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The real world of college :what higher education is and what it can be
"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368536
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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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The future of learning institutions in a digital age
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …
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- 9780262258715
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- 1 online resource (xi, 67 pages) :illustrations.
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The future of thinking :learning institutions in a digital age
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. Wh…
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- 9780262266529
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages) :illustrations.
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Schools and the equal opportunity problem
Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United Stat.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286381
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- 1 online resource (vi, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Educational effectiveness and ineffectiveness : a critical review of the know…
This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. The book presents a systemic outlook on educational effectiveness and improvement, as it starts out from an integrated multi-level model that comprises system level, school level and instructional conditions.
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- 9789401774574
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- xv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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