Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Administration - General

This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. It also examines the social nature of gaming such as techniques for driver/navigator partners, small groups, and whole class structures to help make thinking visible; it expands the traditional design process teachers engage in by encouraging use of video game design techniques such as playtesting. The author emphasizes designing curricular games...

Das Buch stellt deutsche und US-amerikanische Erfahrungen mit Community-based Research (CBR) dar und bietet Leitfaden, Tipps und Hinweise zur Durchfuhrung an. Beispiele durchgefuhrter Projekte u.a. in der Medieninformatik, im Medizinmanagement und der Lehrerbildung erganzen die Grundlagen, schaffen ein plastisches Bild und bieten Anregungen zur Entwicklung eigener Manahmen an den Schnittstellen von Universitat und Gemeinwesen. Fur Hochschulen, die gesellschaftliches Engagement auch forschungsbezogen umsetzen wollen, ist CBR eine ideale Erganzung zu Service Learning, indem es universitares...

Is pursuit of the doctorate the ultimate intellectual “survival of the fittest” challenge? Are there common characteristics and experiences that result in success while earning the PhD? Can examining the experiences of individuals successful in pursuing the doctorate lead us towards learning how to increase success rates and decrease doctoral attrition?

The intent of this work is to address these questions and highlight the experiences of those who have earned or are in pursuit of the doctorate. Through learning from the varied experiences of those who have earned or...

Written to accompany the second edition DVD of Todd Whitaker's best-selling title, What Great Teachers Do Differently, this facilitator's guide is a practical resource for teacher workshops, study groups, PLCs, and school improvement teams. It features thoughtful discussion questions to help educators reflect on and apply the concepts from the DVD to their own schools or classrooms.

This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues. We are in a constant state of flux and higher education needs to respond in more proactive, intentional and innovative ways to remain a relevant cornerstone to society and culture. The editors begin by asking how our collective reality might change if the complexity and uncertainty surrounding us were embraced and leveraged to serve the learner and society as a whole. They invite the reader to explore collaborative approaches...

In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvement of state agencies in the supervision, financing and organization of the school system sometimes varies so much that the usual assumption of a common understanding of the state seems to be an illusion.

Making international comparisons and focusing strongly on the historical conditions of the current form of...

The promise of online learning--flexible, learner-centered, responsive--was forward-looking and poised to revolutionize education. But too often online learning courses have little room for student engagement and their design does not reflect the potential for interactive and collaborative learning.

Design Alchemy counters this trend by synthesizing the art and science of educational design to model a whole that transcends the sum of its parts. Challenging yet accessible,

it clearly sets out steps for harnessing innovative strategies and designer creativity to provide...