The virtual university? : knowledges, markets, and management by Robins, Kevin., Webster, Frank. instant download

The virtual university? : knowledges, markets, and management by Robins, Kevin., Webster, Frank. instant download

x, 332 p. ; 24 cm, 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, Includes bibliographical references and index