The virtual university?
Subtitle: knowledge, markets, and management
By: edited by Kevin Robins and Frank Webster.
Contributors: Robins, Kevin.; Webster, Frank.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- Data processing; Universities and colleges -- Administration; Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on; Internet in education; Information technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The virtual university? / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster; title: Globalizing the academy / John Urry; title: The university and modernity: a history of the present / Gerard Delanty; title: The university and the 'global' economy / Masao Miyoshi; title: Working through the work of making work mobile / James Cornford and Neil Pollock; title: The virtual university : the learner's perspective / Charles Crook; title: New managerialism : the manager-academic and technologies of management in universities; title: looking forward to virtuality? / Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem; title: Exporting management : neo-imperialism and global consumerism / Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy; title: Saving the soul of the university : what is to be done? / Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy; title: Commodity and community : institutional design for the networked university / Philip E. Agre; title: Marketizing higher education : neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies / Les Levidow; title: Digital discourses, online classes, electronic documents : developing new university technocultures / Timothy W. Luke; title: Rehearsal for the revolution / David F. Noble; title: Some consequences of the new information and communication technologies for higher education / Martin Trow.