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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning
This volume presents recent research on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. It contains the contributions of MIS4TEL 2015, which took place in Salamanca, Spain,. On June 3rd to 5th 2015. Like the previous edition, this proceedings and the conference is an open forum for discussing intelligent systems for Technology Enhanced Learning and empirical methodolo…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-19631-2
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- XIV, 91
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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The Finest Blend Graduate Education in Canada
Drawing on various research methods, the contributors to the volume investigate the sustainability of blended learning, shifts in pedagogical practices, and the role of instructional designers. They share key practices for both graduate students and instructors and emphasize the importance of institutional and departmental support for both students and faculty transitioning to blended delivery …
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- 9781771992770.01
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- -
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 328
Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
This widely anticipated book harnesses the dispersed knowledge of international experts who highlight pedagogical, organizational, cultural, social, and economic factors that influence the adoption and integration of emerging technologies in distance education. Emerging Technologies in Distance Education provides expert advice on how educators can launch effective and engaging distance educatio…
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- 978-1-897425-76-3
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- -
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 350
Insights from Research in Science Teaching and Learning
This book includes studies that represent the state of the art in science education research and convey a sense of the variation in educational traditions around the world. The papers are organized into six main sections: science teaching processes, conceptual understanding, reasoning strategies, early years science education, and affective and social aspects of science teaching and learning. T…
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- 978-3-319-20073-6
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- IX, 313
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- -
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- 360
Inspiring STEM Minds
The purpose of this book is to serve as a supplemental reference text for 21st century elementary classrooms. The primary objective is to help teachers inspire and engage their students in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects. The push for incorporating STEM education in elementary school has become increasingly important, yet most educators and publishers have …
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- 978-94-6300-352-0
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- X, 126
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- 360 ISA i
Barrio Nerds Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle
When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez in 1982, he received much criticism due to his views on issues such as assimilation, bilingual education, and affirmative action. Polemically, since Rodriguez’s publication, a book length revisiting of some of his ideas is for the most part non-existent. I…
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- 978-94-6300-767-2
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- VIII, 128
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- 378
Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education
This volume presents different conceptual and theoretical frameworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchers to study emotions. It includes innovative approaches that push the methodological boundaries that have served educational researchers until now and proposes new ways of researching emotions in educational contexts. In particular, this edited volume provides a…
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- 978-3-319-29047-8
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- XIV, 299
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Mergers in Higher Education:The Experience from Northern Europe
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at sheddin…
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- 978-3-319-21917-2
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- XII, 236
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education:International Practice and Emerging…
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces a series of major c…
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- 978-3-319-13134-4
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- XXI, 307
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- -
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Educating generation next : young people, teachers and schooling in transition
Explores the challenges faced by young people in this environment as they transition from school to work and asks how well young people are prepared for the contemporary labour force during their school years. Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for working life of the 21st century?
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- 9781137526397
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- ix, 207 pages ; 23 cm
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- 379.1
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