This book presents strategies and practices for facilitating effective learning for mainland Chinese students in western based education - regarding e.g. the choice of instructional techniques, attention to students' cultural dislocation aspects, comfort, familiarity, and ease o…
This book addresses the background of classroom flipping, explores the theoretical underpinnings for why flipping works, and shares current success stories in practice. It provides diverse international examples of classroom flipping for all ages, includes discussions of the aut…
This edited volume explores 21st century stories of hunting, foraging, and fishing for food as unique forms of place-based learning. Through the authors' narratives, it reveals complex social and ecological relationships while readers sample the flavors of foraging in Portland, …
This book explores the history, purpose and understandings of College Based Higher Education. Drawing together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners in the field, the book traces its history and aims, and identifies issues paramount to the survival of the sector, uni…
This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education. Bringing together different disciplinary traditions, including educational science, sociology, and orga…
"Educators have been looking for ways to move beyond critique but it has turned out to be easier to say what is wrong and what needs done than to actually do it. Through this book, Pennell has broken this logjam. She has taken critical pedagogy, critical literacy, and critical m…
Learning Analytics become the key for Personalised Learning and Teaching thanks to the storage, categorisation and smart retrieval of Big Data. Thousands of user data can be tracked online via Learning Management Systems, instant messaging channels, social networks and other way…
Marcel Schütz und Heinke Röbken zeigen die Besonderheiten einer Projekt- oder Abschlussarbeit mit einem organisatorischen Bezug in einem Unternehmen, einem Verband, einer sozialen Einrichtung oder einer Behörde auf. Dieser Leitfaden kann von Studierenden diverser Studiengänge un…
This textbook brings together findings from global research on teaching and learning, with an emphasis on secondary and higher education. The book is unique in that the content is selected in an original way and its presentation reflects the most recent research evidence related…
This qualitative study was designed to explore the phenomenon of non-standardized modern Israel education in Jewish pre-collegiate educational settings across North America. Moreover, it intended to illuminate how lack of standardization in this field could have implications for…
The purpose of the research is to study the perceptions of teachers and administrators toward information technology in female and male high schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The study is the first study to discuss information technology in female schools, as well as all the aspe…
The main focus of the research was to determine if the systematic use of formative assessment attributes had an impact on two affective variables—Academic Efficacy and Eagerness to Learn. Both the control and experimental students' affect was measured using a pre and post test a…
The Aramaic Book of Ahiqar, an ancient instruction that combines a novella and set of wise sayings, was discovered among a cache of papyri dating to the 5th c. B.C.E. belonging to a community of Judeans on the southern Egyptian Nile-island of Elephantine. The text describes a co…
Differences in reported incidence rates of reading problems, reading reversals, and instructional practices for Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third grades in the US, South Korea, and Cyprus were examined. The instrument used to complete this investigation was the Letter Rever…
