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The latest volume in the Learning in Higher Education series, Innovative Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education introduces the reader to a number of inspiring transformative educational practices. It explores in depth what has motivated these teachers to transform their teaching, how they went about doing it, and what the results were for their students in terms of learning and engagement. The innovative practices in the book cent...

We live in the digital age. There are more than 3 billion people connected to the internet. For every 100 people on the planet, there are 96 mobile telephone subscriptions. And more and more of our everyday objects--cuddly toys, cars, even kettles--have created an "internet of things." Marketers, in particular, hope that so-called digital marketing will allow them to gain new customer insights, refine customer segmentation, and communicate to ...

Learning-Centred Curriculum Design in Higher Education is written to inspire and empower university teachers to engage in curriculum design processes that centre both the learning process and the learning outcomes of students. The book is structured by a central model of curriculum design, which links together learning (how students learn versus what students learn) and curriculum design (he process by which we design versus what we design).

This latest volume in the Learning in Higher Education series, New Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education presents primary examples of innovative teaching and learning practices in higher education. The authors ¿ scholars of teaching and learning from universities across the globe ¿ all share the ambition to develop educational provisions to become much more learning-centred. Such learning-centredness is key to quality enhanc...

Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines, using transdisciplinary strategies, the economics and mythologies of today's global artworld. It unmasks the complex web of relationships that now exist between, high profile curators, collectors, museum trustees and corporate sponsors, and the historic and ongoing complicity between the art and money markets. It also examines alternative models being deployed by curators and artists inf...

Globalisation of Higher Education

This book explores housing design with a focus onaffordability. It gives the perspectives of award-winning and internationallyrenowned practitioners and academics who research and teach on housing, professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The bookforegrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and tomorrow.

Higher Education has stayed the same for centuries. Look inside a classroom. Design-wise it's different. But the modus operandi is the same. Teachers are responsible for orchestrating activities. Students wait to be told what to do. This book on innovative teaching and learning in higher education flips the coin. It shows real life examples of innovative changes in teaching and learning practices explained by teachers.

A Flaneur/Peripatetic Production"--T.p. verso.

Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way? focuses on the main structural, managerial and policy changes that have been taking place within the world's health care systems since the early 1990s. It questions whether these 'reforms' are driven primarily by the health needs of the wider population or, in fact, by non-health considerations - the financial, ideological and political concerns of governments and global institutions. John Lister de...

Looking at zoological gardens, private menageries, circuses, and natural history museums, this fascinating account explores the surprising extent of the exotic-animal trade in 19th-century England and its colonies. Filled with entertaining anecdotes-from the tiger that prowled down St. George's Street in London with a boy in its mouth and the polar bear that killed a dog in Liverpool to the kangaroos hopping around the lawns of stately homes a...

When John Lister's book Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way was published in 2005, it was hailed as the definitive critique of market-oriented health care 'reforms' that the World Bank has been promoting at least since 1993. He produced a crucial argument in favour of equity-oriented, rights-based approaches to the design and operation of health systems, in both rich and poor countries alike. Much has changed since John Lister's firs...

An in-depth exploration of the influence of the Gothic on modern crime fiction.

What makes a particular performance 'great'? The Greatest Shows on Earth offers an address that focuses sharply on theatre as performance: as an event that can stir the blood, the spirit and the brain like nothing else. The result is a book about fourteen outstanding theatre events from a dozen countries. In discrete, production-focused chapters, work from Peter Brook's King Lear through to the Sydney Olympics Opening Event is approached by a ...

An analysis of the heavy cost of privatising health services.

Rather than focus on the actions of the coach, this handbook places relationships - to one's self and to others - at the heart of the coaching activity. Beginning with an explanation of relational coaching, including its principles and practices, this account goes on to describe the evolution of the relational turn in executive coaching.

Shortlist: >Thinking of buying a franchise, creating your own franchise, or franchising a product more effectively? Packed with real-life case studies and key insights from the owners and operators of successful franchise systems--including Domino's Pizza, Dunkin' Donuts, Haagen Dazs, Café2U, Snappy Snaps, Ramada Encore, and Burger & Lobster--this book is the essential contemporary guide for aspiring franchisees or ambitious franchisors. It pr...

Closeness at a Distance is a groundbreaking approach to the challenges so many teams, and team leaders, face today. Virtual working is now a reality for most professionals, and the winners of tomorrow will be companies that proactively drive the performance of their virtual cooperations. Virtual leadership, project management at a distance, and networking are today's and tomorrow's critical success factors. So any leader needs to ask him or he...

For at least two decades, people have been working together virtually, their interactions enabled and mediated by communication technology, based on years of research, this book summarizes what it takes to lead effectively in the virtual space. Arguing that becoming an effective virtual leader requires a deeper level of reflection--including questioning one's sense of identity, relationships, trust, and power--this account offers valuable advi...