Product Description: Conceptualized and put into practice by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Muhammad Yunus, social businesses work to address social ills such as poverty, lack of health care, gaps in education and environmental challenges...read more

Product Description: Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Education, as well as interviews with students from a variety of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality examines the question of who really benefits from public higher education...read more

Product Description: Despite the large lecture courses commonly found in colleges, the essence of learning is essentially a one-to-one dialogue between a tutor and learner. As such, the Internet has now made individual learning practical and cost effective to a degree never before possible...read more

'This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning. More than 450 international contributors from over 50 countries'--Provided by publisher.

'This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning. More than 450 international contributors from over 50 countries'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The importance of for-profit higher education becomes clear when one examines the state of higher education today. Traditional institutions are facing major pressures, including diminishing financial support, a call to serve adult learners, the need to balance applied and liberal arts curricula, and the need to maintain and evolve the institutional mission...read more

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Product Description: An examination of the notion of computer as medium and what such an idea might mean for education. It suggests that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to re-envisioning educational technology, and draws on a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to film criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Darkroom opens at a Southern California shopping mall where a man has been murdered in broad daylight, and Pete, a police photographer, is called in to take a picture of the corpse. Later, Pete is given the tedious job of looking at the videotapes for suspicious persons having contact with the victim in the weeks preceding the murder...read more