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The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that
set out to explore open government geospatial data from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers on the grant adopted a
critical social science perspective grounded in the imperative that
the research should be relevant to government and civil society
partners in the field. This book builds on the knowledge developed
during the course of the grant and asks the question, "What is the
future of open data?" The contributors' insights into the future of
open data combine observations from five years of research about
the Canadian open data community with a critical perspective on
what could and should happen as open data efforts evolve. Each of
the chapters in this book addresses different issues and each is
grounded in distinct disciplinary or interdisciplinary
perspectives. The opening chapter reflects on the origins of open
data in Canada and how it has progressed to the present date,
taking into account how the Indigenous data sovereignty movement
intersects with open data. A series of chapters address some of the
pitfalls and opportunities of open data and consider how the
changing data context may impact sources of open data, limits on
open data, and even liability for open data. Another group of
chapters considers new landscapes for open data, including open
data in the global South, the data priorities of local governments,
and the emerging context for rural open data.
After more than a century of being undervalued, further education
has been thrust into the limelight. How have the colleges fared?
How have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding,
governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework? What
do those running the colleges and working in them make of the
changes? What are their prospects for the new millennium?
Further Education Reformed is the definitive account of where
further education has got to and where it might be heading.
Containing specifically commissioned papers by some of the most
respected academics currently working in the field of further
education, this book draws the situation as it is now and looks
forward to the developments of the coming years. It will be vital
reading for anyone concerned with further education in particular,
and education in general, whether as a policy-maker, governor,
manager, teacher, employer or student.
This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to
the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the
publication of the Gutenberg Bible and the beginning of the print
revolution. The collection opens with wide-ranging papers on
handwriting and the physical make-up of the book. In the second
group of papers the emphasis is on the 'look' of the book,
complemented by a third group dealing with scribes, readers and the
availability of books. The editors' introduction provides an
overview of the medieval book.
The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that
set out to explore open government geospatial data from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers on the grant adopted a
critical social science perspective grounded in the imperative that
the research should be relevant to government and civil society
partners in the field. This book builds on the knowledge developed
during the course of the grant and asks the question, "What is the
future of open data?" The contributors' insights into the future of
open data combine observations from five years of research about
the Canadian open data community with a critical perspective on
what could and should happen as open data efforts evolve. Each of
the chapters in this book addresses different issues and each is
grounded in distinct disciplinary or interdisciplinary
perspectives. The opening chapter reflects on the origins of open
data in Canada and how it has progressed to the present date,
taking into account how the Indigenous data sovereignty movement
intersects with open data. A series of chapters address some of the
pitfalls and opportunities of open data and consider how the
changing data context may impact sources of open data, limits on
open data, and even liability for open data. Another group of
chapters considers new landscapes for open data, including open
data in the global South, the data priorities of local governments,
and the emerging context for rural open data.
This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores
ways to engage students in the classroom. It draws on the
principles of rigorous scholarship and focuses on interactive
learning between the class and the professor and among the
students. Each contributor addresses the need to connect theory
with community practice, deploying different methods in different
contexts, and sharing scholarly reflections about how to improve
the craft of teaching. The essays offer practical suggestions that
allow readers to adapt and apply these ideas in their own
classrooms to suit their particular contexts and share the outcomes
of that process.
STIMULI ART is a quarterly paperback magazine that combines the
""look and feel"" of a paperback and a magazine. The features
include: + Star in You (Praise someone whose life has been
This volume contains material on research based teaching techniques
for use in higher education. The focus is on small group learning
procedures. None of this material has previously appeared in book
form. Twenty of the articles first appeared in the Cooperative
Learning and College Teaching newsletter that Jim Cooper and Pamela
Robinson edited from 1990 to 1999. These articles address
applications of small group learning within a variety of academic
disciplines. Authors of the articles in this work include David and
Roger Johnson, Karl Smith, Joe Cuseo, Susan Prescott Johnston,
Spencer Kagan, Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, Richard Felder, Barbara
Millis and Lisa Gray-Shellberg. Twelve chapters, never before
published, were solicited for this volume. Some of these works
focus on research and theory in active and small group learning and
others address more applied group work in teaching and learning in
the college classroom. The chapters are more comprehensive than the
newsletter articles and include contributions by David and Roger
Johnson, Karl Smith, Spencer Kagan, Barbara Millis, Joe Cuseo,
Susan Prescott Johnston, Cynthia Desrochers, Mark Maier, Philip
Abrami and Donald Bligh. Topics treated in the new chapters contain
recent work in brain-based learning, critical thinking, student
engagement, information technology, distance education, and
learning communities. Readers of the 2003 book edited by Jim,
Pamela and David Ball, Small Group Instruction in Higher Education:
Lessons from the Past, Visions of the Future, will want to add this
text to their libraries, since none of the material in the current
volume appeared in the 2003 book or the 2009 second edition.
The second edition of this title represents a compilation of work
completed by Jim Cooper and his colleagues in the Network for
Cooperative Learning in higher education over the last fifteen
years, including eight new chapters were written specifically for
this edition. It presents a look at the history of small group
instruction research, theory and practice and offers a glimpse at
the future of this powerful instructional strategy.
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