Research Catalog

Title

Putting the university online : information, technology, and organisational change / James Cornford and Neil Pollock.

Author

Cornford, James, 1963-

Publication

Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Pollock, Neil, 1967-

Description

ix, 121 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "James Cornford and Neil Pollock draw both on theories from the sociology of technology and on a large and diverse body of empirical research in order to explore how universities are attempting to build and use new ICTs to sit alongside, complement and, in some cases, replace established means of delivering, organizing and managing higher education.
• Their book will help sensitize policy makers, academics, university managers, and students to the limits to, and implications of, the pursuit of a virtual future for higher education."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Education, Higher > Effect of technological innovations on
• Distance education
• Education, Higher > Computer network resources
• Virtual reality in higher education

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Online Imperative -- 2. Researching Changing Universities -- 3. Working through the Work of Making Work Mobile -- 4. The Campus and the Online University -- 5. The Online University as Timely and Accurate Information -- 6. Keeping Up Standards: The Virtual University is the University made Concrete -- 7. Customizing Industry Standard Systems for Universities -- 8. Campus Management and the Self-service Student -- 9. Reflection and Conclusion -- The Society for Research into Higher Education.

ISBN

• 0335210066
• 0335210058 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002074811

OCLC

• ocm49942787
• SCSB-4335192

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries