12,103円 This book presents recent developments in the theory and application of latent variable models (LVMs) by some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Topics covered involve a range of LVM frameworks including item response theory, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, and latent ...

9,948円 What do we mean by the word ‘context’ in education and how does our context influence the way that we learn? What role can technology play in enhancing learning and what is the future of technology within learning? Re-Designing Learning Contexts seeks to re-dress the lack of attention that has tr...

11,772円 Quality assurance (QA) in open and distance learning (ODL) can be a contentious issue. Some argue that it should be judged by the same criteria and methods as face-to-face education, while others claim that it is so different in its organization, enrolments and operations that conventional QA mec...

5,473円 America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr ...

6,195円 This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California, coauthor...

1,326円 Insider’s guide for graduate study, including Researching programs, the Application process, and succeeding as a student. Includes 7 personal questions to ask, 12 month checklist before applying, 7 ways to get positively noticed as an applicant, deadly sins for applicants, what to do if denied or...

9,870円 Within the complex environment of higher education, administrators and faculty members face daunting challenges in their unique domains of institutional governance. Many of the greatest challenges arise from basic misunderstandings of authority and its limitations by administrators and faculty me...

1,493円 Educação, inclusão e acessibilidade são temas que se entrelaçam e movimentam o campo educacional. Esses debates, bastante difundidos na Educação Básica, ganham espaço crescente na Educação Superior, alimentados por políticas educacionais e programas governamentais. A ordem atual é explícita: “tod...

1,561円 Ainda que as questões que envolvam a educação sejam extremamente complexas, pois estão interligadas à totalidade do fenômeno social, foi com este intuito, de simplesmente pensar a educação, que este livro foi escrito. Pois é na simplicidade pensante que a totalidade complexa se desvela no apurame...

10,612円 Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation. Through a series of case ...

12,154円 This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers. T...

8,358円 Two histories of the University of Toronto have been published, one in 1906 and one in 1927. Since the latter volume appeared, no comprehensive history of the University has been published. Given the size of the University and the complexity of the task, this is not entirely surprising. But, afte...