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The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education
This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From there, it proposes some solutions, including three innovative programs, that make universities more responsive to needs, as we…
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- 978-981-16-6506-6
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- XII, 80
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 HEL d
Educating Students to Improve the World
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensi…
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- 978-981-15-3887-2
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- X, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 REI e
Transforming Lives and Systems : Cultural Competence and the Higher Education…
This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical point of departure for developing an institution-wide agenda of cultural competence. The NCCC’s work since its inception reflects efforts to lay important foundations for cu…
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- 978-981-15-5351-6
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- VII, 95
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 TRA
Higher Education Landscape 2030 : A Trend Analysis Based on the AHEAD Interna…
This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project “(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)—International Horizon Scanning / Trend Analysis on Digital Higher Education.” It examines the latest developments in learning theory, didactics, and digital-education technology in con…
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- 978-3-030-44897-4
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- XXI, 59
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 LUE t
The Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching : Connecting Sophisticated Thinki…
This book provides a practical philosophy for promoting students' sophisticated thinking from Early Childhood to PhD in ways that explicitly interconnect across the years of education. It will help teachers, academics and the broader learning and teaching community to understand and implement these connections by introducing a conceptual framework, the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (M…
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- 978-981-15-2683-1
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- XIX, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 WIL m
Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World : How Six Nations Support Teacher…
This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise n…
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- 978-981-15-2137-9
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- VIII, 135
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 EMP
Open and Distance Education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East : National Pe…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of the national higher education systems in these countries…
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- 978-981-13-5787-9
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- VIII, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 OPE
The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education : A …
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants develop the idea of a multidisciplinary project entailing the design of a self-service and parking lot in a dismissed area close to the city centre. The multidisciplinary projec…
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- 978-3-030-02571-7
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- XV, 143
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 MOR c
Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas : National …
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and …
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- 978-981-13-0298-5
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- VI, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 OPE
Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality : A Co…
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
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- 978-3-031-53111-8
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 338 BRE a
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