Understanding Virtual Universities

by Roy Rada

Overview

Anticipating a future in which distance learning and virtual reality tutoring systems play a key role in university teaching, Rada provides guidelines for making the best use of technological opportunities. This book combines managerial, social and technical issues to provide a comprehensive approach to Information Technology for Higher Education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841508535
Publisher:	Intellect, Limited
Publication date:	01/03/2013
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	1
	Contribution and Use	1
	Audience	1
	Knowledge Base and Author Experience	2
	What is Covered and What Not	2
	Acknowledgements	2
	Introduction	4
	Education in Cyberspace	4
	Integration across Levels	6
	The Culture of Universities	7
	Learning and Content	10
	Introduction	10
	Learning and Pedagogy	11
	Taxonomy of Learning Types, Learning by Doing, Pedagogy
	Delivering Interactive Content	13
	Historical Snapshot
	Multiple-choice Questions
	Directions in Testing
	Intelligent Tutors
	Virtual Reality Tutors
	Meta-analysis
	Hypertext versus Paper
	System Standard
	Producing Interactive Content	24
	Regional Effort
	Organizational Issues
	Course Architecture and Life Cycle
	Summary	29
	Teaching and Class	31
	Introduction	31
	Groupware	32
	Communication	33
	Video Conferencing
	Group Hypertext
	Bulletin Boards
	Multiple Channel
	Virtual Classroom	37
	System
	Student Experiences
	Teacher Costs
	Other Cases
	Studio Course	40
	Studio Course Structure
	Results
	Efficiency and Peer-Peer Assessment	42
	1996 and 1997 Version
	1998 Version
	Meta-analysis	46
	Conclusion	47
	Administering Universities	49
	Introduction	49
	History of Universities and Technology	50
	Medieval Times
	17th through 19th Century
	20th Century
	Libraries and the Internet
	Delivering Degrees	56
	Distance Education Survey
	Trends by Discipline
	Trends by Date
	An Online Degree
	Open University
	University of Maryland, College Park, USA
	Running a University	59
	A Model of Change
	Budgets
	Unbundling the Product
	Quality Control
	Producing University Information Systems	69
	Generations
	Different University Needs
	All Purpose
	Limited Systems
	A Historical Example
	A Common Architecture of Components
	A Structure/Function Model
	Digital Nervous System	77
	New Marketing Opportunities	79
	Using the Internet to Advertise	80
	Educating Employees and Customers	80
	Global Giants
	Industry Patterns
	Associate of Arts Degree in Telecommunications
	Customers are Students
	Brokers	83
	The Model
	School U Company
	Teacher U Student
	Catalogs and Auctions
	Franchises and Consultants
	Publishers	91
	A Diverse Conglomerate
	Specialty Publisher
	Conclusion	93
	Conclusion	95
	Summary	95
	Five-year Future	96
	Thirty-year Future	98
	Dialectics	99
	Friction-Free Education	99
	Epilogue	101
	Exercises and Answers	103
	Learning and Courseware	104
	Learning and Pedagogy
	Courseware Types
	Courseware Production
	Teaching and Classrooms	107
	Groupware
	Communication Channels
	Asynchronous Classroom
	Studio Course
	Efficiency and Group Roles
	Administering Schools	110
	History
	Delivering
	Systems
	Quality Control
	New Marketing Opportunities	112
	Employees
	Brokers
	Publishers
	Conclusion	115
	References	116
	Index	120

Editorial Reviews

Rada (information systems, U. of Maryland) helps academics take advantage of information technology, analyzing key issues in the relationship between information technology tools and higher education. He assumes readers to be involved directly with teaching or in a support role, but not to have any technical background. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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