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Collaborative governance : a new era of public policy in Australia?
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we present scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the drivers, challenges, prospects and promise of collaboration. The papers, first presented at the 2007 ANZSOG Conference, dr…
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- 9781921536410
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- XVI, 201 p.
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- 354.94 WAN c
Reading Today
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we r…
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- 9781787351950
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- X, 199 p.
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- 028 REA r
Opening government : transparency and engagement in the information age
Transparency and citizen engagement remain essential to good government and sound public policy. Indeed, they may well be the key to restoring trust in government itself, currently at an all-time low in Australia. It is ironic, then, that this has occurred at a time when the technological potential for information dissemination and interaction has never been greater. Opening Government: Transpa…
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- 9781760461942
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- xii, 165p. : ill.
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- 323.445099409046 OPE o
The social dynamics of open data
The Social Dynamics of Open Data is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 2nd Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS) held in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2016. Research is critical to developing a more rigorous and fine-combed analysis not only of why open data is valuable, but how it is valuable and under what specific conditions. The objective of the Open Data Research Symposium a…
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- 9781928331568
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- viii, 200p. : ill.
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- 352.88 SOC s
Knowledge in the age of digital capitalism : an introduction to cognitive mat…
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an acc…
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- 9781911534273
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- ix, 261p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 ZUK k
Libraries driving access to knowledge
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss…
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- 9783110263121
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- 402p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- IFLA publications, 151
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- 021.2 LAU l
25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countr…
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, …
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- 9783319529806
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- xxviii, 482p. : ill.
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- 378 TWE t
Technologies and trust
What is trust and how new technologies are changing or affecting the concept of trust? This publication offers insights from researchers working in educational technology and distance education, collected in the frame of the European FP-7 Marie-Curie People project “Stimulators and inhibitors of a culture of trust in educational interactions assisted by modern information and communication te…
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- 9788891754554
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- 98p. : ill.
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- 371.33 TEC t
Motivational profiles in TIMSS mathematics
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
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- 9783030261832
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- xi, 144p.: ill.
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- 510.71 MIC m
Education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of eco…
This book presents an overview of the main research findings and case studies concerning education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies. Focusing on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam, it discusses government and business sector responses to these issues and how Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems and institutions are address…
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- 9789811065590
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- 198 p.
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- 658.514 MAC e
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