and Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Concept of Near—Optimal Control -- Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization -- Optimal Control of Parallel—Machine Systems -- Optimal Control of Dynamic Flowshops -- Optimal Controls of Dynamic Jobshops -- Risk-Sensitive Control -- Near—Optimal Controls -- Near—Optimal Control of Pa…
Roadmap to Become a World-Class University -- International Advisory Boards in the World -- Excellence as Duty -- Excellence in Education -- Excellence in Research -- Excellence in Serving Society and Mankind -- Excellence in Strategic Planning -- Excellence in Innovation and Knowledge Economy -- Excellence in International Cooperation -- Change towards Excellence.Open AccessThis book written b…
About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- PART 1: Assessment in Education: Implications for Leaders -- PART 2: Assessment at the District/School Leadership Level -- PART 3: Leadership Assessment-related Knowledge and Behaviours -- Index.This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student asses…
1. Implementing Assessment for Learning: Theoretical and Practical Issues -- PART I: Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems -- 2. Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems: A Few Reasons to Be Optimistic -- 3. Making Meaning of Assessment Policy in Australia through Teacher Assessment Conversations -- 4. Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Au…
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fon…
The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …
1. International School Principal Research. Social Democratic Welfare Countries -- 2. Denmark - Danish School leadership between welfare and competition -- 3. Iceland - Research on Principals in Iceland -- 4. Finland - Finnish Principal -- 5. Norway - Researching Norwegian Principals -- 6. Sweden - Swedish School Leadership Research - an Important but Neglected Area -- Former East European Coun…
(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.
Jurnal Bina Praja Vol. 10 Issue 1 May 2018 (Rak 8-P : Kebijakan Publik & Perempuan)
Invited Papers -- Evolution of Enterprise Information Systems in the Internet Era -- Managing Change — Evolving the EIS Vision -- Automatic Speech Recognition: A Review -- Reasoning with Goals to Engineer Requirements -- Real-Time Knowledge-Based Systems for Enterprise Decision Support and Systems Analysis -- Is Engineering Getting Out of Classical System Engineering -- Databases and Informat…