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Higher education reformed /
Specially commissioned contributions edited by some of the most respected academics currently working in the field of higher education, drawing the situation as it is now and looking forward to the developments of the coming years. It asks questions such as will 'Dearing' prove to be littl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Falmer Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | New millennium series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 A Connecticut Yankee?; Definition of the 'Modern University'; Research; Differentiation; Quality Control; Government; Post-war Developments; The Search for Revenue; A Connecticut Yankee?; Higher Education: Reactive and Proactive; The Profession versus Institution; References; 2 Strategy and Management for University Development; Introduction; The Environment of Universities; Academic Structure; Strategy; Academic Development; Research; Teaching and Learning; Technology: The Networked University; Management.
- ConclusionReferences; 3 The Distributed University; A Comprehensive University; The Economic Base; The Learning Revolution; Conservatism-the Higher Education Disease; Supplier-driven Higher Education; Market-led Further Education; Cyber-solutions; A Learning Community; 4 Plato.com ; Competitiveness and the Academy; British Aerospace and the Virtual University: Establishing the Framework; Corporate Survival as a Learning Community; The Corporate University as a Coherent Strategy for Competitiveness; Plato.com: The Cyber World is Approaching Fast; References; 5 Students as Consumers.
- IntroductionThe Changing Student Consumer-Beyond the Academic Playpen; The Universalization of Higher Education; Credential Saturation of the Labour Market; The Informational Division of Labour and the Knowledge Industry; Demonopolization in the Knowledge Industry; Internet Technology and its Limits; The Americanization of Higher Education-Consumer Sovereignty; Towards a Cut-and-paste Higher Education Curriculum; Intellectual Capital as Personal Property-the Political Economy of Student Consumption; Conclusion; References; 6 The Globalization of Higher Education; Introduction.
- Drivers of Change in the University of the New MillenniumDemand for Higher Education; Internationalization of Universities; Offshore Campuses; Technology; Universitas 21; Accreditation and Quality Assurance; A Vision of the Culture of the University in the New Millennium; References; 7 Reconfiguring the University; The fall?; Supercomplexity; A Leadership for Supercomplexity; Research for Supercomplexity; Teaching for Supercomplexity; Conclusion: A University for Supercomplexity; Note; References; 8 New Technologies, Students and the Curriculum; The Role and Purposes of the University.
- Technology Drivers-Academic BrakesInformation Access; Curricular Change; Expert Teams; Alternative Providers; Wider Participation in Higher Education; New Directions; Countering the Mere Access to Information with a Conversational Model; Delivering Individual Teaching to Larger Numbers; Disseminating Research-based Teaching; Creating the Responsive Curriculum; Enabling Individual Creativity through Adaptable Learning Activity Modules; Concluding Points; References; 9 A Profession for the New Millennium?; References; 10 The Future of Research; Research and the Diminishing Rate of Return.