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"Despite both positive and negative perceptions of the current state of higher education, the contemporary debate over what it is to be a university is limited. Most of all, it is limited imaginatively. The range of imagined options is narrow. The imagination has not been given anything even approaching a wide scope. As a result, our sense as to what a university could be and could become in the modern age is itself impoverished. If we are seriously...
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"This book harnesses what we have learned from innovations in teaching, neuroscience, experiential learning, and studies on mindfulness and personal development, to transform how we deliver and create new knowledge, and indeed transform our students, developing their capacities for adaptive boundary spanning"--Page 4 of cover.
"Is higher education preparing our students for a world that is increasingly complex and volatile, and in which they will...
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"Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice explores the opportunities and challenges of moving the discussion about open educational resources (OER) beyond affordability to address structural inequities found throughout academia and scholarly publishing. OER have the potential to celebrate research done by marginalized populations in the context of their own communities, to amplify the voices of those who have the knowledge but have...
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"This optimistic big-idea book about the philosophy and organization of higher education explains how universities can form creative, adaptive, and integrative graduates who are ready to take on the complex, systemic problems of the contemporary world. The author argues against those who propose to unbundle higher education institutions into discrete providers of goods and services who aim to prepare students for existing professions"
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"Contentious debates over the benefits-or drawbacks-of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism-often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student's capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this...
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"What is the purpose of education? Though many now recognize the need for reform in our universities, few have taken the trouble to engage this crucial question. And it is even rarer to find an administrator or dean who can articulate a persuasive answer that withstands scrutiny." "In this critique, Hugh Mercer Curtler argues that the purpose of education - enabling students to achieve intellectual autonomy, and thus true freedom - has been forgotten....
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"This monograph aims to uncover value-belief-systems underlying dominant narratives in modern IHEs, impacting the lives of many multidimensional adult learners. To do so, Eurocentrism and neoliberalism are used to analyze the socio-cultural-political movements of the U.S. and its influence on higher education trends. Then, models of adult consciousness and transformative approaches to adult learning are introduced to problematize dominant narratives...
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"Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As wellsprings of innovation and ideas, these institutions represent the core of society's research enterprise. This book contends that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but as fundamental institutions of democracy."--Jacket.
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"Drawing on her extensive experience in leading community colleges, Judith S. Eaton shows how these colleges can best serve the needs of today's diverse student population by providing rigorous, high-quality, college-level education." "Eaton details the key factors that have caused community colleges to shift from crucial sites of higher education opportunity to ambiguous centers of quasi-educational programs and services. Examining curriculum, access,...
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"The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties....
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"At the intersection of learning, technology, design, and organizational change in higher education lies the foundation of a new academic discipline of "digital learning." Coalescing around this new field of study is a set of common theoretical frameworks, methodological practices, and language, and a shared set of challenges and goals. This book seeks to explore the context of this new academic discipline, show how this new field exists within a...
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"50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning? Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? Gather information that can help make grading more systematic and streamlined? Efficiently collect solid learning outcomes data for institutional assessment? Provide evidence of your teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure review?...
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