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| Title: | Perspectives on Higher Education in the Digital Age
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| Author: | Michael F Beaudoin (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1594548412 : 9781594548413 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Weight: | .896 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - June 2006 |
| List Price: | 59.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Higher & further education |
This volume consists of a series of seventeen essays examining the future of higher education, especially as impacted by the rapid advance and pervasive presence of digital resources. There can be little disagreement that information, communication and instructional technologies are already having a significant impact on schools and colleges, and what is occurring today will have a profound influence not only on educational structures in the future, but also on teaching and learning processes. As a consequence, all stakeholders in the educational enterprise will be affected. The 26 authors and co-authors represented within, all of whom are recognised scholars and practitioners in the field of distance education, attempt here to pose relevant questions and provide thoughtful, and sometimes provocative, responses. These contributors write from diverse perspectives, representing several countries and continents, as well as varied organisational and cultural settings, offering both micro and macro views on the topics they address.
Preface; The Impact of Distance Education on the Academy in the Digital Age; E-learning and Social Change: An Apparent Contradiction; Pervasive Computing: The Future of Computers in Higher Education; Educational Access and the Role of Distance Education in the Future; The Changing Nature of Academic Libraries in the Digital Age; Higher Education Evolution: Individual Freedom Afforded by Educational Social Software; The role of transformational learning in distance education: Becoming aware; Modelling alternatives for tomorrow’s university: Has the future already happened?; Faculty Mentoring at a Distance: Coming Together in the Virtual Community; Implementing E-learning in Israel Higher Education: Current and Future Trends; Distance Learning in Africa: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain; Universities, Wisdom, Transdisciplinarity, and the Challenges and Opportunities of Technology; Building Walls or Building Bridges: Accessibility of Online Education; Trends Affecting Higher Education and Distance Learning; Balancing Theory and Practice in Higher Education; The New Academy: A Dynamic Vision for a Post-modern Era of Distance Education; A Future Scenario of Education as a Result of the Digital Age; Index.
