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9780415287029

The Global Virtual University

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415287029

  • ISBN10:

    0415287022

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2003-09-29
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Summary

Based on material gathered from research projects carried out in the US, Japan, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, this unique and visionary book describes key aspects of the global university and presents the paradigm from which it might be constructed. Leading figures in this field, the authors argue that the universities of the future will be virtual, global, and student supported, taking advantage of such technological advances as broadband telecommunications, artificial intelligence and HyperReality.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables ix
Foreword xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xix
1 The universals of a university 1(19)
Introduction
1(2)
The university paradigm
3(3)
Paradigms on paradigms
6(7)
Paradigms are communication systems
13(1)
Universities are educational communication systems
14(2)
How universities differ as communication systems
16(1)
What then is a university?
17(1)
What no one dares say
18(2)
2 Universities have IT 20(18)
Introduction
20(1)
IT has only just begun
21(1)
What difference does IT make?
21(2)
Is it a real university if it is asynchronous?
23(3)
Narrowband Internet and virtual universities
26(1)
Broadband Internet for virtual universities
27(1)
Avatars
28(2)
Virtual class and HyperClass
30(3)
Artificial intelligence (AI)
33(1)
JITAITs
34(1)
Artifical Life in universities
35(1)
Who gets to play God?
36(2)
3 Instruction in universities 38(19)
Introduction
38(1)
Episteme in university instruction
39(1)
The instructional paradigm of the modem university
40(2)
Organising instruction
42(2)
Paradigm acquisition
44(3)
Syntagm practice
47(1)
In-depth instruction
48(2)
Evaluation and certification
50(1)
Instructional paradigm for a virtual global university of the future
51(4)
HyperSubjects in HyperClasses
55(2)
4 New academics for old 57(13)
Introduction
57(1)
New teachers for old
58(1)
Teaching
59(2)
An academic hierarchy for the future
61(6)
Administration
67(1)
Who are the teachers?
67(3)
5 Old students for new 70(13)
Introduction
70(1)
Growth in student numbers
71(1)
The changing demographic
72(3)
Students are on the right side of the bell curve
75(2)
Who can afford to go to university?
77(1)
Who will control universities?
78(1)
New learning styles
79(1)
Pedagogical JITAITs
80(1)
The physical side of student life
81(1)
Plagiarism
82(1)
6 Play the game: knowledge in universities 83(23)
Introduction
83(1)
What is knowledge in a university?
84(3)
Knowledge is paradigmatic
87(2)
Subject knowledge as a self-organising system
89(3)
University libraries and explicit knowledge on the Internet
92(3)
Multilingual knowledge and the Internet
95(1)
Knowledge in coaction fields
96(6)
The commercialisation of university knowledge
102(2)
The pursuit of knowledge
104(2)
7 The problem's the thing: research in a global virtual university 106(11)
Introduction
106(1)
Privileging problems
107(1)
The problem with problems
108(1)
Research problems
109(1)
Commercialisation of university research
110(1)
Problematisation
111(2)
Problem structures
113(2)
The future of problems
115(1)
Global problems
115(2)
8 The curriculum of globalisation 117(18)
Introduction
117(1)
The universals of university curricula
118(1)
Producing professionals who address global problems
118(1)
The search for reality
119(2)
A fractal and organic curriculum
121(2)
An issues curriculum
123(2)
Level one of a global curriculum: an introductory week
125(1)
Level two of a global curriculum: two basic programmes
126(4)
Level three of a global curriculum
130(1)
Level four of a global curriculum
130(1)
Is a global curriculum feasible?
130(1)
A cautionary syntagm
131(4)
9 Global corporate 135(16)
Introduction
135(1)
The idea of a global university
136(2)
A global virtual university in the global virtual agora
138(1)
Accreditation
139(1)
Assessment
140(3)
Brand names
143(1)
HyperCampus
144(1)
Organisation of a global virtual university
145(2)
Global study centres
147(1)
The civilising mission
148(3)
Bibliography 151(10)
Index 161

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