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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in e-Learning Environments: Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies examines new research on how online and blended learning technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an era of increasing technological convergence and dependence. These enabling technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. Through case studies, surveys, and literature reviews, this volume will examine online and blended technologies are being used to improve academic literacies in students, to create engaging communities of practice, and how these technologies are being used to improve learner motivation and self-empowered learners. This volume will also discuss a framework for adopting and deploying these technologies.

Computer-assisted instruction. --- Education --- Education and state. --- Educational change. --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- CAI (Computer-assisted instruction) --- Computer-aided instruction --- Computer-assisted learning --- Computer based instruction --- Computer-enhanced learning --- Electronic data processing in programmed instruction --- ILSs (Integrated learning systems) --- Integrated learning systems --- Microcomputer-aided instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted learning --- Microcomputer-based instruction --- Teaching --- Government policy --- Data processing --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Technological innovations --- Educational technology --- Programmed instruction --- Telematics --- Teachers' classroom resources & material. --- Educational: IT & computing, ICT. --- Computers & Technology. --- Distance Education & Learning.

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This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also university-school (basic education) collaborative partnerships to improve local school systems. The increasing pressures to remove access and participation barriers, and to mitigate practices that restrict the free flow of education across borders, have created a growing global space for educational services of all types. As a result, traditional institutional boundaries have expanded to better respond to the increasing pressures placed on them by the growing demand for higher education services. The boundaries between educational institutions and other entities such as government, business, and non-profit organizations have become more fluid which has resulted in increased involvement by institutions, faculty, and students in activities outside the traditional boundaries of the classroom. This edited volume will specifically explore university partnerships for community and school system development.

Community and college. --- Community and school. --- Universities and colleges --- Education and state. --- Public services. --- Public relations. --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Public relations --- Public services offered by universities and colleges --- Services offered by universities and colleges to the public --- School and community --- College and community --- Town and gown --- University and community --- Government policy --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Community and college --- Schools --- Parents' and teachers' associations --- University towns --- Higher & further education, tertiary education. --- Higher.

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This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities. The first part of the volume addresses the challenges of educating and integrating refugee populations, while the second part considers methods for establishing support systems. Using case studies and other empirical research, this volume presents a broad and in-depth overview of the various methods implemented to integrate the refugees into society.The international case studies revealthe complexity of the perception-practice dynamic and the multi-faceted factors that influence various levels of integration.

Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Education. --- Social conditions. --- Education --- Multicultural education. --- Multicultural Education.

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Although academic freedom in teaching and learning methods is crucial to a nation's growth, the concept comes with numerous misnomers and is subjected to much academic debate and doubt. This volume maps out how truth and intellectual integrity remain the fundamental principle on which the foundation of a university should be laid. Seeking to widen the frontiers of academic freedom, the authors serve up a diverse range of case studies and examples of real-life practice to encourage readers to recognize the importance of the academic freedom of faculty and students, and acknowledge this freedom as one of the main goals to be achieved by any university. Ultimately, the authors demonstrate that the autonomy to work freely remains the foremost criterion of success, that it is a pre-requisite to facilitating the advancement of knowledge and quality of research in any institution of higher education, and is to be encouraged and supported by the leadership teams within those institutions.

Academic freedom. --- Sex discrimination in education. --- Racism in education. --- Academic freedom