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Enhancing Learning and Teaching Through Student Feedback in Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • January 16, 2012
  • Chenicheri Sid Nair + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 4 5 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 9 9 - 5
Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students’ tertiary experience. Despite this, there has been a relative lack of academic literature available, especially in a book format. This book focuses on the experiences of academics, higher education leaders and managers with expertise in these areas.Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Student Feedback in Engineering is the first in a series on student feedback focusing on a specific discipline, in this case engineering. It expands on topics covered in the previous book, by the same authors. Valuable contributions have been made from a variety of experts in the area of higher education quality and student feedback in the field of engineering.

Development and Reform of Higher Education in China

  • 1st Edition
  • September 5, 2011
  • Hong Zhen Zhu + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 3 5 9 - 6
The Chinese higher education sector is an area subject to increasing attention from an international perspective. Written by authors centrally located within the education system in China, Development and Reform of Higher Education in China highlights not only the development of different aspects of higher education, but also the reform of the education system and its role in the educational and social development of the country. This book analyses recently collected data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China and the work of leading scholars in the field of higher education. It highlights the marketization of state-owned institutions and the increasing importance of the internationalization of higher education – two important features of education in a modern and global context.

Student Feedback

  • 1st Edition
  • February 22, 2011
  • Chenicheri Sid Nair + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 5 7 3 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 5 8 - 2
In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this, there has been a relative lack of academic literature, especially in book format, focusing on the experiences of academics, higher education leaders and managers with expertise in this area. This comprehensive book addresses this gap.With contributions by experts in the area of higher education quality (academics, higher education leaders and managers) from a range of countries the book is concerned with the practices and theory of evaluation in higher education quality, in particular the issue of student feedback.

Leadership and Management of Quality in Higher Education

  • 1st Edition
  • August 12, 2010
  • Chenicheri Sid Nair + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
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This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education. It captures the experiences of senior administrators and managers to the complexity of problems that quality development involves. The authors draw attention to the human-centred approach to quality, as they argue that in any activity there is a need to take account of human values and attitudes.