Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education. Bringing together researchers from such fields as: psychology, education, information technology, and economics, the book offers a comprehensive overview of mass collaboration, novel, cross discip…
"The concept of world-class universities (WCU) has increasingly gained popularity in the past two decades around the world. WCU are regarded as cornerstone institutions of any academic system and imperative to develop a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. The development of such universities is high on the policy agenda of various stakeholders worldwide, in both develope…
The Australian Academy of Science has had a long standing interest in the provision of science education to Australian school students. Recognising that skills and attitudes in science are acquired at an early age, the Academy in 1994 launched a major program in science education at primary school level under the title Primary Investigations. Since science teachers at primary and lower secondar…
This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian socio-political novels influenced by various socialisms, socialist-feminist concerns, economic and sexual politics, and the genre o…
Technical Theatre II (Intermediate) CHAPTER 1: JOBS IN TECHNICAL THEATRE CHAPTER 2: WORKING IN A NEW VENUE CHAPTER 3: PERFORMANCE ETIQUETTE CHAPTER 4: THE ACTOR SCENE BREAKDOWN CHAPTER 5: SCENERY CHAPTER 6: STAGE PROPERTIES CHAPTER 7: STAGE LIGHTING CHAPTER 8: COSTUMES CHAPTER 9: SOUND CHAPTER 10: BLOCKING NOTATION CHAPTER 11: PRODUCTION REPORTS CHAPTER 12: CUEING SCRIPTS
Buku ini merupakan hasil kerjasama akademik antara para sarjana di Norwegia, Sudan, Zambia, dan Afrika Selatan, dan merupakan titik akhir dari perjalanan yang dimulai di Omdurman, Sudan pada tahun 2007, ketika para sarjana dari empat negara bertemu untuk membahas mata kuliah master di pendidikan internasional dan pembangunan melintasi batas geografis dan epistemologis. Pada bulan Desember 2012,…
Consolidating existing knowledge in Design Science, this book proposes a new research method to aid the exploration of design and problem solving within business, science and technology. It seeks to overcome a dichotomy that exists in the field between theory and practice to enable researches to find solutions to problems, rather than focusing on the explanation and exploration of the problems …
This succinct book focuses on computer aided design (CAD), 3-D modeling, and engineering analysis and the ways they can be applied effectively in research and industrial sectors including aerospace, defense, automotive, and consumer products. These efficient tools, deployed for R&D in the laboratory and the field, perform efficiently three-dimensional modeling of finished products, render compl…
This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance. It explores how software-based companies are a significant factor behind economic growth and serve as important bridge builders between industries. Countries with a weak and underdeveloped software industry risk being left behind in the 21st century. The book examines the case o…
C++ Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is a handy code cookbook reference guide that cover the latest C++ 14 as well as some of the code templates available in the latest Standard Template Library (STL). In this handy reference, you'll find numbers, strings, dates, times, classes, exceptions, streams, flows, pointers and more. Also, you'll see various code samples, templates for C++ algori…