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Optimizing Intelligences: Thinking, Emotion and Creativity

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This exciting video will expand your knowledge by explaining the three theories that are revolutionizing our thinking about intelligence, emotion, and creativity. Learn the valuable applications of these theories in your classrooms. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a professor at the University of Chicago and world-renowned author. The host for our journey is Peter Salovey, Yale University professor and co-founder of the theory of emotional intelligence. Dr. Salovey helps us … More >>

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Measuring What Matters: Competency-Based Learning Models in Higher Education: New Directions for Institutional Research

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Intended as a toolkit for academic administrators, faculty and researchers to deal effectively with the rapid emergence of competency-based learning models across higher education, this volume provides practical advice and proven techniques for implementing and evaluating these models. Drawing from a recent National Postsecondary Education Cooperative project that examined data and policy implications across public and private institutions as well as an industr… More >>

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Native American Education: A Reference Handbook

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This fascinating overview provides a comprehensive introduction to the education of Native Americans in the United States. Historically, schools were seen as essential to formal education but also as the custodians of community values, a way to socialize Native Americans into the European way of life.Native American Education: A Reference Handbook describes the role played by various churches and missionaries and their different approaches to education against a bac… More >>

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