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UNINA9910456571603321 |
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Milam Erika Lorraine <1974-> |
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Looking for a few good males [[electronic resource] ] : female choice in evolutionary biology / / Erika Lorraine Milam |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010 |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Animals, history, culture |
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Courtship in animals |
Evolution (Biology) |
Courtship in animals - Research - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Beauty and the Beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the Animal-Human Boundary; CHAPTER 2. Progressive Desire: Rational Evolution after the Great War; CHAPTER 3. Branching Out, Scaling Up: American Experiments on Behavior; CHAPTER 4. Courtly Behavior: The Rituals of British Zoologists; CHAPTER 5. A Science of Rare Males: The Genetics of Populations in the Long 1960's; CHAPTER 6. Selective History: Writing Female Choice into Organismal Biology; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; |
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UNINA9910464550303321 |
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Losh Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews) |
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The war on learning : gaining ground in the digital university / / by Elizabeth Losh |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , 2014 |
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[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2014] |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Education, Higher - Effect of technological innovations on |
Education, Higher - Computer network resources |
Teacher-student relationships |
Internet in education |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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What they learn in college -- The war on learning -- On camera: the baked professor makes his debut -- From reality TV to the research university: coursecasting and pedogogical drama -- The rhetoric of the open courseware movement -- Honor coding: plagiarism software and educational opportunism -- Toy problems: education as product -- The plays the thing: games and virtual worlds in higher education -- Gaining ground in the digital university. |
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Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in a war on learning itself. In this book, Elizabeth Losh examines current efforts to "reform" higher education by applying technological solutions to problems in teaching and learning. She finds that many of these initiatives fail because they treat education as a product rather than a process. Highly touted schemes -- video games for the classroom, for example, or the |
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distribution of iPads -- let students down because they promote consumption rather than intellectual development. Losh analyzes recent trends in postsecondary education and the rhetoric around them, often drawing on first-person accounts. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs (massive open online courses), the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures (from Randy Pausch to "the Baked Professor"), and educational virtual worlds. Finally, Losh outlines six basic principles of digital learning and describes several successful university-based initiatives. Her book will be essential reading for campus decision makers -- and for anyone who cares about education and technology. |
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UNINA9910789537503321 |
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Grobusch Martin Peter |
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What does 'tropical medicine' stand for today? [[electronic resource] ] : inaugural lecture delivered upon accession to the office of Hoogleraar Tropische Geneeskunde at the University of Amsterdam on 26 January 2011 / / by Martin Peter Grobusch |
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Amsterdam, : Vossiuspers UvA, 2011 |
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1-283-12794-6 |
9786613127945 |
90-485-1457-6 |
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1 online resource (22 p.) |
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Oratiereeks van de Universiteit van Amsterdam ; ; 395 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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What does 'tropical medicine' stand for today?; What are the origins of 'Tropical Medicine'?; What does 'Tropical Medicine' encompass today?; Tropical Medicine is geographical medicine; Where and how does the Tropencentrum within theAMC fit into the picture?; What are our core tasks and other activities?; A word of thanks; Notes |
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The Tropics' in geographical and astronomical terms simply refers to the area between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; Tropical Medicine as a discipline, however, whose origins date back at least to the age of exploration, remains ill-defined and encompasses a wealth of different medical specialties and scientific areas, forming altogether the highly dynamic field of Medicine in the Tropics. The Tropencentrum within Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS at the Amsterdam Medical Center contributes together with numerous partners and collaborators worldwide to the broad field of Tr |
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