The Emerald Handbook of Higher Education in a Post-Covid World
The Emerald Handbook of Higher Education in a Post-Covid World

Author: Byron A. Brown

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1803821957

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Providing perspectives across multiple nations and settings, this volume is essential reading for higher education staff, researchers, and policy makers, to ensure higher education across the world is prepared to offer the best quality teaching and learning in the Covid and Post-Covid world.

Untethering Educational Leadership
Untethering Educational Leadership

Author: Chenwei Ma

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-20

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1040000703

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Lingdao, the Chinese word for leadership, is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However, the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions. Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy, the book explores how "Western" understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive media for social change. It also offers a new understanding of lingdao and leadership; how they represent a natural human desire, regardless of formal rank or position, to mobilize collective will, change minds, and achieve social change. The book will be of interest to professional scholars and graduate students of Chinese culture, educational leadership, mass media, and popular culture.

Second-language Discourse in the Digital World
Second-language Discourse in the Digital World

Author: Ilona Vandergriff

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9027266700

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Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With its rich set of examples from a number of different languages and a variety of digital platforms, in and beyond the classroom, this book provides a structured account of L2 computer-mediated discourse. The book is divided into four sections. Section I considers how new media have changed language learning. Section II is about L2 participation in digital forms and practices in online communities. Sections III centers around L2 linguistic and other semiotic practices, including the use of multimodal and multilingual resources while section IV analyzes social practices to explore how networked L2 users build, maintain and challenge relationships. Written in accessible style, the volume will be an important read to anyone interested in L2 use and learning in Web 2.0.Finalist for the AAAL 2019 book award.

Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas
Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas

Author: Gary Wood

Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1763563103

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Ever since he was a young man living on the Gold Coast, Gary had dreamed of riding a motor-cycle around Australia. His focus on family, qualifications, career and mortgage conspired to push this dream out of his mind. Life had stopped being fun and he could see that it wouldn’t get better unless he changed his thinking. Then one night while lying in his hammock, sipping red wine, and listening to music, a song from his past came over the speaker. It was a message from his younger self reminding him of his dreams. He made a goal, got a motorcycle and some camping gear, and within two years he was on a solo motorcycle adventure through Queensland. This book is more than a motorcycle travel story, it’s an adventure through the heart of Queensland and the soul of Australia. Along the way, Gary learns the secret of life, loses his money by betting on chickens and solves the murder of the swaggie from the song Waltzing Matilda. His message to the reader is that it’s never too late to set and achieve goals. If he can do it anyone can, and it’s easier than you think. Just twist the throttle and look out for kangaroos.

Technology and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges
Technology and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges

Author: Inoue, Yukiko

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1599043181

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"This book examines current and effective educational practices as well as new challenges involving emerging technologies in increasingly diverse learning environments in higher educationand the impact of the explosion of technology. These challenges are well documented in this collection of essays, case studies, and research reports"--Provided by publisher.

Machine Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Machine Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Author: Management Association, Information Resources

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2011-07-31

Total Pages: 2174

ISBN-13: 1609608194

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"This reference offers a wide-ranging selection of key research in a complex field of study,discussing topics ranging from using machine learning to improve the effectiveness of agents and multi-agent systems to developing machine learning software for high frequency trading in financial markets"--Provided by publishe