One of the most significant recent trends in Higher Education has been the move from a focus on teaching to one on learning. But, as anyone who has ever run programmes or courses will recognise, both the physical geography and the ethos of the location have major impacts on the quality of the resulting learning experience. Hence the current interest in learning spaces – considered here as ‘sites of interaction.’ The fourteen chapters of this anthology, produced by the international Association Learning in Higher Education’s well-tested and rigorous methodology, discuss the concept of learning spaces, the pedagogy of learning spaces, and the way learning spaces are changing. Learning Space Design indicates that the evolution of learning spaces is, and ought to be, a contested area which cannot be resolved just through a formal building commissioning process. It is important to make explicit the nexus between educational philosophy and architectural design of physical and/or virtual learning spaces, especially if the aim is to increase student agency, interaction, and collaboration. Learning Space Design puts the spotlight on an important, but often overlooked, dimension of teaching and learning processes in higher education. It is a rallying call for a mission to explore further the nature and purposes of learning spaces, and it should be essential reading for all those designing, delivering or evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. About the editors Lennie Scott-Webber is Director Education Environments of Steelcase Education Solutions at Steelcase Inc. in Grand Rapids, U.S.A. John Branch is Academic Director of the part-time MBA programmes and Lecturer of Marketing at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Russian, East European, &amp; European Studies, both of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Paul Bartholomew is Director of Learning Innovation and Professional Practice at Aston University in Birmingham, England. Claus Nygaard is executive director of LiHE and executive director of cph:learning institute.

Learning Space Design in Higher Education

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Libri Publishing Ltd.

Innovative Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education (Learning in Higher Education)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Gavin Faringdon: Portrait of a Rebel Peer

Biographies & Memoirs

Vlitos, Roger

Historical

This is the latest volume in the Learning in Higher Education series. Active Learning has at least two major benefits: 1) it engages students in their learning, and 2) it enhances their deeper learning outcomes. In this book, authors from universities in Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Romania, Turkey, the UK and the USA show how they have used active learning to engage their students and improve their deeper learning outcomes. Reading the book, you will gain insight into how the authors designed and carried out their teaching, using one of these eleven active learning methods:\nauthentic project-based learning; case-based learning; experience-based learning; flipped and peer learning; inquiry-based learning; learning space design; project-based learning; research-based learning; students as partners framework; technology-enhanced learning; and virtual exchange co-design.\nThe deeper learning outcomes documented by surveying or interviewing students include: a sense of belonging for improving retention; development of graduate attributes; digital pedagogy and professional skills; engaged and enhanced learning experiences; enhanced well-being; graduate employability; interpersonal and leadership skills; reflective practitioners; research communication competencies; and retention and employability. All the chapters in the book are underpinned by contemporary learning theories and methodologies on active learning. Yet, they are written in a direct and accessible language to inspire the reader to engage in teaching practices that enhance active learning in higher education.

Active Learning in Higher Education: Student Engagement and Deeper Learning Outcomes

About the Author\nThe author, Rolf Lynton, PhD, has spent his life helping communities address many of the transcendent challenges that face our world, including poverty, unemployment, public health, and discrimination. His distinctive approach to global problem solving was to create inclusive, collaborative, and innovative institutions through which people could bring about desperately needed changes and, by their own initiative, achieve a greater measure of social justice. His path-breaking and still innovative methods are showcased in this vivid first-person narrative survey of his adventurous career.\nIn this fascinating professional memoir, the reader becomes an eyewitness as the author deploys an emergent change approach to institution building, across four continents and seven decades. Rolf Lynton works on a novel program of women’s employment in post-WWII textile industry in Scotland. Next, he and his partner Ronnie Lynton build an intensive but temporary community where men and women of diverse faiths and backgrounds live and learn together and then seed change throughout the developing world. There is also an engaging account of the creation of small industries development across newly independent India, despite significant opposition. After that project, Rolf designs an innovative school of public health in the American South, challenging many cultural norms based on ideas of what and for whom education should be. In the fifth of his six settings, he leads an international team to extend health care all across Indonesia and, in his last project, he and Ronnie return to India to expand a successful initiative, already helping thousands of the poorest of the rural poor. The human element, often missing from reports of why projects succeed or fail, is front and centre.

Building Inclusive Collaborative Organizations – A Career on Four Continents

Lynton PhD, Rolf P.

Professionals & Academics

Rage provides helpful insights into an unpredictable emotion. This book on sudden attacks or fits of rage, first published in German in 2007, takes us on a multi-layered, interesting journey through the cultural history and social psychology of this unpredictable emotion. It gives answers to the questions: Where does rage come from? How does rage manifest itself? And what can we do about it? It outlines the various perspectives of perpetrators and victims, exploring their social and cultural context. Moving case studies provide numerous helpful hints and insights for understanding rage. This second, revised edition features a more diverse and multifaceted range of sources, which offer answers to this unpredictable emotion from the world of psychotherapy. The author points out the potential in therapeutic aspects of self-empowerment which, with regular practice, can be applied to our everyday lives. A book for those personally affected, their loved ones, and for people in the caring professions. 
Inside: 
- Causes and reasoning 
- Triggers, cultural, religious and socio-psychological aspects 
- Psychotherapy, insight and education

Rage

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Itten, Thedor

Mental Health

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: An Illustrated Guide for Medical Students and Allied Healthcare Professionals

Medical Books

Goodson, Alexander M. C.

Payne, Karl F. B.

Isaac, Robert

Medicine

With the explosion of hybrid teams and the increasing pressure to protect the planet, it has become very important for leaders to understand how power works in virtual collaboration and leadership. Ghislaine Caulat’s work with teams at top executive level shows that top executives do not know what they don’t know about power in the virtual space. If you want to create a culture of “speaking up,” you need to understand the powers dynamics in virtual teams. Powerful or Powerless in the Virtual Space – the Choice Is Yours! provides a strong combination of in-depth knowledge with very practical tips that leaders can implement straight after having read the book. Powerful or Powerless in the Virtual Space – the Choice Is Yours! is based on intensive research with 20 leaders across continents and organisations during a total period of two years. It is also based on the author’s work in virtual leadership since 2003 with over 2,900 leaders. The reader will learn to identify how, differently from face-to-face, power can be expressed in the virtual space and how they can help people to speak up, or on the contrary how they can cut people off from their power without realising it.

Powerful or Powerless in the Virtual Space – the Choice Is Yours!

Caulat PhD, Ghislaine

Management & Leadership

The Coaching Buyers' Handbook: A practical guide for HR managers, coach commissioners and coachees to get the best from coaching

Over the past 30 years, coaching has grown into a professional service, delivered by billion-dollar businesses for people at every level. But support for those tasked with the responsibility of buying coaching is still hard to come by. This book is designed to help individual coachees, line managers of coachees, and organisational buyers of coaching to get the most out of coaching.\nThrough compiling the 50 most popular questions and drawing together a diverse panel of experts, The Coaching Buyers' Handbook presents crisp and clear answers to each. By helping create smarter, more informed buyers, this book will contribute to driving up standards throughout the coaching industry.

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