This groundbreaking book offers a down-to-earth resource for the practical application of blended learning in higher education as well as a comprehensive examination of the topic. Well-grounded in research, Blended Learning in Higher Education clearly demonstrates how the blende…
Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves bu…
Andrew McGettigan surveys the emerging brave new world of higher education, outlines the architecture of the new policy regime and offers an urgent warning that our universities are now becoming commercial enterprises, which threaten to transform education from a public good int…
Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices, and student debt has reached an all-time high. Americans are questioning the worth of a college education, even as studies show how important it is to economic and social mobility
The global economic crisis has required governments across the globe to reconsider their spending priorities. It is within this demanding economic context that higher education systems have been steadily restructured with in many ways the English model in the vanguard of change.…
Despite both positive and negative perceptions of the current state of higher education, the contemporary debate over what it is to be a university is limited. Most of all, it is limited imaginatively. The range of imagined options is narrow. The imagination has not been given a…
This book addresses the challenge of developing effective feedback processes in higher education, combining theory and practice to equip and empower educators. Including discussions on promoting student engagement with feedback, technology-enabled feedback, and effective peer fe…
Technological advances and the opportunities created by digitalization are transforming the educational environment by creating different types of transformations. Technology creates opportunities to learn diffeently and presents challenges for education, as it is necessary to e…
Generation Z is rapidly replacing Millennials on college campuses. Those born from 1995 through 2010 have different motivations, learning styles, characteristics, skill sets, and social concerns than previous generations. This book showcases findings from a study of over 1100 Ge…
