Quality, Mobility & Globalization in the Higher Education System - A Comparative Look at the Challenges of Academic Teaching (Hardcover)

This book deals with the challenges of academic teaching in higher education with regard to quality, mobility, and globalisation. The articles reflect a unique interdisciplinary effort at collaboration, generated by colleagues and partners who joined together to form a community that aimed to chart the course of academic teaching. The book is divided into five parts: Part One - Academic teaching and learning; Part Two - Academic teaching and learning in the humanities; Part Three - Teaching and learning in engineering and architecture; Part Four - New approaches and technologies in physics instruction: Inquiry-based education in a post-industrial society; Part Five - Teaching and learning in the health sciences.