This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of performance assessment for learning to the next level. In order to be better equipped to cope with increasing complexity, change and diversity in professional education and performance assessment, administrators and educators will engage in crucial systems thinking. The main question discussed by...

Based on a survey of some 2000 European Studies courses, this book maps and analyses teaching methodologies, and offers case studies on simulation games, e-learning, problem based learning, blended learning, and learning through the use of social networks.

This book examines the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the concept, philosophy, principles, practical implementation and first-hand experiences of this global work-integrated learning strategy.

This book analyses the development of hospitality education from vocational to higher education, and discusses the positioning of hotel schools.