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Learning/work
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Linda Cooper |
"We are living through a daunting yet fascinating period in which the global economy increasingly challenges the accepted dichotomies between home-life and work-life, between employment and unemploym… |
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Rankings and the reshaping of higher education
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Ellen Hazelkorn |
"University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, ma… |
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Educating for the knowledge economy?
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Hugh Lauder,Michael F. D. Young,Harry Daniels,Lowe, John,Maria Balarin |
"The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creativ… |
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Knowledge matters
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Craig J. Calhoun,Diana Rhoten |
Universities Are Changing Around The World. In China and Africa there is massive expansion, while many of America's greatest public universities are experiencing major budget cuts. In Latin America u… |
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Making the university matter
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Barbie Zelizer |
"Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting. The univer… |
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Policy debates in comparative, international, and development education
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John N. Hawkins,W. James Jacob |
"The complementary areas of comparative, international and development education occupy a critical part of the landscape in educational policy debates in a global context. This volume brings together… |
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Education in a digital world
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Neil Selwyn |
"The book takes a comprehensive look at digital technology use in educational settings around the world. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, the book tackles a number of pressing q… |
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The one world schoolhouse
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Salman Khan |
"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was strug… |
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Trends shaping education
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
This publication presents the latest available information on 26 major current trends in education, grouped in 9 broad themes (aging, global challenges, the new economic landscape, work and jobs, the… |
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Adult learning
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Sharan B. Merriam |
"Solidly grounded in theory and research, but concise and practice-oriented, Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice is perfect for graduate students and practitioners alike. The expert authors h… |
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International Students and Global Mobility in Higher Education
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Rajika Bhandari |
xvi, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
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Educación 3.0
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Gabriel Sánchez Zinny |
With the shifting nature of the global economy, education quality is more important than ever. Both personal success and national competitiveness increasingly depend on what is known as "21st century… |
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