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The Digital Scholar : How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice
While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effec…
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- -
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- 9781849666268
- Collation
- viii, 200p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 371.344 WEL d
Task design in mathematics education : an ICMI study 22
This open access book is the product of ICMI Study 22 Task Design in Mathematics Education. The study offers a state-of-the-art summary of relevant research and goes beyond that to develop new insights and new areas of knowledge and study about task design. The authors represent a wide range of countries and cultures and are leading researchers, teachers and designers. In particular, the author…
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- -
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- 9783319096292
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- xvii; 339 PG; ill.
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- New ICMI Study Series
- Call Number
- 370 TAS t
The voice of the century : the culture of Italian bel canto in Luisa Tetrazzi…
This innovative work considers the notion of bel canto and the manner in which this vibrant tradition lives in the records of Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), one of the most celebrated sopranos ever. Tetrazzini, whose discographic career includes about 120 recordings, belongs to that generation of inspirational performers who heralded the dawn of a new era of music appreciation, alongside such ic…
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- -
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- 9781800643352
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- xviii, 210p.
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- -
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- MT845 ZIC t
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
Indirect education : exploring indirectness in teaching and research
Indirect Education discusses direct and indirect pedagogies and the complexities of these concepts within the field of education practice and research. It addresses the question of when it is most beneficial to be indirect with regard to teaching and educational research. The book offers an original approach to education in how it reasserts our right to a sense of ownership and agency in educat…
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- 9781003193463
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- IX, 129 p.
- Series Title
- Theorizing Education
- Call Number
- 371.102 SAE i
New approaches to the study of esotericism
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its r…
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- 9789004446458
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- VIII, 255 p.
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- Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 17
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- 130 NEW n
Louis Agassiz as a teacher : illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation. The enthusiasm of their accounts is contagious. This collection of illustrative extracts on the …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501740589
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- IX, 74 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 371.3 COO l
Music learning with massive open online courses (MOOCs)
"Massive Open Online Courses, known as MOOCs, have arisen as the logical consequence of marrying long-distance education with the web and social media. MOOCs were confidently predicted by advanced thinkers decades ago. They are undoubtedly here to stay, and provide a valuable resource for learners and teachers alike.This book focuses on music as a domain of knowledge, and has three objectives: …
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- 9781614995937
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- XII, 252 p.
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- -
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- 780.71 MUS m
Early geometrical thinking in the environment of patterns, mosaics and isomet…
This survey confirms that one of the research trends in early geometrical reasoning has been a focus on creating a theoretical basis for research in this area. The main reason for the work on the theoretical foundations has been the fact that building geometrical concepts proceeds according to other regularities more than it takes place while building arithmetic knowledge. In this way, a broad …
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- 1st ed.
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- 9783319442716
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- vii, 50 p. 42 illus.online resource.
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- -
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- 370 SWO e
Constructivist blended learning approach : to teaching English for specific p…
This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their own knowledge and professional communication skills in English by making extensive use of Internet sites in English, combining traditional in-class learning with in- and out-…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788376560014
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- VII, 256 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 410 TAR c
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