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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
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean : The Ca…
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Co…
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- 978-3-319-44177-1
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- XVI, 86
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 510 MAT
Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in the field explore topics such as forest regeneration, genetic effects, wood production and yield, wood harvesting, forest damage agents, biodiversity, water effects, carbon cy…
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- 9783031704840
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- X, 292
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Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change
This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in order to lead to an economic…
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- 9783030992064
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- XVIII, 257
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Mathematics Education in East Africa: Towards Harmonization and Enhancement o…
This Open Access book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes place. It is also a valuable resource for courses in mathematics education in the teacher education colleges, and departments of education in the sub-Saharan Africa region. In the increasingly global and technolo…
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- 978-3-319-27258-0
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- XIV, 80
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 510 MAT
A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World
This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expressions, sufficiency of evidence for inferences from observations to causal relations, and how t…
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- 978-3-031-59135-8
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- XII, 150
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- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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- 501 JOH p
Sisters of the Brotherhood: Alienation and Inclusion in Learning Philosophy
This open access book explores the gendered reality of learning philosophy at the university level, investigating the ways in which women and minority students become alienated from the social practices of a male-dominated field, and examining pedagogical solutions to this problem. It covers the roles and the interactions of the professor and student in the following ways: (1) the historical si…
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- 978-3-031-16670-9
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- XI, 97
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- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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- 100 RUO s
Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought togethe…
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- 9783030807672
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- XXIII, 574
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The Limits of Art : On Borderline Cases of Artworks and their Aesthetic Prope…
This open access book is about exploring interesting borderline cases of art. It discusses the cases of gustatory and olfactory artworks (focusing on food), proprioceptive artworks (dance, martial arts, and rock climbing qua proprioceptive experiences), intellectual artworks (philosophical and scientific theories), as well as the vague limits between painting and photography. The book focus…
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- 978-3-030-54795-0
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- IX, 57
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- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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- 700 BEN l
Weakly Nonlinear Systems: With Applications in Communications Systems
The open access book covers a large class of nonlinear systems with many practical engineering applications. The approach is based on the extension of linear systems theory using the Volterra series. In contrast to the few existing treatments, our approach highlights the algebraic structure underlying such systems and is based on Schwartz’s distributions (rather than functions). The use of di…
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- 978-3-031-40681-2
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- XIV, 371
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