The Future University

Author : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136682087

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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 : 55,6 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 : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415881920

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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.

Author : Stephen James Marshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Derek Curtis Bok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015017941660

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Universities and the Future of America by Derek Curtis Bok Pdf

Former Harvard president Bok asks what universities can do to promote higher levels of ethical responsibility and help the nation address its urgent social problems and its competitive international position.

Author : Yehuda Elkana,Hannes Kl”pper
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789633860380

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The University in the Twenty-first Century by Yehuda Elkana,Hannes Kl”pper Pdf

This volume addresses the broad spectrum of challenges confronting today?s universities. Elkana and Kl”pper question the very idea and purposes of universities, especially as viewed through curriculum?what is taught, and pedagogy?how it is taught. The reforms recommended in the book focus on undergraduate or bachelor degree programs in all areas of study, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, technical fields, as well as law, medicine, and other professions. The core thesis of this book rests on the emergence of a ?New Enlightenment. This will require a revolution in curriculum and teaching methods in order to translate the academic philosophy of global contextualism into universal practice or application. Are universities willing to revamp teaching in order to foster critical thinking that would serve students their entire lives? This book calls for universities to restructure administratively to become truly integrated, rather than remaining collections of autonomous agencies more committed to competition among themselves than cooperation in the larger interest of learning. ÿ

Author : Geoffrey Nunberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0520204514

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The Future of the Book by Geoffrey Nunberg Pdf

A dozen essays from a July 1994 conference at the University of San Marino argue that a total shift to electronic information media would trigger wrenching social and cultural dislocations. Among their perspectives are the pragmatics of the new, farewell to the information age, toward meta-reading, hypertext and authorship, and the body of the text. They avoid the usual fetish arguments such as curling up in bed or leather bindings and pipes. Novelist Umberto Eco provides an afterward. No index or word search. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Joshua Kim,Edward Maloney
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed,Abdelaziz Bouras,Mohammed Al-Salem,Nathalie Younan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031201868

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The Sustainable University of the Future by Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed,Abdelaziz Bouras,Mohammed Al-Salem,Nathalie Younan Pdf

The Sustainable University of the Future discusses the rapid changes taking place within institutions of higher education—changes that have pushed universities to reconsider their traditional policies and plans. The book, which has its origins in the Qatar University Annual Research Forum and Exhibition (QUARFE) event “University of the Future” examines the many ways universities are trying to keep pace with this transformation, despite regional and international challenges. The book looks at the role of universities in meeting the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the impact of Industry 4.0, the social aspects of University 4.0, and the future of research-based universities. The need to adopt modern programs and tools is stressed, and ways to anticipate and plan for future challenges are explored.

Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn,Ben Nelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262343701

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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 : Debaditya Bhattacharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429807657

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The University Unthought by Debaditya Bhattacharya Pdf

Why is it important to have a revolutionary critical pedagogy? What are the new inter/disciplinary engagements possible within the university? What will it be like to live and learn in this university of the future? Drawing on these essential questions, this volume explores the political future(s) of the university. It does not take a simplistic recourse to the tenets of liberal democracy but seeks a more engaged positioning of the university space within everyday practices of the social. It cross-examines the history of this ‘ideal’ university’s relationship with the banal everyday, the ‘apolitical’ outside and what exceeds intellectual reason, to finally question if such historicizing of the university is necessary at all. Along with its companion The Idea of the University: Histories and Contexts, this brave new intervention makes a compelling foray into the political future(s) of the university. It will be of interest to academics, educators and students of the social sciences and humanities, especially education. It will also be of use to policy-makers and education analysts, and be central to the concerns of any citizen.

Author : Kevin Carey
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Downing, Kevin,Ganotice, Jr., Fraide A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.