Higher Education Books

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1. Being an Academic: The Realities of Practice in a Changing World

   By Joelle Fanghanel

   The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghannel explores concepts of what it means to be an ‘academic’ in the 21st century, focusing on academic work and the changing roles of academics in universities. The...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57371-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Digital Discourse: New Directions for Technology-Enhanced Learning

   By Denise Whitelock

   Written to promote e-learning excellence, Digital Discourse outlines and illustrates the effectiveness of computer mediated discourse in teaching and technology-enhanced learning courses. It offers a coherent and effective teaching approach through the use of digital discourses. This approach has...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-99022-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Educating Students with Autism: Evidence-Based Principles and Practices

   Edited by Dianne Zager, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Richard L. Simpson

   @text:This edited book is both a comprehensive resource for professionals serving children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a graduate-level text for preservice and inservice educators, psychologists, speech/language therapists and other clinicians. Its comprehensive topical...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87757-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58347-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education: Asian Perspectives

   Edited by Deane Neubauer

   The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit chagning social and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60869-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education: Renewing the role of the university professor

   By Bruce Macfarlane

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56082-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Organizational Theory in Higher Education

   By Kathleen Manning

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87467-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Developing and Validating Test Items

   By Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael Rodriguez, Steven M. Downing

   Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87605-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. E-Moderating: The Key to Online Teaching and Learning, 3rd Edition

   By Gilly Salmon

   The third edition of this best-selling text has been fully updated and addresses many technological changes that have taken place in the field of online learning since 2004. In this revision of e-moderating, Gilly Salmon maintains her sound reputation and delivers another consistent and classic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88174-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Evaluating the Effectiveness of e-learning: A Practical Guide

    By Rob Phillips, Carmel McNaught, Gregor Kennedy

    How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not? Written for educators who feel ill-prepared when required to evaluate e-learning initiatives, Evaluating the Effectiveness of...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-88194-4 | Paperback (Routledge)