The Global Virtual University

ISBN-13: 9780415287012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 166 str.

John Tiffin; Lalita Rajasingham

Opis

This text is about the shift from the contemporary university of the nation state to the global virtual university of the future. The authors launched their idea of virtual universities on the internet with the publication of In Search of the Virtual Class in 1995. Since then, virtual universities have multiplied worldwide. This book, based on material gathered from research projects carried out in Japan, Brazil, USA, Australia and New Zealand, describes key aspects of the global university and presents a paradigm from which it might be constructed. the future will be virtual, global and student supported, taking advantage of such technological advances as broadband telecommunications, artificial intelligence and HyperReality.

Spis treści

1. The universals of a university 2. Universities have IT 3. Instruction in universities 4. New academics for old 5. Old students for new 6. Play the game: knowledge in universities 7. The problem's the thing: Research in a global virtual university 8. The curriculum of globalisation 9. Global corporate

O autorze

John Tiffin is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Lalita Rajasingham is Senior Lecturer and Director of programmes in Communication in the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.