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Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations
This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well a…
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- 978-3-030-55878-9
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- 370 DIR d
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals equips educators working in clinical, classroom, and online settings with a variety of teaching strategies that facilitate essential human connections. Included is an overview of the educational theory that grounds the authors’ thinking, enabling the educators who employ the strategies included in the book to assess their fit…
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- 9781771992855.01
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- 166 pages
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals equips educators working in clinical, classroom, and online settings with a variety of teaching strategies that facilitate essential human connections. Included is an overview of the educational theory that grounds the authors’ thinking, enabling the educators who employ the strategies included in the book to assess their fit…
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- 9781771992855.01
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- 166 pages
Economics of Higher Education
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education services, demand and supply in markets for higher education, why and how state and federal gov…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7504-5
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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- XI, 390
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
In this important collection of essays by practitioners and scholars that has been downloaded nearly half a million times is an overview of some of the most pressing issues in online education. By addressing transformations arising from educational technology advances and the new business conditions and modes of delivery of education, the contributors to The Theory and Practice of Online Learni…
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- 978-1-897425-08-4
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 484 pages
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments Creating and Sustaining Communitie…
Built upon the theoretical framework of the Community of Inquiry – the premise that higher education is both a collaborative and individually constructivist learning experience – the authors present seven principles that provide a valuable set of tools for harnessing the opportunities for teaching and learning available through technology. Focusing on teaching practices related to the desig…
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- 978-1-927356-47-0
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 5.5 x 8.5, 154 pages
Being and Becoming Scientists Today
The authors provide teachers with an approach to foster and answer these questions by concentrating on learners and learning. They argue that students are typically taught from a disciplinary perspective of science. Using this lens students are viewed as people who need to learn a particular canon of information, methods, and ways of knowing about the world—a perspective that may be useful fo…
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- 978-94-6300-349-0
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- XVI, 234
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- 370
Being a Teacher Researcher : A Primer on Doing Authentic Inquiry Research on …
Using a sociocultural approach to critical action research, this book is a primer in doing reflexive, authentic inquiry research in teaching and learning for educators as teacher | researchers. Rather than the artificial dichotomy between theory and practice, the roles of teacher and researcher are instead seen in a dialectic relationship (indicated by the symbol | in teacher | researcher) …
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- XX, 122
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- 370
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments Creating and Sustaining Communitie…
Built upon the theoretical framework of the Community of Inquiry – the premise that higher education is both a collaborative and individually constructivist learning experience – the authors present seven principles that provide a valuable set of tools for harnessing the opportunities for teaching and learning available through technology. Focusing on teaching practices related to the desig…
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- 978-1-927356-47-0
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 5.5 x 8.5, 154 pages
Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isomet…
This book discusses the learning and teaching of geometry, with a special focus on kindergarten and primary education. It examines important new trends and developments in research and practice, and emphasizes theoretical, empirical and developmental issues. Further, it discusses various topics, including curriculum studies and implementation, spatial abilities and geometric reasoning, as well …
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- 978-3-319-44271-6
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- VII, 50
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