Böcker utgivna av IGI Global

Explores the controversial topic of mobile phones in the English language arts classroom, focusing on comparing the opportunities that they afford students, as well as the negative effects they can have on learning. Chapters examine learning outcomes, best practices, and practical applications for using mobile phones.

"This book explores the impact of new information and communications technologies on event management and marketing"--

Examines, unfolds, and develops approaches to co-production and implementation as dynamic, processual, collaborative, sensemaking, and as requiring and resulting in capacity building and learning. Moreover, the book examines new approaches to engage citizens and public sector actors in collaborative and co-productive processes.

Presents innovative research on the methods and applications of information and communications technologies on almost all facets of hospitality and tourism-related businesses, including hotels, restaurants, and other tourism areas. The book highlights topics including digital marketing, artificial intelligence, and event tourism.

Provides an overview of what has been happening over the last ten years in higher education in South-East Asia. The book also works to solve challenges in modern education such as the impacts of digitalization, globalization, and Generation Y and Z learning styles.

"This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to teacher education within the framework of an International Network on Education, a funded research project. Our goal is to provide an overview of how innovation and research experiences can contribute to enhance teacher education programs"--

Focuses on aspects of Industrial Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. The book introduces new models and 'informal' algorithms that solve social-choice problems, introduces new mathematical proofs, and introduces new algorithms that prove that the Myerson-Satterthwaite Impossibility Theorem is wrong or inapplicable.

"This book offers a detailed description of the lives of immigrant women across the globe, featuring the voices of women as they describe their experiences living in the diaspora either with their families or alone"--

A comprehensive reference source that focuses on research-based pedagogical practices for teaching young English language learners and immigrants. The book specifically looks at strategies across the curriculum including social-emotional development, parent involvement, language development, and more.

Examines the theoretical and practical implications that should be put in place for second language writers and offers critical futuristic and linguistic perspectives on teaching writing to speakers of other languages. The book covers such topics as EFL, ESL, composition, digital storytelling, and forming identity.

Documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. Chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration.

Discusses issues related to the visualization of scientific concepts, picturing processes, and products, as well as the role of computing in advancing visual literacy skills. The book contains descriptions, theories, and examples of visual and music-based solutions concerning natural or technological events that are shaping present-day reality.

Provides global models and best practices of creative cities worldwide and illustrates different theoretical blueprints for the better understanding of contemporary global society. While defining key concepts of creative cities, global society, and creative class, the book also clarifies the main differences between hubs, parks, and precincts.

Presents new research methodologies in the social science field and provides a broad introduction to the methodology of social research in its main theoretical foundations as well as in its practical applications. Readers will develop a critical thinking attitude about social problems which in turn will sharpen their analytic approach to research.

Including the voices of those involved in gun violence prevention, as well as interviews with experts in dealing with prevention, preparation, and emergency response, this book centres on forthcoming themes such as licensing systems of firearms, smart gun technologies, assault weapons and weapons bans, and the portrayal of mass shootings in media.

Focuses on probability examined from an educational point of view and the implementation of a very concrete operational approach in the classroom. Two main pillars are examined within this book: concrete objects and IT tools used to perform simulations for probability teaching.

Considers the construction of spaces of various dimensions from two to any finite dimension n, taking into account the indicated conditions, including zooming in on shapes, properties of geometric figures of higher dimensions, which have no analogue in three-dimensional space.

Investigates the history, philosophy, and major themes of andragogy and how they may contribute to helping practitioners to design and facilitate adult and organisational learning. Encompassing the background, uses, and future of andragogy, this book is for teachers, administrators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academics, and students.

Presents an information extraction mechanism that can process many kinds of inputs, realize the type of text, and understand the percentage of the keywords that has to be stored. This mechanism then supports information extraction and information categorization mechanisms.

Explores the recruitment, promotion, retention process, and the barriers and resilience needed for Hispanic women/Latinas in higher education leadership roles. The book uses data collected via a qualitative, phenomenological research study including open-ended interviews, field notes, biographical questionnaires, and a reflective journal.

Presents research on how to use HONNs in control and recognition areas and explains why HONNs can approximate any nonlinear data to any degree of accuracy, their ease of use, and how they can have better nonlinear data recognition accuracy than SAS nonlinear procedures.

A critical reference source that proposes a new pedagogical-learning paradigm that guides students in the formation of an active, logical-sequential, intuitive, and creative thinking that directs them towards problem-solving and starts students with computational thinking and programming in a natural way.

Discusses advancing approaches within the IT auditing process, as well as the necessary tasks in sufficiently initiating, inscribing, and completing IT audit engagement. Applying the recommended practices contained in this book will help IT leaders improve IT audit practice areas to safeguard information assets more effectively.

Presents research on studying the development of cybersecurity practices through historical and sociological analyses. While highlighting topics such as zero trust networks, geopolitical analysis, and cyber warfare, this publication explores the evolution of cyber threats, as well as improving security methods and their socio-technological impact.

Focuses on taking advantages from text and web mining in order to address the issues of recommendation and visualization in web searching. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as navigational searching, resource identification, and ambiguous queries, this book is designed for professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

Explores the characteristics and models of a teacherpreneur, their advantages and disadvantages, and examines how they can be used by current classroom teachers and school administrators to improve and enhance the teaching profession. The book features a wide range of topics, including curriculum design, student outcomes, and ethics.