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 Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education: From a Course Design Workshop to a Faculty Development Framework By Alenoush Saroyan, Cheryl Amundsen 2004 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1579220460 | PDF | 7 MB This book is intended for faculty and faculty developers, as well as for deans, chairs, and directors responsible for promoting teaching and learning in higher education. Intentionally non-technical, it engages readers reflectively with a process for developing teaching and details the planning necessary to apply this process to teaching within disciplines.The book centers on McGill University's week-long Course Design and Teaching Workshop that the contributors have offered together for more than ten years. It follows the five day format of the workshop-covering the analysis of course content, conceptions of learning, the selection of appropriate teaching strategies, the evaluation of student learning, and evaluation of teaching-in a way that reflects the spontaneity of the debates it has engendered and the workshop's evolutionary changes. The structure shows faculty members conceptualizing new courses or re-examining their teaching of existing courses, and translating the insights gained from the workshop to specific disciplinary content and learning outcomes. In addition four previous participants of the workshop write about its influence on their personal thinking about the practice of teaching.The final two chapters describe the structure and evolving role of McGill's Centre for University Teaching and Learning. The authors describe its objectives in fostering an evidence-based teaching culture and providing a practical support structure with limited resources. They highlight achievements in disseminating teaching expertise across their campus, and their vision for the future role of faculty development. This book provides faculty developers and administrators with valuable non-prescriptive models and challenging ideas that promote faculty development in general and university teaching in particular. It engages faculty members in the process of course design in a way that is learning centered and can lead to deep student learning.  Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications By Yasar A. Ozcan PhD 2009 | 467 Pages | ISBN: 0470434627 | PDF | 8 MB Thoroughly revised and updated for ExcelВ®, this second edition of Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management offers a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods and techniques for the student or new administrator. Its broad range of practical methods and analysis spans operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. Users will find techniques for forecasting, decision-making, facility location, facility layout, reengineering, staffing, scheduling, productivity, resource allocation, supply chain and inventory management, quality control, project management, queuing models for capacity, and simulation. The book's step-by-step approach, use of Excel, and downloadable Excel templates make the text highly practical. Praise for the Second Edition ''The second edition of Dr. Ozcan's textbook is comprehensive and well-written with useful illustrative examples that give students and health care professionals a perfect toolkit for quantitative decision making in health care on the road for the twenty-first century. The text helps to explain the complex health care management problems and offer support for decision makers in this field.'' вЂ"Marion Rauner, associate professor, School of Business, Economics, and Statistics, University of Vienna. ''Quantitative Methods in Health Care Administration, Second Edition covers a broad set of necessary and important topics. It is a valuable text that is easy to teach and learn from.'' вЂ"David Belson, professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.  Probabilistic Methods for Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics By 1998 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 3540646221 | DJVU | 5 MB The book gives an accessible account of modern probabilistic methods for analyzing combinatorial structures and algorithms. It will be an useful guide for graduate students and researchers. Special features included: a simple treatment of Talagrand's inequalities and their applications; an overview and many carefully worked out examples of the probabilistic analysis of combinatorial algorithms; a discussion of the ''exact simulation'' algorithm (in the context of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods); a general method for finding asymptotically optimal or near optimal graph colouring, showing how the probabilistic method may be fine-tuned to exploit the structure of the underlying graph; a succinct treatment of randomized algorithms and derandomization techniques.  Presidents (DK Eyewitness), New Edition by DK English | January 5th, 2021 | ISBN: 1465457704 | 72 pages | True PDF | 28.40 MB Explore America's history with a look at the leaders who have held its highest office.  Prehistoric Art - Cave Dwellers Edition by Baby Professor English | May 15, 2015 | ISBN: 1541917537 | 64 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 6.90 Mb Did you know that cave dwellers left art on their walls to not only entertain themselves but to also share their stories? Much of what we know about these prehistoric humans come from the art they have left. This book will discuss prehistoric art would in the Asian, European, African, American and Ocean regions. Grab a copy today.  Photographing the Nude by Mike Crawley English | 2002 | ISBN: 0715314556 | 162 pages | PDF | 102 MB Mike Crawley's Photographing the Nude is a thoroughly practical and inspiring guide for photographers of all levels. It begins by teaching a number of basic skills key to developing a sound understanding of the art-nude photography shares many of the same technical problems as other areas of portraiture.  Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism By Robert E. Stillman 2008 | 283 Pages | ISBN: 0754663698 | PDF | 3 MB Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy", the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain. Offering a fresh interpretation of Sidney's celebration of fiction-making, Stillman locates the origins of his poetics inside a neglected historical community: the intellectual elite associated with Philip Melanchthon (leader of the German Reformation after Luther), the so-called Philippists.As a challenge to traditional Anglo-centric scholarship, his study demonstrates how Sidney's education by Continental Philippists enabled him to dignify fiction-making as a compelling form of public discourse - compelling because of its promotion of powerful new concepts about reading and writing, its ecumenical piety, and its political ambition to secure through natural law (from universal 'Ideas') freedom from the tyranny of confessional warfare. Intellectually ambitious and wide-ranging, this study draws together various elements of contemporary scholarship in literary, religious, and political history in order to afford a broader understanding of the Defence and the cultural context inside which Sidney produced both his poetry and his poetics.  Payment Systems in Global Perspective By Maxwell J. Fry 1999 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 0415207649 | PDF | 2 MB This volume provides an authoritative overview by central bankers from both developed and developing countries of the complex practical and policy implications of international payments systems.  Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry (Oxford Medical Handbooks), 4th Edition by David Semple, Roger Smyth English | September 24, 2019 | ISBN: 0198795556 | True PDF | 1200 pages | 25.4 MB This new fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is the essential, evidence-based companion to all aspects of psychiatry, from diagnosis and conducting a clinical interview to management by subspecialty. Fully updated to reflect changes to the legislature and classification of psychiatric disorders, and with coverage of the anticipated ICD-11 coding, this Handbook provides the latest advances in both clinical practice and management today.  Oxford Handbook of Neurology (Oxford Medical Handbooks), 2nd Edition by Hadi Manji, Sean Connolly, Neil Kitchen, Christian Lambert, Amrish Mehta English | December 16, 2014 | ISBN: 0199601178 | True PDF | 656 pages | 41.3 MB Fully updated for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Neurology is the definitive guide for all those working in neurology and neurosurgery. This practical and concise quick-reference resource includes a wealth of information and invaluable clinical guidance to ensure all readers stay up-to-date in this fast-moving specialty. |
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