Understanding virtual universities / Roy Rada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rada, R. (Roy), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education, Higher.

Telecommunication in higher education.

Distance education.

Physical Description:

iv, 122 p. : ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anticipating a future in which distance learning and virtual reality tutoring systems play a key role in university teaching, Rada provides guidelines for making the best use of technological opportunities. This book combines managerial, social and technical issues to provide a comprehensive approach to Information Technology for Higher Education.

Contents:

Front Cover

Preliminaries

Contents

Preface

Contribution and Use

Audience

Knowledge Base and Author Experience

What is Covered and What Not

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Education in Cyberspace

Integration across Levels

The Culture of Universities

Learning and Content

Learning and Pedagogy

Taxonomy of Learning Types

Learning by Doing

Pedagogy

Delivering Interactive Content

Historical Snapshot

Multiple-choice Questions

Directions in Testing

Intelligent Tutors

Virtual Reality Tutors

Meta-analysis

Hypertext versus Paper

System Standard

Producing Interactive Content

Regional Effort

Organizational Issues

Course Architecture and Life Cycle

Summary

Teaching and Class

Groupware

Communication

Video Conferencing

Group Hypertext

Bulletin Boards

Multiple Channel

Virtual Classroom

System

Student Experiences

Teacher Costs

Other Cases

Studio Course

Studio Course Structure

Results

Efficiency and Peer-Peer Assessment

1996 and 1997 Version

1998 Version

Conclusion

Administering Universities

History of Universities and Technology

Millennia Past

Medieval Times

Seventeenth through nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

Libraries and the Internet

Delivering Degrees

Distance Education Survey

Trends by Discipline

Trends by Date

An Online Degree

Open University

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Running a University

A Model of Change

Budgets

Unbundling the Product

Quality Control

Producing University Information Systems

Generations

Different University Needs

All Purpose

Limited Systems

A Historical Example

A Common Architecture of Components

A Structure/Function Model.

Digital Nervous System

New Marketing Opportunities

Using the Internet to Advertise

Educating Employees and Customers

Global Giants

Industry Patterns

Associate of Arts Degree in Telecommunications

Customers are Students

Brokers

The Model

School Company

Teacher Student

Catalogs and Auctions

Franchises and Consultants

Publishers

A Diverse Conglomerate

Specialty Publisher

Five-year Future

Thirty-year Future

Dialectics

Friction-Free Education

Epilogue

Exercises and Answers

Learning and Courseware

Courseware Types

Courseware Production

Teaching and Classrooms

Communication Channels

Asynchronous Classroom

Efficiency and Group Roles

Administering Schools

History

Delivering

Systems

Employees

References

Index

A - I

I - T

T - Z

Back Cover - Book Description.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610477326

9781280477324

1280477326

9781841508139

1841508136

OCLC:

437175870