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Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013 Workshops: USL 2013, IWSLL 2013,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops held at the ICWL 2013 International Conference on Web Based Learning in Kenting, Taiwan, in October 2013. The 29 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They were held at the following workshops: First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Social Learning, USL 2013; 2013 International Work…
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- 978-3-662-46315-4
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- XXIII, 280
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances in Web-Based Learning -- ICWL 2015: 14th International Conference, G…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2015, held in Guangzhou, China, in Noavember 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaborative and peer learning; e…
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- 978-3-319-25515-6
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- XIII, 280
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Beyond Economic Interests : Critical Perspectives on Adult Literacy and Numer…
Over the last two decades, an increasingly economistic discourse has dominated discussions about adult literacy and numeracy. This book provides critiques of, and alternative narratives to the dominant discourse. Authors provide tools and methodologies of critique, including ways of seeing how policies in the countries of focus come to be captured almost completely by the interests of business…
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The Future of Ubiquitous Learning
This book explores emerging pedagogical perspectives based on the design of new learning spaces supported by digital technologies and brings together some of the best research in this field. The book is divided into three themes: foundations of emerging pedagogies, learning designs for emerging pedagogies and, adaptive and personalized learning. The chapters provide up-to-date information about…
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- 978-3-662-47724-3
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- XIV, 271
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- Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
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Human Rights in Language and STEM Education:Science, Technology, Engineering …
This volume explores the challenges of teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in local languages and local contexts in a range of countries around the world. Many countries around the world, including African countries, have been largely excluded from the transformation that is going on in STEM pedagogy in the USA, where the emphasis is on the imp…
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- 978-94-6300-405-3
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- 370 HUM
The Future of Technology Education
The book results from a collaboration between leading academics in the field, the wider group of authors having had input into each of the chapters. Through the development of a deep understanding of technology, based on a thoughtful philosophy, pathways are discussed to facilitate student learning opportunities in technology education. Consideration is given to the purpose(s) of technology edu…
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- 978-981-287-170-1
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- XII, 281
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- Contemporary Issues in Technology Education
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The Future in Learning Science: What’s in it for the Learner?
This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education. To do this, the book explores major contemporary shifts in the forms of science that could or should be learned in the next 20 years, what forms of learning of that science should occur, and how that learning happens, including from th…
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- 978-3-319-16543-1
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- XV, 299
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Local Languages as a Human Right in Education; Comparative Cases from Africa
There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a language neither pupils nor the teachers understand well. This is the greatest educational problem there is in Africa. This is the problem this book discusses and it is therefore an important book. The recen…
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- 978-94-6209-947-0
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The Foxfire Approach
Participants in Foxfire’s Program for Teachers, from early childhood teachers to college professors, describe their adaptations of the Foxfire Approach for instruction at all grade levels, all subjects and all demographics – including how they coped with the challenges they faced. One practitioner describes how she used the Core Practices to design instruction in rural China. We have an eng…
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- 978-94-6300-564-7
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- XVIII, 162
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Unhooking from Whiteness Resisting the Esprit de Corps
What happens to people when they choose to unhook from the rules and modes of thought whiteness requires and expects of them? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires shar…
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- 978-94-6300-527-2
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- XX, 164
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