Product Description

Based on material gathered from research around the world, this book describes how a global university could function in the future and presents a paradigm from which it might be constructed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1353774 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
'This book is essential reading for students and faculty within existing universities, and for policy makers whose major challenge will be to enable the learned society on a global scale.' - Professor Donald E. Hanna, University of Wisconsin

"Lalita Rajasingham and John Tiffin have brilliantly sketched a philosophical foundation for the future of the university in an era of rapid technological change and globalization....This book is essential reading for students and faculty within existing universities, and for policy makers whose major challenge will be to enable the learned society on a global scale." - Donald E. Hanna, University of Wisconsin

From the Back Cover
This book is about the shift from the modern university of the nation state to the global virtual university of the future. John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham launched the idea of virtual universities on the Internet with the publication of 'In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society' in 1995. Since then, virtual universities have multiplied worldwide. However, the authors argue that globalisation and the Internet are still in their infancy, and universities have yet to face the challenges of global free trade in broadband telecommunications, artificial intelligence and HyperReality.
Based on material gathered from research in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, this book describes how a global university could function in the future and presents a paradigm from which it might be constructed.
This unique, visionary text will be critical reading for academics, postgraduate students and for anyone involve din policymaking and planning within the university community and administration.

About the Author
John Tiffin is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Lalita Rajasingham is Senior Lecturer and Director of programmes in Communication in the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.

Customer Reviews

Best book on the subject
This is an excellent text offeering a truly global perspective. Extremely well written, it offers a vision as well as a construct of the university of the future. It is relevant and timely for both the developed and developing countries. The book is based on the authors' empirical research conducted in several countries, in clear and jargon-free writing. This book should be translated into several languages because of its relevance to academics, students and all who are interested in the future of tertiary education.

The Global Virtual University by Tiffin and Rajasingham
This is an excellent, timely book with a global perspective. It is visionary and yet provides a realistic construct of what a future university might look like. Extremely well written in plain English and the authors base their book on sound research. This book should be translated into several languages as it deals with a subject that is relevant to all countires, both developed and developing. Compared to many texts that revisit the past, here is a text that is innovative and, in brief, brilliant.

hint for the university in the future
This book describes about the overview of current universities and future forecast of university toward the new century.
It gives suggestions about how the university goes toward the future and at the same time it points out problems of university today.
Global and virtual are the key words of the university in the future.
University people are conservative in constructing new stles of university.
However when they read this title,they are willing to go forward to reconstructing current universities.