This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues.

Anthony Smith, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Times Higher Education Supplement

The Virtual University? brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education. Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have altered universities, affecting the way they are managed, their relations with the corporate world, their employees, and their users/customers/students. Has a culture of collegiality been replaced by one of managerialism? Has the liberal/national university been replaced by the global/virtual one? What changes does the digital world bring to the practice and experience of education? The book refuses to adopt a narrow focus towards its subject, rejecting technology-centred and education policy-focused approaches. Arguing for a need to situate changes in higher education in the broad contexts of globalization, the political economy, and historical trends, the book combines close attention to the complexities of on-the-ground changes in higher education with sensitivity towards the most consequential contextual pressures. The book lifts consideration of higher education into the mainstream of social transformations in the twenty-first century, arguing that a wide debate about changes in knowledge, markets, and management is demanded since the 'virtual university' concerns the character of intellectual culture itself.
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Higher education is changing - in scope, style, technology, and objectives. This book looks at the impact of information technologies on higher education and the reorganization of universities in more managerial and business directions. The book combines empirical and analytical chapters from scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
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PART I: THE NEW GLOBAL CONTEXT ; 1. The Virtual University? ; 2. Globalizing the Academy ; 3. The University and Modernity: A History of the Present ; 4. The University in the 'Global' Economy ; PART II: PRACTICES AND POLICIES ; 5. Working Through the Work of Making Work Mobile ; 6. The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective ; 7. New Managerialism: The Manager-Academic and Technologies of Management in Universities--Looking Forward to Virtuality? ; 8. Exporting Management - Neo-Imperialism and Global Consumerism ; 9. Saving the Soul of the University: What is to be Done? ; 10. Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University ; PART III: PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES ; 11. Marketizing Higher Education: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Counter Strategies ; 12. Digital Discourses, Online Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Techno-Cultures ; 13. Rehearsal for the Revolution ; 14. Some Consequences of the New Information and Communications Technologies for Higher Education ; Afterword: What Will be the Global Identity of the University?
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This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues.
`The book maybe useful to academics involved in university management roles, to professional managers and strategists in the forefront of education industry as well as to a wider academic community tracing the orientation in the university in transition.' Journal of Documentation, vol. 59 no. 6 `The Virtual University? Knowledge Markets and Management, presents a variety of aspects, features, approaches and achievements in changing university - virtual or global university phenomena.' Journal of Documentation, vol. 59 no. 6
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Situates the debate about the future and function of the university in the mainstream of contemporary social analysis Features research from major social analysts in both the US and the UK Goes beyond technology-centred and education policy-focused approaches Analyses changes in higher education within the broad contexts of globalization, the political economy, and historical trends Essential reading for those seeking to understand changes in higher education
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Kevin Robins studied at the universities of Sussex, York, and Kent. He is Professor of Communications, Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include The Technical Fix: Education, Computers, and Industry (1989, with Frank Webster), Into the Image (1996), Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Frank Webster), and Spaces of Identity (1995, with David Morley). Frank Webster was educated at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Sociology at City University. He was previously Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham (1999-2002). Recent publications are: Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Kevin Robins), Theories of the Information Society (2002), and Culture and Politics in the Information Age (2001).
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Situates the debate about the future and function of the university in the mainstream of contemporary social analysis Features research from major social analysts in both the US and the UK Goes beyond technology-centred and education policy-focused approaches Analyses changes in higher education within the broad contexts of globalization, the political economy, and historical trends Essential reading for those seeking to understand changes in higher education
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199257935
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
498 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
344

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Kevin Robins studied at the universities of Sussex, York, and Kent. He is Professor of Communications, Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include The Technical Fix: Education, Computers, and Industry (1989, with Frank Webster), Into the Image (1996), Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Frank Webster), and Spaces of Identity (1995, with David Morley). Frank Webster was educated at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Sociology at City University. He was previously Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham (1999-2002). Recent publications are: Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Kevin Robins), Theories of the Information Society (2002), and Culture and Politics in the Information Age (2001).