Tiffin, John

Rajasingham, Lalita

The global virtual university.

London [u.a.]

2003

0415287014

0415287022

9780415287012

This book is about the shift from the modern university of the nation state to the global virtual university of the future. John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham launched the idea of virtual universities on the Internet with the publication of 'In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society' in 1995. Since then, virtual universities have multiplied worldwide. However, the authors argue that globalisation and the Internet are still in their infancy, and universities have yet to face the challenges of global free trade in broadband telecommunications, artificial intelligence and HyperReality.
Based on material gathered from research in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, this book describes how a global university could function in the future and presents a paradigm from which it might be constructed.
This unique, visionary text will be critical reading for academics, postgraduate students and for anyone involve din policymaking and planning within the university community and administration. (Quelle: routledge.com)

List of figures and tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
The universals of a university
Universities have IT
Instruction in universities
New academics for old
Old students for new
Play the game: knowledge in universities
The problem's the thing: research in a global virtual university
The curriculum of globalisation
Global corporate
Bibliography
Index

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