This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the bo…
Buku ini berbentuk karangan bunga rampai yang mengulas permasalahan akses energi listrik yang dihadapi masyarakat yang tinggal di daerah terpencil. Keterbatasan energi listrik di suatu daerah berkaitan erat kemiskinan yang dialami masyarakat di daerah tersebut. Melalui perbaikan dan peningkatan akses listrik, pengentasan kemiskinan juga diharapkan dapat dilakukan.
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we …
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of …
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…
Buku ini menulilskan kajian tentang konsep, model, dan implementasi sistem penyelenggaraan pendidikan tinggi terbuka ditinjau dari berbagai perspektif, khususnya pendidikan terbuka sebagai alat untuk membangun sumberdaya insani Indonesia, untuk menghadirkan keadilan sosial, untuk memberikan pelayanan publik, untuk mendemokratisasikan pendidikan, dan untuk menciptakan keadilan ekonomi; yang pada…
Buku ini berisi kumpulan tulisan dalam bentuk esai terkait sistem pendidikan jarak jauh yang disampaikan dengan bahasa sederhana agar dapat dipahami oleh semua kalangan. Tulisan dalam buku ini menyajikan narasi hasil dari pengamatan, pengalaman, dan gagasan perspektif milenial sehingga menjadi warna tersendiri terhadap gambaran pendidikan jarak jauh.
For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond negatively to evaluation, assessments have provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurat…
Dunia berputar dengan putaran yang terasa semakin cepat. Tentu bukan putaran planet bumi yang semakin cepat, tetapi perkembangan yang terjadi dalam kehidupan kita. Perkembangan teknologi yang sekarang disebut-sebut tengah mengalami revolusi industri ke-4 telah berimbas ke segala sendi kehidupan kita. Bahkan jauh sebelum itu, perkembangan teknologi secara pasti telah mengubah berbagai dimensi ke…
Learning to Learn Online prepares you for success in your online journey by introducing you to the unique features of the online learning environment, and providing tools for understanding yourself and your role as a self-directed learner. The first part of the book focuses on three key questions: 1. Who am I as an online learner? 2. Who am I on my online learning journey with? 3. Who are…