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Education crossing borders :how Singapore and MIT created a new university
"The book chronicles the history of the collaborative partnership between MIT and the Singapore Ministry of Education to create the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the country's fourth public university. Fisher describes how MIT faculty communicated the practices and identity of the Institute as they developed and executed the vision for SUTD, and how local actors at the u…
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- 0262358697
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- 1 online resource.
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Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women
"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…
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- 9781461957249
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations.
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The war on learning : gaining ground in the digital university
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in a war…
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- 9780262323253
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- 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge for sale :the neoliberal takeover of higher education
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or les…
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- First English language edition.
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- 9780262339452
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 155 pages cm.)
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Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle--reputable educational institutions, but not considered equal to the elite and entrenched upper echelon of the Ivy Leagu…
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- 9780262298506
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 320 pages) :illustrations
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Changing Governance in Universities : Italian Higher Education in Comparative…
“This book is one of the very few analyses to carry out a comparison between the evolution of the Italian higher education system and other European systems. … this monograph analyzes with great accuracy and from an original viewpoint the basic weaknesses of a not so atypical case, which might suggest useful reflections for other HE systems at a general level.” (Roberto Moscati, European …
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- 978-1-137-54817-7
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- 378
Prime Ministers at the Australian National University : An Archival Guide
The ANU Archives holds records about all 27 Australian prime ministers in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre and in the university's own archives. Prime ministers have been supporters, visitors, Council members, fellows, students, and even Chancellor of the Australian National University. Prime ministers have also been trade unionists and businessmen, and have been lobbied by trade unions, compani…
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- 9780980728453
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- 370 PIG p
The Making of the Australian National University : 1946-1996
The Australian National University has always been a university with a difference. Conceived in the mid–1940s to serve Australia’s post-war needs for advanced research and postgraduate training, it quickly embraced the ideals and traditions of Oxford and Cambridge. Undergraduate teaching was introduced in 1960, following amalgamation with Canberra University College. The University continue…
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- 9781921536632
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- 370 FOS m
Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility the Degree Generation
This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first year of study for the following three years, when most of them were about to enter the labour m…
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- 978-1-137-53480-4
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- XXI, 188
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- 370 BAT h
The Roskilde Model: Problem-Oriented Learning and Project Work
This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principles of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and participant-directed project work may serve as a basis for planning and applying educational activities at institutions of higher learning. It discusses the dilemmas, problems, and diverging views that ha…
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- 2
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- 978-3-319-09716-9
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