For online programs to succeed, institutions must support course design, communication, and students. This volume investigates these issues and will interest practitioners of online teaching, design, and administration of successful online programs.
Dyslexia and Creativity
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
This book examines administrative bloat, a major contributor to rising college costs. It details the unsustainable growth of nonessential university personnel through case studies on student success initiatives, technology transfer offices, and distance learning.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
This book highlights international media education research, topical findings, and educational practices. It explores the use of digital skills from school to higher education and beyond, providing insights for researchers, teachers, and policymakers promoting media education.
Becoming an Academy School in the UK
This book tells the story of Manchester Academy, a major success of the City Academies policy. It explores how the original vision was realised in a challenging community and provides compelling proof that a learner’s identity does not have to be their destiny.
Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context
This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict country of Timor-Leste. It conveys the ‘lived experience’ of school leaders, describing the realities of their work and the strategies they adopt to overcome daily challenges.
Small colleges are at risk. To survive, they must pivot their mission to weave deeper into the communities in which they reside. This book shows how these institutions can take direct action to make a bigger impact, draw more students, and breathe lifeblood into middle America.
Communication and Interculturality in Higher Education
This book is an academic adventure addressing communication and interculturality in higher education. It unpacks the barriers to intercultural encounters and shows how institutions of higher learning can be a vehicle for building intercultural awareness and competence.
Change Agents at Work
This book investigates the change agent role, examining the skills they bring and how they develop over time. It provides crucial insights for agencies responsible for hiring and supporting change agents, helping them craft job postings and design effective support structures.
Drawing on over 43 years of experience, this book compiles the author’s extensive work on medical education. Replete with anecdotes, personal experiences, and the lessons learnt, it provides guidance to trainers and trainees tasked with training tomorrow’s health professionals.
Teaching across the Curriculum
As many young people in Africa now perceive education as not useful, teachers must adjust their methods. This book will help teachers and lecturers be dynamic, efficient, and effective. Written by experienced scholars, it has been peer-reviewed by eminent academics.
This book explores Jesuit Father François Annat, Royal Confessor to Louis XIV. His career was defined by the Jansenist controversy, a fierce internal struggle within the French Church that pitted him against his celebrated foe: the writer Blaise Pascal.
The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
Theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich believed that to fully live, one must do so on the boundary. This book applies his work to pedagogy, demonstrating how a “Tillichian” approach can diminish students’ existential anxieties and prepare them to live in the modern world.
This book offers ideas for developing creative and critical thinking, strategic writing, and effective interpersonal skills. It presents strategies to foster cultural diversity and collaboration, cultivating the transformation of a student into a 21st century leader.
Transforming Education in India
This book provides deep insights into Indian education. It examines education at all levels, exploring recent challenges and government initiatives to improve teaching and learning. A good source of knowledge for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators.
Social enterprise is a crucial feature of higher education, connecting the public, private and voluntary sectors. This volume provides a joined-up approach, examining theoretical approaches and offering best practice examples for teaching and learning in the social sciences.
This book offers strategies for developing the online classroom into a deep learning community. Anchored in educational theory, it shows how a strong sense of community ownership enhances students’ ability to master content through shared authority, voice, and peer connection.
Teaching and Learning at the University
This book analyzes transformative changes in university teaching and learning through case studies of Estonian, Swedish and Finnish universities. It explores how organisation-wide changes affect teaching practice, professional identities, and academic career paths.