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Towards excellence in engineering education
Acquiring knowledge is a life-long process; we constantly need to keep abreast of developments and progress in science and other disciplines. Embracing a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) means practicing constant self-reflection, involving evaluation of the academic career and the ways in which strategies are designed to examine, interpret, and share learning about teaching. This pra…
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- 9783039212521
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- IX, 162 p.
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- 620.005 TOW t
Health promotion at school : pedagogical aspects and practical implications
For decades the health of children and adolescents has been a topic of interest in all parts of Europe. And there is quite a consensus that schools are the most appropriate setting to promote health. Childhood and adolescence constitute key stages for learning and adopting a health-related and active lifestyle which includes physical activity and sports. The book describes a new approach to enh…
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- 9783110539646
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- ix, 152p. : ill.
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- 613.071094 HEA h
International handbook of health literacy : research, practice and policy acr…
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promo…
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- 9781447344537
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- xxiv, 740p. : ill.
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- 610 INT i
Internet and mobile phone addiction : health and educational effects
Internet use-related addiction problems (e.g., Internet addiction, problem mobile phone use, problem gaming, and social networking) have been defined according to the same core element: the addictive symptomatology presented by individuals who excessively and problematically behave using the technology. Online activity is the most important factor in their lives, causing them the loss of contro…
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- 9783038976042
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- xii, 311p. : ill.
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- 616.8584 INT i
Perspectives for the Next Generation of Virus Research: Spearheading the Use …
Infectious diseases are associated with approximately 20% of global mortality, with viral diseases causing about one third of these deaths. Besides newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections will continue to pose a threat to human survival globally. In this case scientific advances have greatly been increased to defend against those pathogens. For example, rapid genomic sequencing, proteom…
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- 9782889452156
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- 192p.: ill.
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- 616.01 YAM p
Young people, social media and health
The pervasiveness of social media in young people’s lives is widely acknowledged, yet there is little evidence-based understanding of the impacts of social media on young people’s health and wellbeing. Young People, Social Media and Health draws on novel research to understand, explain, and illustrate young people’s experiences of engagement with health-related social media; as well as…
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- 9781351026987
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- xvii, 231p. : ill.
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- 610.2850835 YOU y
Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected
How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters.Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of videogame technologies to create films to the effect of home digital media on family life. This …
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- 9780262633598
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- 269p. : ill.
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- 600 DIG d
Education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of eco…
This book presents an overview of the main research findings and case studies concerning education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies. Focusing on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam, it discusses government and business sector responses to these issues and how Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems and institutions are address…
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- 9789811065590
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- 198 p.
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- 658.514 MAC e
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