Publications
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Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are ...
Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations
(2021)
This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological ...
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
(2022)
This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional vs modern, ...
Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
(2020)
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2021)
This open access book constitutes papers from the 5 research workshops, the poster presentations, as well as two panel discussions which were presented at XP 2021, the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software ...
Educational Change Amongst English Language College Teachers in China
(2020)
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities ...
Natural Computing and Beyond
(2013)
This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH) 2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15–16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held in Tokyo, Japan, March ...
Evidenzbasierter Fledermausschutz in Windkraftvorhaben
(2020)
Die Energieproduktion aus Windkraft ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Energiewende in Deutschland. Seit Jahren zeigen jedoch Untersuchungen, dass vor allem Fledermäuse und Großvögel vielfach durch Kollisionen an ...
Social Theory of Fear
(2010)
Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, ...
Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy
(2022)
This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected ...
Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
(2020)
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and ...
Digitalisierung in Studium und Lehre gemeinsam gestalten
(2021)
Der Open-Access-Band adressiert die Herausforderungen und Chancen der Digitalisierung für Studierende und Lehrende sowie für Support-Strukturen und Leitungen von Hochschulen in Deutschland. Thematische Schwerpunkte bilden ...
Social Media for Civic Education
(2023)
This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has ...
Design Ethnography
(2021)
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards ...
Care Poverty
(2022)
This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on expenditures and volumes of long-term care ...
Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks
(2021)
This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluation forums run by a global team of researchers and hosted by the ...
Migration in South Asia
(2023)
This open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from ...
Seamless Learning
(2022)
Das Konzept des «Seamless Learning» unterstützt kontextübergreifendes und barrierefreies Lehren und Lernen durch die Integration digitaler Technologien und die Berücksichtigung von Kontext und Anforderungen der jeweiligen ...
Blockchain and Crypto Currency
(2020)
This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of ...
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
(2022)
This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and ...