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Planning and analyzing teaching: using the variation theory of learning
Using illustrative teaching case studies, this book demonstrates how teaching informed by a learning theory, specifically variation theory, can equip teachers to facilitate possibilities for students' learning in effective and powerful ways. For a long period of time teaching has been "black-boxed", in favour of other explanations of why students learn or not, such as motivation and social inte…
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- 9781003194903
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- xiii, 103 pages; illustration
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- 371.102 KUL p
Governing privacy in knowledge commons
Privacy, in contrast with secrecy, is a relational concept, achieved when personal information is shared appropriately between actors. Viewed in this way, privacy is necessarily contextual and complex because norms about appropriate flows and use of personal information are socially negotiated and often contested. (Nissenbaum, 2009) Privacy is thus a problem of collective action. Moreover, pers…
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- 9781108749978
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- xi, 289 pages; illustration
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- Cambridge studies on governing knowledge commons
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- 342.08 SAN g
Higher education institutions and digital transformation: building university…
"The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of…
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- 9781003363132
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- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge open business and economics
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- 378.1 LIS h
Actions of Their Own to Learn : Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…
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- 9789463512008
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- 284 p
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- 371.3 IRO A
Local knowledge matters
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledg…
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- 16
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- 9781447348085
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- III, 192 p
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- 320.609598
Integrating Immigrants in Europe
Europe has become a continent of immigration in the course of the last half century, and European societies have experienced growing ethnic and cultural diversity. Governmental actors have often made great efforts to collect and develop the knowledge and expertise to understand integration processes and to control and steer these. Major differences, however, exist between European countries in …
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- 1
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- 9783319162560
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- VIII, 343p
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.8 EDU s
Graph structures for knowledge representation and reasoning : 6th internation…
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2020, held virtually in September 2020, associated with ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were revie…
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- 9783030723088
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- IX, 151 p
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- 006.332 MIC g
Wikipedia and the representation of reality
A contemporary examination of what information is represented, how that information is presented, and who gets to participate (and serve as gatekeeper) in the world's largest online repository for information, Wikipedia. Bridging contemporary education research that addresses the 'experiential epistemology' of learning to use Wikipedia with an understanding of how the inception and design of th…
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- 9781003094081
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- xviii + 122 p
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- 030 ZAC w
Recent Advances in Knowledge Management
Recent Advances in Knowledge Management investigates the multidimensional aspects of knowledge management by exploring different perspectives and practices as well as existing theories of effective knowledge management in a changing world. Chapters address such topics as tacit knowledge, knowledge management frameworks, informally structured domains of knowledge management, and more. Beyond und…
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- 9781839699443
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- xiv, 178 p. : ill.
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- 658.4038 MOH r
Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle : learning by example in huma…
This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and coll…
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- 9783031111082
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- xvi, 337p. : ill.
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- 820.90001 INT i
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