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Taylor & Francis Building Better Universities Strategies Spaces Technologies 2014 Edition by Jos Boys
Building Better Universities provides a wide-ranging summary and critical review of the increasing number of groundbreaking initiatives undertaken by universities and colleges around the world. It suggests that we have reached a key moment for the higher education sector in which the services, location, scale, ownership, and distinctiveness of education are being altered dramatically, whether universities and colleges want it or not. These shifts are affecting traditional assumptions about both the future 'shape' of higher education institutions, and the roles of-and relationships between-learners, teachers, researchers, managers, businesses, communities and other stakeholders.Building Better Universities aims to bridge the gap between educational ideas about what the university is, or should be 'for', and its day-to-day practices and organisation. It roams across strategic, operational, and institutional issues; space planning and building design; and technological change, in order to bring together issues that are often dealt with separately. By analysing the many challenges faced by higher education in the contemporary period, and exploring the various ways universities and colleges are responding, this powerful book aims to support a 'step-change' in debates over the future of higher education, and to enable senior managers and faculty to develop more strategic and creative ways of enabling effective twenty-first-century learning in their own institutions. Table of contents :- List of FiguresList of TextboxesIntroduction: the shifting boundaries of higher educationChapter 1: Re-shaping universities and colleges Theme 1.1: Alternative universities?Theme 1.2: Radical restructuringTheme 1.3 Enhancing the student offerChapter 2: New patterns of public and private competition and collaboration Theme 2.1: Hybrid non-profit and for-profit entitiesTheme 2.2: Social enterprise and civic engagementTheme 2.3: Widening participationTheme 2.4: Improving student performanceChapter 3: Responding to internationalizationTheme 3.1: International collaborationsTheme 3.2: International networksTheme 3.3: Developing global citizensChapter 4: Changing learning spacesTheme 4.1: Comprehensive campus re-designTheme 4.2: Re-designing processesTheme 4.3: Creating hybrid spacesChapter 5: Beyond virtual learning environmentsTheme 5.1: The massification of eLearningTheme 5.2: Seamless virtual and physical integrationTheme 5.3: Increasing digital literacyTheme 5.4: Using big dataTheme 5.5: Open badgingChapter 6: The implications of new technologies for learning Theme 6.1: Changing learning and teaching methods?Theme 6.2: Open sourcing and sharingTheme 6.3: Embodied learningConclusion: Learning in a post-university world?