The Future Of University Education

Author : Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319468945

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The Future of University Education by Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki Pdf

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.

Author : Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317436355

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Education Is Not an App by Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees Pdf

Whilst much has been written about the doors that technology can open for students, less has been said about its impact on teachers and professors. Although technology undoubtedly brings with it huge opportunities within higher education, there is also the fear that it will have a negative effect both on faculty and on teaching standards. Education Is Not an App offers a bold and provocative analysis of the economic context within which educational technology is being implemented, not least the financial problems currently facing higher education institutions around the world. The book emphasizes the issue of control as being a key factor in whether educational technology is used for good purposes or bad purposes, arguing that technology has great potential if placed in caring hands. Whilst it is a guide to the newest developments in education technology, it is also a book for those faculty, technology professionals, and higher education policy-makers who want to understand the economic and pedagogical impact of technology on professors and students. It advocates a path into the future based on faculty autonomy, shared governance, and concentration on the university’s traditional role of promoting the common good. Offering the first critical, in-depth assessment of the political economy of education technology, this book will serve as an invaluable guide to concerned faculty, as well as to anyone with an interest in the future of higher education.

Author : Stephen James Marshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811076206

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Shaping the University of the Future by Stephen James Marshall Pdf

This book focuses on developing an understanding of the complex interplay of forces acting on individual universities and higher education systems to enable leaders and practitioners to take purposeful and strategic action. It explores the challenging landscape of higher education and the pressures that are reshaping the university as a societal institution, describing the complex interplay of technological, sociological, political and economic forces driving change. The issues analysed are global in scope, reflecting the diversity of contexts, but also the common nature of the challenges facing institutions individually and collectively. The analysis draws on the lessons learnt and evidence from over fifty organisational case studies undertaken by the author over the past decade, exploring organisational change in higher education institutions in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, and on his engagement as president of the ACODE organisation with colleagues responsible for learning technological change in Australasia. The book helps institutions respond to technological change purposefully, in ways that build upon a clear understanding of the complex nature of the existing institution, its students and the organisational context.

Author : Joshua Kim,Edward Maloney
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421436630

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Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education by Joshua Kim,Edward Maloney Pdf

Ultimately, the authors make a compelling case not only for this turn to learning but for creating new pathways for nonfaculty learning careers, understanding the limits of professional organizations and social media, and the need to establish this new interdisciplinary field of learning innovation.

Author : Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319468936

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The Future of University Education by Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki Pdf

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.

Author : Downing, Kevin,Ganotice, Jr., Fraide A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522508205

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World University Rankings and the Future of Higher Education by Downing, Kevin,Ganotice, Jr., Fraide A. Pdf

Delivering quality education to students while remaining competitive at an international level is only one of the many challenges universities face today. To attain their goals, universities must adopt new strategies to achieve academic excellence. World University Rankings and the Future of Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of a ranking system for higher education institutions, providing a thorough overview of the impacts of these rankings on educational quality. Exploring the benefits and challenges of this system in a global context, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, students, administrators, and policy makers interested in the effects of university rankings in the education sector and beyond.

Author : Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317436362

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Education Is Not an App by Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees Pdf

Whilst much has been written about the doors that technology can open for students, less has been said about its impact on teachers and professors. Although technology undoubtedly brings with it huge opportunities within higher education, there is also the fear that it will have a negative effect both on faculty and on teaching standards. Education Is Not an App offers a bold and provocative analysis of the economic context within which educational technology is being implemented, not least the financial problems currently facing higher education institutions around the world. The book emphasizes the issue of control as being a key factor in whether educational technology is used for good purposes or bad purposes, arguing that technology has great potential if placed in caring hands. Whilst it is a guide to the newest developments in education technology, it is also a book for those faculty, technology professionals, and higher education policy-makers who want to understand the economic and pedagogical impact of technology on professors and students. It advocates a path into the future based on faculty autonomy, shared governance, and concentration on the university’s traditional role of promoting the common good. Offering the first critical, in-depth assessment of the political economy of education technology, this book will serve as an invaluable guide to concerned faculty, as well as to anyone with an interest in the future of higher education.

Author : Kurt W. Clausen,Glenda Black
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780228002376

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The Future of Action Research in Education by Kurt W. Clausen,Glenda Black Pdf

While the action research community across Canada is a vibrant one, it remains scattered, dismissed as rootless and still unproven. This book illuminates action research as a vital and long-established Canadian perspective, taking stock of its use in education by a wide array of scholars and practitioners. Reflecting an inclusive range of viewpoints from twenty-two scholars across the nation, chapters show without question that action research - encompassing collaborative, iterative, and practice-based research - is a growing field in Canada. Authors bring a range of experiences that speak to the many facets of this movement. They discuss historical foundations, individual and large-scale projects dealing with a multitude of subject areas and educational practices, and participatory methods that speak to the discipline's capacity to engage with the pressing social issues of our time. A timely intervention that threads the field together and serves as both a reference and a guide to further work, The Future of Action Research in Education draws clear links between the past and future and maps bold new directions for this approach.

Author : Kevin Carey
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594634048

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The End of College by Kevin Carey Pdf

"The rise of the internet, new technologies, and free and open higher education are radically altering college forever, and this book explores the paradigm changes that will affect students, parents, educators and employers as it explains how we can take advantage of the new opportunities ahead"--

Author : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136682087

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The Future University by Ronald Barnett Pdf

Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014! As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university’s mission has changed. Official reviews and debates often forget to inquire into the purposes and responsibilities of universities, and how they are changing. Where these matters are addressed, they are rarely pursued in depth, and rarely go beyond current circumstances. Those who care about the university’s role in society are left looking for a renewed sense of purpose regarding its goals and aspirations. The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university’s future. They consider the history of the university, its current status as an active player in local governments, cultures, and markets, and where these trajectories may lead. What does it mean to be a university in the twenty-first century? What could the university become? What limitations do they face, and what opportunities might lie ahead? This volume in the International Studies in Higher Education series offers bold and imaginative possibilities.

Author : Kenneth A Grant,Dan Remenyi,Shawren Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1912764652

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The University of the Future by Kenneth A Grant,Dan Remenyi,Shawren Singh Pdf

Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn,Ben Nelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262536196

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Building the Intentional University by Stephen M. Kosslyn,Ben Nelson Pdf

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Author : Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470730621

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The Future of Higher Education by Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry Pdf

A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.

Author : Sjur Bergan,Tony Gallagher,Ronaldo Munck,Hilligje van’t Land
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287188236

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Higher education's response to the Covid-19 pandemic by Sjur Bergan,Tony Gallagher,Ronaldo Munck,Hilligje van’t Land Pdf

A particularly timely book, given the high proportion of international students and staff in higher education Public health was the immediate concern when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in Asia, then in Europe and other parts of the world. The response of our education systems is no less vital. Higher education has played a major role in responding to the pandemic and it must help shape a better, more equitable and just post-Covid-19 world. This book explores the various responses of higher education to the pandemic across Europe and North America, with contributions also from Africa, Asia and South America. The contributors write from the perspective of higher education leaders with institutional responsibility, as well as from that of public authorities or specialists in specific aspects of higher education policy and practice. Some contributions analyse how specific higher education institutions reacted, while others reflect on the impact of Covid-19 on key issues such as internationalisation, finance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy, inclusion and equality and public responsibility. The book describes the various ways in which higher education is facing the Covid-19 pandemic. It is designed to help universities, specifically their staff and students as well as their partners, contribute to a more sustainable and democratic future.

Author : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415881920

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The Future University by Ronald Barnett Pdf

The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university's future.