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Peer review in an Era of Evaluation : Understanding the Practice of Gatekeepi…
This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contribut…
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- -
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- 9783030752637
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- 412 p ; ill
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- 001.4 PEE E
Social media in higher education : case studies, reflections and analysis
"How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to enhance teaching and learning, research, profes…
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- 7
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- 9781783746705
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- xix, 279 p.: illus
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- -
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- 378.17344678 CHR s
The research university in today's society
In this topical lecture, investor and philanthropist Gerald Chan examines the role of philanthropy in the rapidly changing higher education environment. He proposes that society will be short-changed if the purpose of universities is seen as human resource rather than humanity. Dr Chan argues that the independence of universities is crucial for maintaining the balance between their dual role as…
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- 9781911307600
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- 28p. : ill.
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- -
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- 371.206 CHA r
A global history of research education : disciplines, institutions, and natio…
This book’s chapters contain a mix of analysis and discussion looking in depth at the history of higher education. This text presents a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters cover topics such as how disciplines are formed and research training, the rise of academic laboratory science, research mathematicians circa 1900 and research training i…
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- 9780192844774
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- IX, 387 p.
- Series Title
- History of Universities
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- 378.009 GLO g
Artificial intelligence in the Capitalist University : academic labour, commo…
Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced examination of the impacts of AI on the control and regulation of academic work and l…
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- 9781003081654
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- VII, 173 p.
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism,
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- 378.17344678 PRE a
Being a presence for students : teaching as a lived defense of liberal education
This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed on…
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- 9781643150086
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- VIII, 135 p.
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- -
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- 370.112 FRA b
Like nobody's business: an insider's guide to how US University finances rea…
"How do university finances really work? From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts colleges, there are few aspects of these institutions associated with more confusion, myths or lack of understanding than how they fund themselves and function in the business of higher education. Using simple, approachable explanations supported by clear illustrations, this book t…
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- 9781800641099
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- xi, 471 pages (1 online resource) : charts (color)
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- -
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- 378.38 COM l
The university revolution : outline of a processual theory of modern higher e…
Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for decades. By revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book recognizes these developments as having been as central to constituting t…
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- -
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- 9781351017558
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- X, 203 p.
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- Classical and Contemporary Social Theory,
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- 378 LYB u
The scholar as human : research and teaching for public impact
The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies—to focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place i…
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- 9781501750632
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- VI, 265 p.
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- -
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- 378.103 SCH s
Humboldt and the modern German university : an intellectual history
This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the transformation of the Humboldtian tradition gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the study investigates the ways in which Humboldt’s ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in d…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789198376814
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- XVI, 292 p.
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- -
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- 378.43 OST h
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