Browsing by Subject "university"
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Digital tools disrupting tertiary students’ notions of disciplinary knowledge: Cases in history and tourism
(MDPI - Open Access Publishing, 2014)This paper reports on the findings from a two year research project that explored the potential of digital tools in support of teaching–learning across different disciplinary areas at a New Zealand university. Two courses ... -
Educational leadership for international partnerships between New Zealand and east Asian Chinese higher education institutions
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This study examines how higher education leaders in different socio-cultural contexts are involved in the practice of distributed leadership in international partnerships. This study employs socio-cultural theorising to ... -
Flipped classroom learning in a large introductory undergraduate engineering course
(2016)CONTEXT The flipped-classroom model is a recent educational development that is prominent in the literature on learning. The typical flipped class scenario involves students looking up information, reading printed materials ... -
PBRF on the horizon
(New Zealand Centre for Political Research, 2008-09-13)New Zealand universities spend a great deal of time and money evaluating the research outputs of their staff in the cause of Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF). This time and money is wasted since the assumptions ... -
Plagiarism and Cheating: A Mixed Methods Study of Student Academic Dishonesty
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This thesis was undertaken to fulfil the requirements of a Master's degree in Social Science Research and as such its main intention is to develop and demonstrate skill and competency by conducting a mixed methods research ... -
Profit for knowledge’s sake: The challenges for universities in constructing a brand in the twenty-first century
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis investigated how the challenges of constructing a brand in the twenty-first century are impacting on the idea of a university. There is a growing evidence-base in the literature that demonstrates the influence ... -
The university in the epoch of digital reason: Fast knowledge in the circuits of cybernetic capitalism
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2015)This article examines the university institutional in relation to the notion of time by postulating the concept of “the epoch of digital reason.” Within this epoch the university exhibits “fast knowledge” flows of knowledge ...
