Understanding virtual universities - Rada, R., (Roy) (Intellect, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- Contribution and Use -- Audience -- Knowledge Base and Author Experience -- What is Covered and What Not -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Education in Cyberspace -- Integration across Levels -- The Culture of Universities -- Learning and Content -- Introduction -- Learning and Pedagogy -- Taxonomy of Learning Types -- Learning by Doing -- Pedagogy -- Delivering Interactive Content -- Historical Snapshot -- Multiple-choice Questions -- Directions in Testing -- Intelligent Tutors -- Virtual Reality Tutors -- Meta-analysis -- Hypertext versus Paper -- System Standard -- Producing Interactive Content -- Regional Effort -- Organizational Issues -- Course Architecture and Life Cycle -- Summary -- Teaching and Class -- Introduction -- Groupware -- Communication -- Video Conferencing -- Group Hypertext -- Bulletin Boards -- Multiple Channel -- Virtual Classroom -- System -- Student Experiences -- Teacher Costs -- Other Cases --
- Studio Course -- Studio Course Structure -- Results -- Efficiency and Peer-Peer Assessment -- 1996 and 1997 Version -- 1998 Version -- Meta-analysis -- Conclusion -- Administering Universities -- Introduction -- History of Universities and Technology -- Millennia Past -- Medieval Times -- Seventeenth through nineteenth Century -- Twentieth Century -- Libraries and the Internet -- Delivering Degrees -- Distance Education Survey -- Trends by Discipline -- Trends by Date -- An Online Degree -- Open University -- University of Maryland, College Park, USA -- Running a University -- A Model of Change -- Budgets -- Unbundling the Product -- Quality Control -- Producing University Information Systems -- Generations -- Different University Needs -- All Purpose -- Limited Systems -- A Historical Example -- A Common Architecture of Components -- A Structure/Function Model -- Digital Nervous System -- New Marketing Opportunities -- Using the Internet to Advertise --
- Educating Employees and Customers -- Global Giants -- Industry Patterns -- Associate of Arts Degree in Telecommunications -- Customers are Students -- Brokers -- The Model -- School U Company -- Teacher U Student -- Catalogs and Auctions -- Franchises and Consultants -- Publishers -- A Diverse Conglomerate -- Specialty Publisher -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Five-year Future -- Thirty-year Future -- Dialectics -- Friction-Free Education -- Epilogue -- Exercises and Answers -- Learning and Courseware -- Learning and Pedagogy -- Courseware Types -- Courseware Production -- Teaching and Classrooms -- Groupware -- Communication Channels -- Asynchronous Classroom -- Studio Course -- Efficiency and Group Roles
All those involved in Higher Education are under pressure to familiarise themselves with the newest developments in Information Technology, and to understand the ways in which they can make use of these resources. This book will help academics from all disciplines take full advantage of IT. Anticipating a future in which distance learning and virtual reality tutoring systems play a central role in university teaching, Roy Rada provides guidelines for making best use of the technological opportunities. Unlike other books that focus on specific aspects of the subject, Understanding Virtual Unive