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Dr. Patrick Blessinger is an adjunct associate professor of education at St. John's University, a math and science teacher with the New York State Education Department, and chief research scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (in consultative status with the United Nations).
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University Partnerships for Community and School System Development
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are par...
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This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also university-school (basic education) collaborative partnerships to improve local school systems. The increasing pressures to remove access and participation barriers, and to mitigate practices that restrict the free flow of education across borders, have created a growing global space for educational services of all types. As a result, traditional institutional boundaries have expanded to better respond to the increasing pressures placed on them by the growing demand for higher education services. The boundaries between educational institutions and other entities such as government, business, and non-profit organizations have become more fluid which has resulted in increased involvement by institutions, faculty, and students in activities outside the traditional boundaries of the classroom. This edited volume will specifically explore university partnerships for community and school system development.
Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems
The poems in this collection deal with the real life-worlds of professors, instructors, lecturers...
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The poems in this collection deal with the real life-worlds of professors, instructors, lecturers, teachers, and others working in education. This volume covers contemporary teaching experiences in education, including the many roles that teachers play such as instructing, lecturing, mentoring, facilitating, coaching, guiding, and leading. This volume covers the manifold life experiences and perspectives of being and working as a teacher in education and the epiphanies experienced in that role. This volume gives creative voice to the full range of experiences by teachers, students, and others, and empowers readers with inspiration and personal agency as they evolve as self-creating, self-determining authors of their own lives, both personally and professionally. The poems in this volume are largely based on teachers meaningful experiences in and out of the classroom, and will provide artistic inspiration and creative insight to others who currently work as teachers or those students who are preparing to be professors, instructors, and teachers or those students who simply enjoy the creative voice of others.
Emerging Directions in Doctoral Education
This volume examines how universities and colleges around the world are developing innovative way...
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This volume examines how universities and colleges around the world are developing innovative ways to provide doctoral education, including new theories and models of doctoral education and the impact of changes in government and/or accreditation policy on practices in doctoral education. Specifically, this volume looks at the emerging trends in student selection practices, research topic selection, supervision practices, and dissertation review and approval process across a range of disciplines across different institutional types across different countries. Seeking to understand the current landscape of how universities are preparing the next generation of researchers, scholars, scientists, and university faculty, Emerging Directions in Doctoral Education is a must-read for faculty, researchers, accreditation agencies, doctoral students and policymakers.
Inquiry-Based Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Programs: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered active learning environment where deep learnin...
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Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered active learning environment where deep learning is cultivated by a process of inquiry owned by the learner. It has roots in a constructivist educational philosophy and is oriented around three components: 1) exploration and discovery (e.g. problem-based learning, open meaning-making), 2) authentic investigations using contextualized learning (e.g. field studies, case studies), and 3) research-based approach (e.g. research-based learning, project-based learning). IBL begins with an authentic and contextualized problem scenario where learners identify their own issues and questions and the teacher serves as guide in the learning process. It encourages self-regulated learning because the responsibility is on learners to determine issues and research questions and the resources they need to address them. This way learning occurs across all learning domains. This volume covers many issues and concepts of how IBL can be applied to STEM programs. It serves as a conceptual and practical resource and guide for educators, offering practical examples of IBL in action and diverse strategies on how to implement IBL in different contexts.
Creative Learning in Higher Education: International Perspectives and Approaches
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Linda Watts
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Patrick Blessinger
This book provides higher education faculty and administrators a scholarly resource on the most s...
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This book provides higher education faculty and administrators a scholarly resource on the most salient aspects and emerging trends in creative learning in higher education today. International contributors explore ways to foster creativity in any student, regardless of academic discipline or demographic characteristics and demonstrate that creativity is a skill all students can and should learn. Chapters analyzes how different countries and cultures implement creative learning, exploring issues of instruction, assessment, and ultimately how these practices are transforming learning. This important book helps higher education professionals understand and cultivate creative learning across disciplines in any college and university setting.
Democratizing higher education: International comparative perspectives.
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Patrick Blessinger
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John Anchan
Inquiry-based learning for multidisciplinary programs: A conceptual and practical resource for educators
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Patrick Blessinger
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John M. Carfora
Inquiry-based learning for faculty and institutional development: A conceptual and practical resource for educator
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Patrick Blessinger
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John M. Carfora
Inquiry-based learning for the arts, humanities, and social sciences: A conceptual and practical resource for educators
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Patrick Blessinger
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John M. Carfora
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Classroom Technologies: Classroom Response Systems and Mediated Discourse Technologies
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in e-Learning Environments: Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Multimedia Technologies: Video Annotation, Multimedia Applications, Videoconferencing and Transmedia Storytelling
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies
Meaning-Centered Education: International Perspectives and Explorations in Higher Education
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios, and other Social Networking Services
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and...
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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services' uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include applying positive psychology and cognitive styles in user design, designing outcome based curricula using student personality types, engaging second language students through electronic writing tasks, applying psychological variables on the academic use of social media, using social media to motivate students to take charge of their own learning processes, and creatively using technology to enhance teacher education. This volume will also discuss a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies in higher education institutions.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs, and WebQuests
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs and We...
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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs and WebQuests' uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how these technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills, student subject awareness, and literacy; create engaging communities of practice; and are experiential learning tools. Chapter subjects include the design for a robust use of wikis, using blogs to enhance student engagement by creating a community of practice around a course, integrating blogs across a range of college level courses, publishing activist biographies on Wikipedia, using blogs to increase off-campus student engagement, using video and wiki technology to engage learners in large international cohorts, using wikis as an experiential learning tool, consuming and constructing knowledge through WebQuests, and rethinking WebQuests in second language teacher education. This volume will also discuss frameworks for deploying and assessing the effectiveness of these technologies.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming and Simulation
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming, a...
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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and Simulation' uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how gaming, simulation, and virtualization are being used to improve teamwork and leadership skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and as experiential learning tools to create inter-cultural, multi-perspective, and global experiences. Chapters include how to increase learner engagement using serious games, using game features for classroom engagement, using client-based peer assessment in multi-role, whole-enterprise simulations, using virtual worlds to develop teacher candidate skills, enhancing leadership skills through virtual simulation, using online video simulation for educational leadership, using augmented reality in education, using open source software in education, using educational robotics laboratories to enhance active learning, and utilizing the virtual learning environment to encourage faculty reflection. This volume will also discuss a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies.
The Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions
The organizational culture of academic higher educational institutions was analyzed using the Hum...
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The organizational culture of academic higher educational institutions was analyzed using the Human Synergistics International (HSI) Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®) Survey. Cultural norms characteristic of Passive/Defensive and Aggressive/Defensive behavioral styles were overrepresented, while those characteristic of Constructive styles were underrepresented, as compared to Ideal profiles. The results reflect predominance of task-centered over people-centered organizational orientations and of lower-order (security) over higher-order (satisfaction) needs. Both current and ideal profiles were derived from the responses of higher education faculty and administrators who are active at non-profit or for-profit organizations worldwide. Targets for cultural change were identified, and recommendations were developed to assist higher education institutions approach their ideal organizational cultures.
Conference Presentations by Patrick Blessinger
Considerate Leadership as a measure of effectiveness in Medical and Higher Education: Analysis of Supervisory/Managerial Leadership
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Rana Zeine
Edward Daly
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Patrick Blessinger
Medical and graduate students around the world are subjected to humiliation and workplace aggress...
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Medical and graduate students around the world are subjected to humiliation and workplace aggression including belittlement, bullying and abusive supervision practices which reflect defensive organizational cultures. We and others have previously shown that higher education institutions, including medical teaching centers, have detrimentally high levels of aggressive/defensive and passive/defensive cultural styles as measured by the Human Synergistics International Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI® & OCI-Ideal®) Surveys. Central to effective pre-clinical and clinical training are supervisory/managerial leadership skills which are negatively impacted by the current higher education operating cultures. In this paper, we analyze Consideration, which assumes empathy in supportive/participative leadership communications. Faculty and administrators at public and private higher education institutions were surveyed using the Human Synergistics International Organizational Effectiveness Inventory® (OEI®) Survey. Results revealed Consideration scores undesirably below both the Historical Average and the Constructive Benchmark in for-profit and not-for-profit higher education institutions. Recommendations are discussed for overcoming resistance to change in academic centers, replacing defensive norms with constructive cultural styles, and incorporating considerate leadership practices into the supervisor-trainee relationship in higher education.
Customer Service Focus and Mission Articulation as measures of Effectiveness in Higher Education Institutions: Driving Student Success
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Rana Zeine
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Patrick Blessinger
Customer service focus and mission articulation are fundamental measures of organizational effect...
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Customer service focus and mission articulation are fundamental measures of organizational effectiveness reflecting the extent to which institutional values are manifested in structures, systems, human resources and outcomes.  Many higher education institutions are interested in better satisfying the needs of students and their families, alumni and benefactors, governments and employers, to fulfill the aspirations of society at large.  To analyze mission articulation and customer service focus in higher education, 52 faculty members and administrators from institutions in more than 16 countries were surveyed using the Human Synergistics International Organizational Effectiveness Inventory® (OEI®) Survey.  Results revealed that scores from total respondents fell below the Constructive Benchmarks for both parameters, and below the Historical Average (50th percentile) for customer service focus. Subgroup analysis revealed that scores from private- and public not-for-profit institutions fell below both the Historical Averages (50th percentiles) and the Constructive Benchmarks for each of the two parameters.  By contrast, for-profits approached the Constructive Benchmarks and public for-profits scored significantly higher than not-for-profit subgroups.  For customer service focus, scores from faculty, male and female subgroups fell below the Historical Average, while administrators approached the Constructive Benchmark scoring significantly higher than the faculty subgroup.  We recommend strengtheing the relationship between students and their higher education institutions by improving mission articulation and sharpening the focus on student educational needs and outcomes.
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