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  • A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals

    Toxic Exposure of US Marines

    by Robert O'Dowd ...
    2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is formed as an unintentional by-product of incomplete combustion. It may be released to the environment during the combustion of fossil fuels and wood, and during the incineration of municipal and industrial wastes. It causes chloracne in humans, a severe acne-like condition. This chemical has been shown to be very toxic in animal studies, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Internationalising Higher Education and the Role of Virtual Exchange

    by Robert O'Dowd ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This volume introduces Virtual Exchange (VE) as an innovative form of online intercultural learning and investigates the myriad of ways VE is being carried out across universities, ultimately arguing for its integration into university internationalisation policies and course curricula.Against the backdrop of increased digitalisation initiatives throughout universities given the effects of the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Online Intercultural Exchange

    Policy, Pedagogy, Practice

    Edited by Robert O'Dowd, Tim Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
    This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges in university contexts such as internationalisation, virtual mobility and intercultural foreign language education. Since the 1990s, educators have been using virtual interaction to bring their classes into contact ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Plurilingual Corpus on Telecollaboration in Third Languages

    by Melinda Ann Dooly Owenby, Robert O’Dowd ...
    Series Book 5 - Telecollaborative learning and Virtual Exchange in Education
    Telecollaboration has been applied in foreign language education for more than two decades. This corpus study on telecollaboration in Third Language Learning has been carried out in institutional (CEFR) and non-institutional settings following the principle of autonomy in the framework of Higher Education implementing online tandems and student recordings in order to analyze discourse patterns. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

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    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
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  • The Battle of Midway (True Combat)

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  • A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL

    Putting Pluriliteracies into Practice

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  • Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

    A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen ...
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  • Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being

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