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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments
Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-end…
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Peace parks :conservation and conflict resolution
An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zon…
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- 9780262266970
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- 1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Introduction to statistical relational learning
"Index" : an online index is available on the book webpage at http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/index.htm.Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material, tutorials for different proposed approaches, and applications.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256230
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- 1 online resource (ix, 586 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital citizenship :the internet, society, and participation
This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280280
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- 1 online resource (x, 221 pages) :illustrations
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The information resources policy handbook : research for the Information Age
To understand the Information Age one must understand the concept of information as a resource. Like other basic resources, such as energy and materials, information resources are building blocks of society. But unlike energy and materials, they are far more abundant and versatile. Information resources include computers, telecommunications, the mass media, and financial services, all created o…
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- 0585070156
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 631 pages) : illustrations
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- 005 INF
A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- 9781107325166
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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Elements of argumentation
Here the authors introduce techniques for formalizing deductive argumentation in artificial intelligence, emphasising emerging formalizations for practical argumentation. They discuss how arguments can be constructed, how key intrinsic and extrinsic factors can be identified, and how these analyses can be harnessed in the real world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268400
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- 1 online resource (298 pages)
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A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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Effective advocacy :lessons from East Asia's environmentalists
"Effective Advocacy examines successful environmental advocacy in East Asia to develop the Connected Stakeholder Model, which helps explain why a small number of advocacy strategies are particularly effective around the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363426
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Combating inequality :rethinking government's role
"Edited collection with contributions from notable economists on policy solutions to the problem of economic inequality in advanced economies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363534
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