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25 Years of Ed Tech
In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for bo…
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- 9781771993050.01
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- 224
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 208
A Designer’s Log Case Studies in Instructional Design
Power takes the reader inside his world as an instructional designer, as he learns to navigate the slippery slope of supporting faculty in course design. Through his cases, Power helps us understand how to concede on the small decisions (e.g., the order in which to create the various course documents, activities, etc.) to accomplish the non-negotiables (e.g., coherence among course components; …
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- 9781897425466
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- 266
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 266
Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning Foundations and Applications
Contributors to Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning include individuals who are shaping the future of online learning with their innovative applications and investigations on the impact of issues such as openness, analytics, MOOCs, and social media. Building on work first published in Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, the contributors to this collection harness the dispersed…
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- 9781771991490.01
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- 232
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 232
More Moments in Time Images of Exemplary Nursing
Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become a model for others. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group of extraordinary oncology nurses—the people their peers would choose to have care for them if …
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- 978-1-897425-52-7
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- 249
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- 249 pages
Dialectics and the Sublime in Underhill's Mysticism
This book represents a study of Evelyn Underhill's premier work on mysticism, using Hegel's dialectics and Kant's theory of the sublime as interpretive tools. It especially focuses on two prominent features of Underhill's text: the description of the mystical life as one permeated by an intense love between the mystic and infinite reality, and the detailed delineation of stages of mystical deve…
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- 1
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- 9789812874849
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- X, 243
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- 204.22
Sharīʿa in Africa Today: Reactions and Responses
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: in Sudan where total Sharīʿa was applied until recently; in Nigeria where the Northern states re-introduced Sharīʿa courts; in Kenya where the place of Islamic courts…
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- 9789004250543
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- 297 SHA
Politics of Religion/ Religions of Politic
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley—have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious …
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9448-0
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- XIII, 191
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- Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
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- 297.272 WEL p
Beyond enlightenment : Buddhism, religion, modernity
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigate…
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- 978-0-415-37294-7
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- Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
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- 294.344 2 COH b
Militant Jihadism: Today and Tomorrow
Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial decline of the “Caliphate” of the “Islamic State.” This volume explores different aspects of the future trajectories of militant jihadism and the prospective transfor…
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- Vol. 6.0
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- 9789461663023
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- 297.46 MIL m
Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam
This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the University of Adelaide in July 2016 under the same title to explore the multifaceted concept of ʿilm in Islam — its agency and manifestations in the connected realms of science, religion, and the arts. The aim is to explore the Islamic civilisational responses to major shifts in the concept of ‘knowledge…
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- 9781925261769
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- 297.673 ILM i
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