services of higher educational (HE) institutions. Social media such
as Facebook, blogs, Flickr, Twitter, and the Second Life virtual
world engage constituents and enhance effectiveness. Understanding
the trends in the expanding role of social media in HE and the
related implications for staff preparedness and training is
necessary for future-oriented administrators and practitioners.
This book examines how social media are redefining what university
communities are and the purposes and practices of the various
functional areas in HE. It presents an overview of innovative
practices in the recruitment, advising, retention, graduation and
engagement of students and alumni, and examines social media in
connection with enrollment management, advising and mentoring,
public relations and alumni relations. Topics covered include: how
Facebook helps and hinders students' social integration; connecting
fans and sports more intensively through social media; how to
prepare staff to use social media in robust ways; and, using social
networking sites during the career management process, for social
research and studying abroad.
The purpose of this book is to provide student affairs
professionals who work at Catholic colleges and universities a tool
for reflection and dialogue on difficult issues they face on their
campuses. It is intended to be used in staff development sessions,
in training sessions with student leaders and resident assistants,
and in master's level student affairs preparation programs at
Catholic colleges and universities. This book is the next step in a
series of projects that began in the early 1990s after the
publication by the Vatican of the apostolic constitution Ex Corde
Ecclesiae. This book is a collection of case studies that focus on
particular issues related to Catholic identity that are faced by
student affairs professionals who work at Catholic colleges and
universities. By its very nature, the focus on the difficult issues
we face is a limitation. The editors in no way wish to imply that
Catholic identity is only about problems. Previous research and
experience clearly indicates those who work at Catholic
institutions understand and embrace the opportunities that this
environment provides for them. But as Schaller and Boyle (2006)
indicated, there is a need for dialogue around the difficult issues
that we face. The editors believe that a book of case studies is
particularly helpful because it allows a staff to discuss problems
at fictionalized universities and then ask themselves, "What would
we do here?" The editors solicited cases using a mailing list
provided by the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic
Colleges and Universities (ASACCU); thus, the cases included in
this book represent the real concerns of those practicing in the
field. Some of the cases that are included are true stories of
situations that actually happened, some are fictional, and some are
hybrid stories based on actual events but changed to illustrate an
issue. To protect the privacy of those who were kind enough to
share their difficult issues with their colleagues, the names of
case contributors are listed at the beginning of the book in
alphabetical order, rather than being listed with the cases they
contributed.
The purpose of this book is to provide student affairs
professionals who work at Catholic colleges and universities a tool
for reflection and dialogue on difficult issues they face on their
campuses. It is intended to be used in staff development sessions,
in training sessions with student leaders and resident assistants,
and in master's level student affairs preparation programs at
Catholic colleges and universities. This book is the next step in a
series of projects that began in the early 1990s after the
publication by the Vatican of the apostolic constitution Ex Corde
Ecclesiae. This book is a collection of case studies that focus on
particular issues related to Catholic identity that are faced by
student affairs professionals who work at Catholic colleges and
universities. By its very nature, the focus on the difficult issues
we face is a limitation. The editors in no way wish to imply that
Catholic identity is only about problems. Previous research and
experience clearly indicates those who work at Catholic
institutions understand and embrace the opportunities that this
environment provides for them. But as Schaller and Boyle (2006)
indicated, there is a need for dialogue around the difficult issues
that we face. The editors believe that a book of case studies is
particularly helpful because it allows a staff to discuss problems
at fictionalized universities and then ask themselves, "What would
we do here?" The editors solicited cases using a mailing list
provided by the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic
Colleges and Universities (ASACCU); thus, the cases included in
this book represent the real concerns of those practicing in the
field. Some of the cases that are included are true stories of
situations that actually happened, some are fictional, and some are
hybrid stories based on actual events but changed to illustrate an
issue. To protect the privacy of those who were kind enough to
share their difficult issues with their colleagues, the names of
case contributors are listed at the beginning of the book in
alphabetical order, rather than being listed with the cases they
contributed.
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