The virtual university? : knowledges, markets, and management / edited by Kevin Robins and Frank Webster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robins, Kevin.

Webster, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Data processing.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education, Higher.

Internet in education.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

x, 332 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

The virtual university? / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster

Globalizing the academy / John Urry

The university and modernity: a history of the present / Gerard Delanty

The university and the 'global' economy / Masao Miyoshi

Working through the work of making work mobile / James Cornford and Neil Pollock

The virtual university: the learner's perspective / Charles Crook

New managerialism: the manager-academic and technologies of management in universities

looking forward to virtuality? / Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem

Exporting management: neo-imperialism and global consumerism / Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy

Saving the soul of the university: what is to be done? / Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy

Commodity and community: institutional design for the networked university / Philip E. Agre

Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies / Les Levidow

Digital discourses, online classes, electronic documents: developing new university technocultures / Timothy W. Luke

Rehearsal for the revolution / David F. Noble

Some consequences of the new information and communication technologies for higher education / Martin Trow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199245576

0199257930

OCLC:

60671474