The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Selected Regular Lectures from the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education

Selected Regular Lectures from the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education
Author: Sung Je Cho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 917
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319171879

This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012. ICME-12 brought together 4700 experts from 100 countries, working to understand all of the intellectual and attitudinal challenges in the subject of mathematics education as a multidisciplinary research and practice. These selected Regular Lectures present the work of fifty-one prominent mathematics educators from all over the globe. The Lectures cover a wide spectrum of topics, themes and issues and aim to give direction to future research towards educational improvement in the teaching and learning of mathematics education. This book is of particular interest to researchers, teachers and curriculum developers in mathematics education.

The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities

The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities
Author: Professor Kate Ashcroft
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135719896

A follow-up volume to "Managing Teaching and Learning in Further Education and Higher Education", this text provides a guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. It covers key issues such as teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation, course design, bidding for and managing resources, marketing and research.; Based on the model of lecturer as reflective practitioner, this book is intended to help enable the lecturer to make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards. Its interactive design introduces stimulating ideas and suggestions for further reading and provides guidelines on issues of relevance to individual readers.

From Herd Boy to University Lecturer

From Herd Boy to University Lecturer
Author: Yotamu Hara
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9996060713

Handwell Yotamu Hara (*1942) was an ordinary boy from a village in Mzimba in Malawi. Though his parents were illiterate he was inspired through education and faith to become a primary school teacher and also earned a PhD from Pretoria University and later became a lecturer at Zomba Theological College and ?nally at Mzuzu University. This small autobiography is just one offered as part of the ongoing commitment by Mzuni Press to encourage Malawians to read meaningful books on a range of subjects reflecting their countrys society and culture.