The Virtual University?

Knowledge, Markets, and Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924557-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robins, Kevin

Webster, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: The New Global Context

- 1: Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: The Virtual University?

- 2: John Urry: Globalizing the Academy

- 3: Gerard Delanty: The University and Modernity: A History of the Present

- 4: Masao Miyoshi: The University in the 'Global' Economy

- Part II: Practices and Policies

- 5: James Cornford and Neil Pollock: Working Through the Work of Making Work Mobile

- 6: Charles Crook: The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective

- 7: Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem: New Managerialism: The Manager-Academic and Technologies of Management in Universities---Looking Forward to Virtuality?

- 8: Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy: Exporting Management -- Neo-Imperialism and Global Consumerism

- 9: Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy: Saving the Soul of the University: What is to be Done?

- 10: Philip Agre: Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University

- Part III: Prospects and Possibilities

- 11: Les Levidow: Marketizing Higher Education: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Counter Strategies

- 12: Tim Luke: Digital Discourses, Online Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Techno-Cultures

- 13: David F. Noble: Rehearsal for the Revolution

- 14: Martin Trow: Some Consequences of the New Information and Communications Technologies for Higher Education

- Afterword: What Will be the Global Identity of the University?

Über Autor(innen)

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).