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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 Has a culture of collegiality been replaced by one of managerialism? Has the liberal/national university been replaced by the global/virtual one?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.
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 Has a culture of collegiality been replaced by one of managerialism? Has the liberal/national university been replaced by the global/virtual one?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.
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
Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: Afterword: What Will be the Global
Identity of the University?
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).
`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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