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Learning is active in nature. It is something you do, not something that is done to you. Engineering educators around the world recognize this basic truth and implement one or another form of active learning to enhance their teaching. Active learning in Engineering (ALE) was started as an initiative from the Polytechnic in Nantes, France and the University the Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. The…
Warum ist es wichtig, Konzepte der Achtsamkeit und Meditation an unseren Hochschulen zu etablieren? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf das Bildungssystem und auf die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer? Andreas de Bruin widmet sich den Ergebnissen der ersten zehn Jahre des seit 2010 existierenden Münchner Modells »Achtsamkeit und Meditation im Hochschulkontext«, an dem bislang über 2000 Studierend…
Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor's to the Professoriate describes best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs. The aut…
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often pos…
Overview: Students who do not know what careers they would like to pursue will be asked to review supplementary career resources such as the Occupational Handbook or the Virginia Wizard or the local employment office or any authoritative resources which could give them information about career pathways. Students will choose at least two occupations that they would be interested in pursuing. For…
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been the focus of much debate and development within education, especially in the primary sector. This text offers tried and tested ideas for using IT effectively across the whole primary curriculum.
Overview: Modern Pastry and Plated Dessert Techniques is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s food service and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook and Baker programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and there for can be used to support a wide variety of pro…
Seit ihrer Gründung am 1. August 1971 entwickelte sich die FH Bielefeld bis heute zur größten Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in Ostwestfalen-Lippe - mit über 11.000 Studierenden, mehr als 230 Professor*innen und 630 Mitarbeitenden sowie seit 2015 mit einem beeindruckenden zentralen Hochschulgebäude am Campus Bielefeld. In dem anlässlich des 50. Jubiläums der Hochschule erschei…