This book explores an area that has been somewhat overlooked in the literature to date – the current status and future trends of English education in Oman.  Meer

This book is one of the first of its kind to examine the aspirations of refugee background students and accompanies them as they journey through the on-shore stage of settlement, enrolment and participation in the Australian education system.  Meer

This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye’s theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it.  Meer

This book uses an in-depth, phenomenological interview approach to explain the generational characteristics of today’s Chinese university youths and the critical dispositions they believe indispensable in acquiring English as an academic language in and outside school settings.  Meer

This book demonstrates teachers’ and learners’ experiences with big data in education; education and cloud computing; and new technologies for teacher support.  Meer

This book applies formal language and automata theory in the context of Tibetan computational linguistics; further, it constructs a Tibetan-spelling formal grammar system that generates a Tibetan-spelling formal language group, and an automata group that can recognize the language group.  Meer

This book explores foundational theories that have been applied in open and distance education (ODE) research and refined to reflect advances in research and practice.  Meer

This book focuses on information literacy for the younger generation of learners and library readers. It is divided into four sections: 1. Information Literacy for Life; 2.  Meer

This book offers an in-depth investigation of the globalization of higher education at Chinese universities and colleges. The proposed “Global Higher Education Shared Community” model reflects the globalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics in terms of its conceptual, practical and strategic dimensions.  Meer

This book uses practice theory to examine the role of ‘middle-leadership’. In particular, it investigates the practices of ‘leading in the middle’ in the cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political domains – i.  Meer

This book investigates the use of network technologies in research, and explores how such use potentially changes the nature of professional learning between academics.  Meer

This book is a timely document of state-of-the art analytical techniques in the domain of stream cipher design and analysis with a specific cipher, named ZUC.  Meer

This book presents a novel conceptualisation of universal information processing systems based on studies of environmental interaction in both biological and non-biological systems.  Meer

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts.  Meer

Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific is a timely exploration of a global media phenomena that offers a unique perspective on the production, consumption and use of transmedia storytelling in the Asia Pacific region.  Meer

This book examines tensions between the Chinese state and Chinese universities. It looks at the state’s demand for political socialization as a restriction on university autonomy and the university’s promotion of academic development through promoting academic freedom and fostering critical thinkers, using Jour University in PRC, as a case study.  Meer

Financial Markets in Hong Kong is a unique guide to the workings and the legal framework governing all aspects of Hong Kong's financial markets. Drawing upon the extensive experience of its contributors to present a lucid insight into the intricacies of the matrix behind the functioning of financial markets, it is possibly the only book to cover the spectrum ranging from a discussion on the regulatory framework to the various measures implemented to facilitate the further development of the markets to the important role assumed by professional advisers.  Meer

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language? To do so, it presents a centering theory-based computational approach to discourse analysis concerning Chinese bei passive sentences, disposal ba constructions, ditransitive gei sentences, and locative fang sentences.  Meer

This edited book is a collection of papers, written by language assessment professionals to reflect the guidance of Professor Lyle F. Bachman, one of the leading second language assessment experts in the field for decades.  Meer

Examines the history of mathematics education in Russia and its relevance to mathematics education throughout the world. This title also examines specific Russian programs in mathematics, their impact and methodological innovations.  Meer