Higher Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching

   A Beginner's Guide

   Edited by Nicola Whitton, Alex Moseley

   Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching provides educators with easy and practical ways of using games to support student engagement and learning. Despite growing interest in digital game-based learning and teaching, until now most teachers have lacked the resources or technical knowledge to...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

   Edited by Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Merit Aid and the Politics of Education

   By Erik C. Ness

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment

   Theory and practice in higher education

   Edited by Lynn Clouder, Christine Broughan, Steve Jewell, Graham Steventon

   With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed. Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized,...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Changing Spaces of Education

   New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

   Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

   In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners

   Edited by Maria Slowey, Hans Schuetze

   The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. University Teaching

   An introductory guide

   By Tony Harland

   University Teaching: An Introductory Guide is a vital tool for the new lecturer that aims to encourage and support an inquiry into university teaching and academic life. This book understands that teaching is not discrete but one of many activities integrated in academic work. It recognizes that...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Pathways to Academic Success in Higher Education

   Expanding Opportunity for Underrepresented Students

   By Edward P. St. John, Glenda Droogsma Musoba

   Pathways to Academic Success in Higher Education examines two major challenges facing the nation. The first is preparing high school students for college, a reform that has been tackled largely through state policy initiatives. The second is creating new pathways to academic success for...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. International Assistance and State-University Relations

   By Jo Bastiaens

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. Focusing on the case study of Indonesia, Bastiaens demonstrates how international aid...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Embracing Non-Tenure Track Faculty

    Changing Campuses for the New Faculty Majority

    Edited by Adrianna Kezar

    The nature of the higher education faculty workforce is radically and fundamentally changing from primarily full-time tenured faculty to non-tenure track faculty. This new faculty majority faces common challenges, including short-term contracts, limited support on campus, and lack of a professional...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge