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Author: Michael G. Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 0415897645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides overviews and summaries of the research and practice of distance education in the USA. It addresses such questions as how distance education is best practised at the level of the teacher, as well as the administrator.
Author: Gray Rinehart
Publisher: Stormwatch
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780998209203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated and completely restructured edition! Originally one of the first book-length treatments of continual improvement principles applied to organizing and operating the educational system. With special emphasis on the quality philosophy of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the text adapts Deming's systems flowchart, Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, and "14 Points" to the problems and processes of education. Presents education as a transformative process and covers expectations, roles, and inhibiting factors for parents, students, teachers, and administrators. Examines education's customers, differing definitions of quality with respect to education, and the failure of well-intentioned reform efforts such as the "National Education Goals" (also known as "Goals 2000") of the late 1980s. Includes chapters on programs for gifted and talented students, values education, and curriculum and other standards. Presents strategy ideas and discusses leadership required to develop and sustain quality education.
Author: Taguma Miho
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9264176691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in New Zealand.
Author: Stephen J. Fallows
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415335218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text provides advice on how to ensure educational quality is maintained when ICT approaches are successfully adopted. It includes contributions from authors around the world who scrutinize the implications for using institution-wide ICT in teaching strategy.
Author: Fernando D. Rubio-Alcalá
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1788923715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The chapters cover themes such as language policy, quality assurance tools and indicators of quality and the authors approach issues of quality from very different and complementary perspectives, adopting for example, temporal, evaluative and developmental positioning, and taking micro, meso and macro level perspectives, while still keeping sight of the local realities, practices and possibilities. The contributions are written by authors working in Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK and have implications for researchers, education coordinators, practitioners and other stakeholders who are looking to design, launch and evaluate new programmes in any higher education context worldwide.
Author: Ron Berger
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781683625629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRon Berger writes about the importance of comprehensive school culture in effective schools that shepherd students to success. This slim book is frequently used as a common read to provide inspiration and provocation to school communities.
Author: Taguma Miho
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2013-01-02
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9264176713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in Norway.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 030913319X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Author: John Brennan
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781853024238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study addresses debates on academic standards and quality assurance from the perspectives of institutional leaders, national quality bodies and higher education researchers. It includes the results of studies of the impact of external quality assurance upon management and decision making.
Author: Richard Arum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1119268508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious, comprehensive reimagining of 21st century higher education Improving Quality in American Higher Education outlines the fundamental concepts and competencies society demands from today's college graduates, and provides a vision of the future for students, faculty, and administrators. Based on a national, multidisciplinary effort to define and measure learning outcomes—the Measuring College Learning project—this book identifies 'essential concepts and competencies' for six disciplines. These essential concepts and competencies represent efforts towards articulating a consensus among faculty in biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology—disciplines that account for nearly 40 percent of undergraduate majors in the United States. Contributions from thought leaders in higher education, including Ira Katznelson, George Kuh, and Carol Geary Schneider, offer expert perspectives and persuasive arguments for the need for greater clarity, intentionality, and quality in U.S. higher education. College faculty are our best resource for improving the quality of undergraduate education. This book offers a path forward based on faculty perspectives nationwide: Clarify program structure and aims Articulate high-quality learning goals Rigorously measure student progress Prioritize higher order competencies and disciplinarily grounded conceptual understandings A culmination of over two years of efforts by faculty and association leaders from six disciplines, this book distills the national conversation into a delineated set of fundamental ideas and practices, and advocates for the development and use of rigorous assessment tools that are valued by faculty, students, and society. Improving Quality in American Higher Education brings faculty voices to the fore of the conversation and offers an insightful look at the state of higher education, and a realistic strategy for better serving our students.
