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

Other author Robins, Kevin.
Other author Webster, Frank.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptionx, 332 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Universities and colleges--Data processing.
Universities and colleges--Administration.
Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.
Internet in education.
Information technology.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0199245576
ISBN0199257930 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks LB2395.7 .V57 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold