Understanding University A Guide To Another Planet

Author : Christine Sinclair
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335227880
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Understanding University: A Guide to Another Planet written by Christine Sinclair and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-04-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does university seem like another planet? Does everyone else seem to speak another language? What can you do to make the grade? If these are the kind of questions you are asking, then this is the book you need. After the excitement of being accepted, the reality of life at university or college can be daunting, but help is at hand. This practical book guides new students through the terminology used at university and shows you: what a student needs to know how to be accepted by students and lecturers how to get the best out of your institution and yourself how to communicate using appropriate language in higher education institutions how to learn the conventions of your specific subject area how to be confident and competent in your new world All new students find the move to university slightly bewildering, but with this book you can be one step ahead. The author has spent time talking to students across a broad range of different universities and uses her first-hand experience as a basis for the book. Understanding University provides a lifeline for new students in further and higher education offering everything from practical advice on studying, to explanations of frequently used terms. If you don’t know the difference between a seminar and a tutorial or want to know what ‘matriculation’ means, then this is where to start. Need a little assistance? Just open this book. And remember - you are not alone.

Author : Sinclair, Christine
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335217974
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding University: A Guide To Another Planet written by Sinclair, Christine and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does university seem like another planet? Does everyone else seem to speak another language? What can you do to make the grade? If these are the kind of questions you are asking, then this is the book you need. After the excitement of being accepted, the reality of life at university or college can be daunting, but help is at hand. This practical book guides new students through the terminology used at university and shows you: what a student needs to know how to be accepted by students and lecturers how to get the best out of your institution and yourself how to communicate using appropriate language in higher education institutions how to learn the conventions of your specific subject area how to be confident and competent in your new world All new students find the move to university slightly bewildering, but with this book you can be one step ahead. The author has spent time talking to students across a broad range of different universities and uses her first-hand experience as a basis for the book. Understanding University provides a lifeline for new students in further and higher education offering everything from practical advice on studying, to explanations of frequently used terms. If you don't know the difference between a seminar and a tutorial or want to know what 'matriculation' means, then this is where to start. Need a little assistance? Just open this book. And remember - you are not alone.

Author : Petar Jandrić
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031312996
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postdigital Research written by Petar Jandrić and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores genealogies and the challenges related to the concept of the postdigital, the ambiguous nature of postdigital knowledges, and the many faces of postdigital sensibilities. The book answers three key questions: What is postdigital knowledge? What does it mean to do postdigital research? What, if anything, is distinct from research conducted in other perspectives? As such, this book is a one-stop publication for those interested in the theory of postdigital research. Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives is complemented by Constructing Postdigital Research: Method and Emancipation, also edited by Petar Jandrić, Alison MacKenzie, and Jeremy Knox, which explores these questions in practice.

Author : Johnston, Bill
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335234518
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Year At University: Teaching Students In Transition written by Johnston, Bill and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first year at university can be a very challenging time for students especially in a mass system of higher education. Many students are ill equipped to cope with life at university and retention is now a critical metric for all universities. This has resulted in universities having to spend considerable time and attention on ensuring that the 'first year experience' is as positive as possible for all students. This book sets out to offer a range of practical strategies, underpinned by relevant research, which lecturers can implement when charged with working with first year students and helping them make the transition to higher education. As well as providing a practical resource, the book will be of value to lecturers undertaking the PGCE (Higher Education) as well as CPD courses on teaching and learning in higher education.

Author : Petar Jandrić
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031354117
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Postdigital Research written by Petar Jandrić and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the various methods of constructing postdigital research, with a particular focus on the postdigital dynamic of inclusion and exclusion, as well as the interplay between method and emancipation. By answering three fundamental questions - the relationship between postdigital theory and research practice, the relationship between method and emancipation, and how to construct emancipatory postdigital research - the book serves as a comprehensive resource for those interested in conducting postdigital research. Constructing Postdigital Research: Method and Emancipation is complemented by Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives, also edited by Petar Jandrić, Alison MacKenzie, and Jeremy Knox, which explores these questions in theory.

Author : Maggi Savin-Baden
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335235255
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Learning Spaces: Creating Opportunities for Knowledge Creation in Academic Life written by Maggi Savin-Baden and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a timely and important book which seeks to reclaim universities as places of learning. It is jargon free and forcefully argued. It should be on every principal and vice-chancellor's list of essential reading.” Jon Nixon, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield The ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings. This book explores the concept of learning spaces, the idea that there are diverse forms of spaces within the life and life world of the academic where opportunities to reflect and critique their own unique learning position occur. Learning Spaces sets out to challenge the notion that academic thinking can take place in cramped, busy working spaces, and argues instead for a need to recognise and promote new opportunities for learning spaces to emerge in academic life. The book examines the ideas that: Learning spaces are increasingly absent in academic life The creation and re-creation of learning spaces is vital for the survival of the academic community The absence of learning spaces is resulting in increasing dissolution and fragmentation of academic identities Learning spaces need to be valued and possibly redefined in order to regain and maintain the intellectual health of academe In offering possibilities for creative learning spaces, this innovative book provides key reading for those interested in the future of universities including educational developers, researchers, managers and policy makers.

Author : Petar Jandrić
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319137522
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Learning in Digital Networks written by Petar Jandrić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive, and socially engaged educational practice. Chapters explore in depth evolving concepts of real and virtual, the processes of learning in, against, and beyond the internet, and the role of critical pedagogy in improving social conditions. In all, coverage is both realistic and positive about the potential of digital technologies in higher education as well as social and academic challenges on the horizon. Included among the topics: Counting on use of technology to enhance learning. Decentralized networked learning through online pre-publication. The reality of the online teacher. Moving from urban to virtual spaces and back. The project of a virtual emancipatory pedagogy. Using information technologies in the service of humanity. It is no longer a question of "Can technology enhance learning" it's a given that it does. Critical Learning in Digital Networks offers education researchers, teacher educators, instructional technologists, and instructional designers tools and methods for strengthening this increasingly vital interconnection.

Author : Ray Land
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460915809
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Difference written by Ray Land and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sense of disquietude seems ever present when discussing new digital practices. The transformations incurred through these can be profound, troublesome in nature and far-reaching. Moral panics remain readily available. Discussing the manner in which digital culture within education might differ from its ‘analogue’ predecessors incurs the risk of resorting to increasingly roadworn meta¬phors of new frontiers, ‘cyber’ domains, inter-generational conflicts and, inevitably, the futurist utopias and dystopias characterised by Western media throughout the twentieth century. These imaginings now seem to belong to an earlier era of internet thinking. We are freer, over two decades on, to re-evaluate digital difference from new perspectives. Are digital learning environments now orthodox, or do the rapidly emerging technologies hold a new promise and a new arena of difference for pedagogical practice? What are the points of rift, and the points of continuity, between virtual learning spaces and their equivalents in the real? What qualities of difference should concern us now? The writings in this collection from three continents reflect a complex embrace of culture, power and technology. Topics range from social questions of consumption, speed, uncertainty, and risk to individual issues of identity, selfhood and desire. Ethical issues arise, involving equity and authority, as well as structural questions of order and ambiguity. From these themes emerges an engaging agenda for future educational research and practice in higher education over the coming decade. The book will interest teachers, practitioners and managers from all disciplines, as well as educational researchers.

Author : Jennifer Latto
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335237193
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Study Skills for Psychology Students written by Jennifer Latto and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical handbook is an essential companion for psychology students. From day one of your degree, it will make all the difference. Based on the authors' extensive knowledge of psychology, it includes: Key approaches in psychology The best ways to study How to use IT effectively Producing excellent assignments and exams Helpful advice on statistical methods Tackling projects and dissertations An introduction to careers in psychology It contains exercises, tips, advice from students, and a glossary of commonly used terms in psychology. An accompanying website www.openup.co.uk/psychologysuccess has more information on psychology-related careers with up-to-date web links.

Author : Tim Fawns
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030776735
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World written by Tim Fawns and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume builds upon the premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences. It is founded on a “postdigital” perspective in which, much more than interactions with keyboards, computer screens, hardware or software, the learning that happens on online postgraduate programmes spills out into professional and informal settings, making connections with what comes before and after any formally-scheduled tasks. Unlike other books relating to online education, this book combines a theoretical perspective, in which the digital, physical and social are all interconnected within complex educational ecologies, with a focus grounded in postgraduate practice. This focus has important implications for the kinds of students and learning that are explored in the chapters of the book. This book provides an important contribution to the knowledge of what is required to produce quality, online postgraduate programmes at the level of teachers, curriculum designers, faculty developers and policy-makers.