 | A Guide to Leadership and Management in Higher Education
A Guide to Leadership and Management in Higher Education: Managing Across the Generations
by Poppy Fitch & Brian Van Brunt
A Guide to Leadership and Management in Higher Education shares an innovative approach to supervision, leadership, and management in the higher education workplace.
Drawing from humanism and positive psychology, Fitch and Van Brunt weave together a compelling narrative for managing employees across generational differences.
This book shares key leadership lessons and advice on how to inspire creativity, increase efficiency, and tap into the talents of your diverse, multi-generational staff.
This guide offers practical and detailed advice on establishing new relationships, setting expectations, encouraging accountability, addressing conflict, and supervising difficult staff.
Focusing on how to build and strengthen connections through genuineness and empathic caring, this book provides important guidance for today’s college and university leaders.
Published: 7th April 2016
ISBN: 9781138913172
Number Of Pages: 196
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 | Academic Writing and Dyslexia
Academic Writing and Dyslexia: A Visual Guide to Writing at University
by Adrian J. Wallbank
This book presents a unique visual approach to academic writing and composition specifically tailored to the needs of dyslexic students in higher education. Readers will learn to successfully structure and articulate their ideas, get to grips with critical reading, thinking and writing, and fulfil their full academic potential.
The ‘writing process’ is demystified and techniques for writing compelling, insightful and mark generating essays are conveyed via innovative and meaningful representations, templates, images, icons and prompts, specifically designed to meet the visual and ‘big picture’ strengths of dyslexic learners. A companion website offers supplementary exercises, examples, videos and a full range of downloadable templates and bookmarks.
Written by a dyslexic for dyslexics, Academic Writing and Dyslexia is underpinned by extensive research. As a dyslexic student you will learn to present your thoughts with confidence, critically evaluate competing arguments and gain top marks. The book will help you bridge the gap between your existing coping strategies and the increased demands and rigours of academic writing at university. It will be an invaluable resource for dyslexic students, academics, dyslexia specialists, learning developers and writing tutors throughout the higher education sector.
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 | Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education
Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education: Teaching for Leadership, Innovation, and Creativity
by Anastasia Misseyanni, Militiades D Lytras, Paraskevi Papadopoulou and Christina Marouli
This book focuses on selected best practices for effective active learning in Higher Education. Contributors present the epistemology of active learning along with specific case studies from different disciplines and countries. Discussing issues around ICTs, collaborative learning, experiential learning and other active learning strategies.
CONTENTS
Section I: Active Learning in Higher Education: A Theoretical Background
1. Towards an Epistemology of Active Learning in Higher Education and its Promise; Lorayne Robertson-á
2. Designing for Active Learning: A Problem Centered Approach; Susan Stetson-Tiligadas
Section II: Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education: Stories and Lessons Learnt
3. Active Learning Stories in Higher Education: Lessons Learned and Good Practices in STEM Education; Anastasia Misseyanni, Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Christina Marouli and Miltiadis Lytras
4. Concepts and communication in the early stages of an environmental science degree: a case study of formative activities and tasks; Peter J. Shaw
5. Active Learning Strategies: Stories and Lessons Learnt - Studying Environment in the Field; Daniel Moscovici and Emma Witt
6. Online Learning as the Catalyst for more Deliberate Pedagogies: A Canadian University Experience; Lorayne Robertson, Wendy Barber and William Muirhead
7. Active, Cooperative Learning in Online Higher Education: The Learning Design for Change Management at the Universitat Obierta de Catalunya; Eva Rimbau-Gilabert
8. Engaging the non-Art History Student: A Tale of Five Football Players (and others) in Roman Art; Gretchen Kreahling McKay
9. Pre-service Teachers and Active Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning: The Case of the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic; Zbynek Filipi and Lucie Rohlíková
10. Intercultural Talent Management Model and its Application as an Active Teaching and Learning Strategy: Pre-Service Teachers in a New Time and Space Dimension: Virtuality; Eileen Sepveda Valenzuela, Marcelo Careaga Butter and María Graciela Badilla-Quintana
11. Active Learning in Practice: Techniques and Experiences in Information Systems Courses in Brazil; Ronney Moreira de Castro, Sean W. M. Siqueira, César Augusto R. Bastos, Maria Cristina Pfeiffer Fernandes
12. Using Socrative App for Accounting Students in Higher Education; Inés González-González, Cristina Alcaide-Muñoz, and Ana Isabel Jimenez-Zarco
13. Enhancing Learner Autonomy and Active Learning Using Digital Portfolio; Linda Pospisilova
Section III: A Vision for Humanity Through Higher Education-á
14. Pedagogical Legacies of Dorothy Lee and Paulo Freire; Azril Bacal Roij
15. A New Vision for Higher Education: Lessons from Education for the Environment and Sustainability; Christina Marouli, Anastasia Misseyanni, Paraskevi Papadopoulou and Miltiadis Lytras
Published: 19th April 2018
ISBN: 9781787144880
Number Of Pages: 424
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 | Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice
Title: Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice
Author: Harry Brighouse and Michael McPherson
This book features a group of top-notch philosophers tackling some of the biggest questions in higher education: What role should the liberal arts have in a college education? Should colleges orient themselves to the educational demands of the business sector? What is the role of highly selective colleges in the public sphere? To what extent should they be subsidized directly, or indirectly, by the public? Should they simply teach students skills and academic knowledge, or should they play a role in shaping character, and if so to what end? Should highly selective colleges' admissions practices give an edge to racial minorities, or legacies, or poor students? How much should the public purse subsidize disadvantaged students attending such institutions?
These questions are fundamentally about moral and political values? questions of distributive justice and of what constitutes valuable education. Philosophers are trained to identify value considerations in great detail?indeed, often with more precision than is ever needed for practical purposes!?but most disagreements about policy and practice proceed with minimal attention to the values assumed on either side, and all sides can benefit from more clarity about exactly what moral values are at play. The philosophers here, then, address some of the fundamental questions underlying debates about higher education and in ways that are interesting and accessible to others.
ISBN: 9780226259482
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 4th May 2015
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 | Convergent Teaching
Convergent Teaching :
Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College
Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Nuemann
Amid the wide-ranging public debate about the future of higher education is a tension about the role of the faculty as instructors versus researchers and the role of teaching in the mission of a university. What is absent from that discourse is any clear understanding of what constitutes good teaching in college. In Convergent Teaching, masterful professors of education, Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann, make the case that American higher education must hold fast to its core mission of fostering learning and growth for all people.
Arguing that colleges and universities do this best through their teaching function, the book portrays teaching as a professional practice that teachers should actively hone. Drawing on rich research on KGÇô12 classroom teaching, the authors develop the novel idea of convergent teaching, an approach that attends simultaneously to what students are learning and the personal, social, and cultural contexts shaping this process. Convergent teaching, they write, spurs teachers to join students' cognitions with the students' emotions and identities as they learn. Offering new ways to think about how college teachers can support and advance their students' learning of core disciplinary ideas, Pallas and Neumann outline targeted actions that campus administrators, public policymakers, and foundation leaders can take to propel such efforts. Vivid examples of instructors enacting three key principles'targeting, surfacing, and navigating'help bring the idea of convergent teaching to life.
Full of research-based, practical ideas for better teaching and learning, Convergent Teaching presents numerous instances of successful campus-based initiatives. It also sets a bold agenda for disciplinary organizations, philanthropies, and the federal government to support teaching improvement. This book will challenge higher education students while motivating college administrators and faculty to enact change on their campuses.
248 Pages | Hardback
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 | Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education
Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education: Assessment for Knowing and Producing Quality Work
Edited by David Boud, Rola Ajjawi, Phillip Dawson, Joanna Tai
A key skill to be mastered by graduates today is the ability to assess the quality of their own work, and the work of others. This book demonstrates how the higher education system might move away from a culture of unhelpful grades and rigid marking schemes, to focus instead on forms of feedback and assessment that develop the critical skills of its students.
Tracing the historical and sociocultural development of evaluative judgement, and bringing together evidence and practice design from a range of disciplines, this book demystifies the concept of evaluative judgement and shows how it might be integrated and encouraged in a range of pedagogical contexts. Contributors develop various understandings of this often poorly understood concept and draw on their experience to showcase a toolbox of strategies including peer learning, self-regulated learning, self-assessment and the use of technologies.
A key text for those working with students in the higher education system, Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education will give readers the knowledge and confidence required to promote these much-needed skills when working with individual students and groups.
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 | Leading Colleges and Universities
Leading Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Higher Education Leaders
by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B Kauvar and E Gordon Gee
Today's college and university leaders face complex problems that test their political acumen as well as their judgment, intellect, empathy, and ability to plan and improvise. How do they thoughtfully and creatively rise to the challenge? In Leading Colleges and Universities, editors Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee bring together a host of presidents and other leaders in higher education who describe how they dealt with the issues.
Each contributor has been effective as a president or other significant leader in postsecondary education. In this book they share real-life examples and stories that illustrate how they have dealt with the challenges they encountered. Together they answer these and other core questions:• How do you manage college athletics, faculty, a governing board, donors, and a local community?• What do you need to know about crisis management and legal affairs?• When should you be outspoken in the media and when should you be quiet?
The book does not shy away from hot contemporary issues, tackling such controversial matters as free speech, Title IX, athletics, fraternities, student and faculty diversity, and board relations. Presidents and would-be presidents'as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education'will find much helpful guidance in this timely book.
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| 9781421424927 |
 | Learning Theory
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 | Managing Further Education
Author: Lumby G
"The incorporation of the further education sector in 1993 was followed by a period of extreme turbulence. Colleges plunged into the complex task of managing huge organizations while under pressure from cuts in funding and a steady expansion in the number and range of students. While financial scandals may have attracted attention, the success of the further education sector in continuing to provide a vital educational service for millions of people has been less recognized.
Despite the significant contribution of the sector to education and training, practitioners struggle to find adequate research evidence on which to base reflection and practice. They need material relevant to the specific situation of managers working within this very hybrid sector, part public sector education and part commercial organization, catering for an age and ability range greater than that of any other educational sector.
Based on a national survey of college managers, this book investigates how managers are responding to the challenge to increase the numbers and range of students and to improve learning and teaching. The author shows what it means to lead in a college and how the culture has evolved. Each chapter focuses on an aspect of management. The book concludes that 'learning enterprise' is an apt description of further education, a sector which has retained learning at its core and has learned to adopt an entrepreneurial spirit to shape its future.
Managing Further Education will be essential reading for professionals working in further education and all those interested in the management of this complex and vital part of educational provision."
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 | Rethinking Tertiary Education
Title: Rethinking Tertiary Education: Building on the work of Peter Noonan
Authors: Megan Lilly, Robert Pascoe
The current higher education system is flawed, so what needs to happen next?
The future of Australia as a post-industrial economy depends on how knowledge, skills and capabilities are learned and fostered. Every Australian will need to engage with the tertiary education system, both to acquire an initial qualification and to up-skill or re-skill over the course of their lives.
The time has come to address the divide between vocational and higher education and implement a reform agenda that has been in development over the last decade. This will involve reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework to give greater recognition to skills alongside knowledge, and enable the vocational and higher education sectors to design fit-for-purpose courses. It will also require reform of the pathways, partnerships, curriculum, funding and regulation and to provide the coherence, quality, navigability and relevance needed for students, providers and industry.
The central figure in the development of this policy agenda was Peter Noonan, professor of Tertiary Education at Victoria University, who sadly passed away in 2022 after forty years as Australia's leading tertiary education policy thinker and adviser to both sides of government.
ISBN: 9780522879964
Published on: 7 November 2023
Number of Pages: 272
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