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Challenges and Opportunities in Global Approaches to Education

Author : Neimann, Theresa D.

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 43,6 MB

Release : 2019-09-27

Category : Education

ISBN : 1522597778

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In order to develop student competencies in K-12 and Higher Education environments, evidence-based tools and concepts are essential in ensuring the development of student skills and proficiencies. Evidence-based pedagogical practices leading to student learning preferences culturally and internationally are essential to educational success. Challenges and Opportunities in Global Approaches to Education is an essential research publication that provides evidence-based tools and concepts to develop student competencies in the K-20 environment. Chapters in the monograph cover topics in a theoretical context such as how technology, online learning, and culture inform evidence-based development of student competencies. This book is essential for curriculum teachers, designers, instructional designers, administrators, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in different types of educational communities and environments.



Educating for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges

Author : Conrad Hughes

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 17,63 MB

Release : 2018-07-26

Category : Education

ISBN : 9004381031

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Educating for the Twenty-First Century is an engaging account of some of the most critical challenges for humanity, seen through the unique perspective of a school principal. A virtuoso performance of great imaginative force, the book takes the reader through philosophical reflections, humorous anecdotes, syntheses of cutting-edge research and examples of best practice, to answer fundamental questions about education and learning in the 21st century. Provocative, touching, accessible, but always profound, the book is a must-read for policy-makers, school and university leaders, parents and anyone passionate about education and the future of the planet. "A significant book, which makes it required reading for educators, public policy experts, indeed every thoughtful citizen of our time." - AC Grayling, Philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities "An essential book for all those who are interested in the future of their children, in other words, the very future of humanity." - Luc Ferry, Philosopher and former Minister of Education, France



Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies

Author : Lydiah Nganga

Publisher : Global Studies in Education

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,70 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Globalization

ISBN : 9781433121296

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This book explores real global issues in the classroom and also offers different innovative instructional strategies that educators have employed while teaching social studies courses. Indeed, this volume is a critical tool to help educators and students to gain a better understanding of globalization and global education.



Challenges in Global Learning

Author : Peter Kell

Publisher :

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 20,48 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Education and globalization

ISBN : 9781443899802

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This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing issues which currently shape global education. The discussions here are constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education. Together, they form a more rounded framework for approaching and evaluating educational changes and developments. The collection is made up of collaborative research that emerged between researchers and Masters coursework students in the Department of Education at Charles Darwin University, Australia. The original approach this collaboration of research adopted was developed in response to the challenges currently being experienced by higher education institutions both in Australia and around the world, which are now redesigning research and coursework programmes to address the quality of the services that they provide. This book will appeal to educators, researchers and postgraduate students.



European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade

Author : Adrian Curaj

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 627 pages

File Size : 22,93 MB

Release : 2020-11-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 3030563162

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This open access book presents the major outcomes of the fourth edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 4) which was held in January 2020 and which has already established itself as a landmark in the European higher education environment. The conference is part of the official calendar of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for events that promote and sustain the development of EHEA. The conference provides a unique forum for dialogue between researchers, experts and policy makers in the field of higher education, all of which is documented in this proceedings volume. The book focuses on the following five sub-themes: - Furthering the Internationalization of Higher Education: Particular - Challenges in the EHEA - Access and Success for Every Learner in Higher Education - Advancing Learning and Teaching in the EHEA: Innovation and Links With Research - The Future of the EHEA - Principles, Challenges and Ways Forward - Bologna Process in the Global Higher Education Arena. Going Digital? While acknowledging the efforts and achievements so far at EHEA level, the Paris Ministerial Communiqué highlights the need to intensify crossdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation. One of the ways to achieve this objective is to develop more efficient peer-learning activities, involving policymakers and other stakeholders from as many member states as possible for which this book provides a platform. It acknowledges the importance of a continued dialogue between researchers and decisionmakers and benefits from the experience already acquired, this way enabling the higher education community to bring its input into the 2020. European Higher Education Area (EHEA) priorities for 2020 onwards. European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade marks 21 years of Bologna Process and 10 years of EHEA and brings together an unique collection of contributions that not only reflect on all that has been achieved in these years, but more importantly, shape directions for the future. This book is published under an open access CC BY license.



E-collaboration Technologies and Strategies for Competitive Advantage Amid Challenging Times

Author : Jingyuan Zhao

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 26,76 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Information technology

ISBN : 9781799877653

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"The book is focused on e-collaboration technologies, strategies and solutions for organizational competitive advantage and assesses the importance of E-collaboration technologies, strategies and solutions in dealing with emerging crisis such as unpredicted pandemic diseases like COVID -19"--



Challenges and Opportunities of Online Learning

Author : Ditte Kolbæk

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,71 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Education

ISBN : 9781536194869

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"The COVID-19 pandemic has sent students and teachers home, and during the last several months they have learned to study and teach online. Hence, e-learning has become a hot issue and provides the theme for this book entitled Challenges and Opportunities of Online Learning. The aim of this book is to link theoretical approaches with practical experiences and inspire teachers, students, and researchers in the field of e-learning in higher education. By reading this book, teachers in higher education may learn lessons from colleagues' experience that may enable them to dare trying out new ways of e-learning. This book includes contributions from four continents - the USA, South America, Africa and Europe - and the authors detail technical considerations as well as provide the different perspectives on e-learning of faculty, teachers, and students"--



Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming From STEM to STEAM Education

Author : Thomas, Kelli

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 11,5 MB

Release : 2020-01-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 1799825191

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The addition of the arts to STEM education, now known as STEAM, adds a new dimension to problem-solving within those fields, offering students tools such as imagination and resourcefulness to incorporate into their designs. However, the shift from STEM to STEAM has changed what it means for students to learn within and across these disciplines. Redesigning curricula to include the arts is the next step in preparing students throughout all levels of education. Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming From STEM to STEAM Education is a pivotal reference source that examines the challenges and opportunities presented in redesigning STEM education to include creativity, innovation, and design from the arts including new approaches to STEAM and their practical applications in the classroom. While highlighting topics including curriculum design, teacher preparation, and PreK-20 education, this book is ideally designed for teachers, curriculum developers, instructional designers, deans, museum educators, policymakers, administrators, researchers, academicians, and students.



Radical Solutions and Open Science

Author : Daniel Burgos

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 199 pages

File Size : 26,96 MB

Release : 2020-05-14

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811542767

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This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major players in the field; experts that present the current state of the art and the forthcoming steps towards a useful and effective implementation. This book presents radical, transgenic solutions for recurrent and long-standing problems in Higher Education. Every chapter presents a clear view and a related solution to make Higher Education progress and implement tools and strategies to improve the user’s performance and learning experience. This book is part of a trilogy with companion volumes on Radical Solutions & Learning Analytics and Radical Solutions & eLearning.



Internationalisation of Higher Education and Global Mobility

Author : Bernhard Streitwieser

Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 49,82 MB

Release : 2014-05-12

Category : Education

ISBN : 1873927428

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Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges, and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education who share their analysis of current trends and the implications they see for present and future policy and practice. The volume is organized into three sections that address, first, global, supranational concerns in internationalization and mobility; second, focus on specific cases in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and third share profiles of individual institutions, practitioners and participants involved in uniquely shaping international education in their everyday practice. The intention of this book is to expand the scope of research in the field of Comparative and International Education, to facilitate theory development, to influence policy formation, and most of all to inform anyone fascinated by the evolving and dynamic processes related to educational internationalization and global mobility. This book will be a valuable information source for scholars, policy makers and students intent on understanding the wide scope of factors that today are shaping the fluid and changing global higher education landscape.