This is a not entirely disinterested posting about a book just published
this month that may interest members of this list.
Mike Fuller
Canterbury Business School, University of Kent,
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7PE, UK
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Virtual Learning and Higher Education
Edited by David Seth Preston
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. XIII, 182 pp.
(At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 8)
ISBN: 90-420-1129-7 EUR 40,-/US$ 52.-
It is clear that the Internet and other global information
infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions
such as: the extent to which education should become 'virtual', the
actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such
education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the
world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference held at
Mansfield College, Oxford in September 2002 and this book contains the
most rounded and challenging papers from that event.
The book is divided into three main parts which consist of the following
themes within Higher Education: current practical and planned uses for
Virtual Learning; the future 'Virtual' vision; and the large questions
that remain unanswered behind 'Virtual Education'.
The contributors range from the nerdy end of experimenters of futuristic
innovative technologies via the practitioner middle of well-known
organizers of existing virtual systems to the other extreme of the
critical engagement of philosophers.
This stimulating and important book is aimed at researchers of topics
such as technology-driven Education, Philosophy, Innovation and Cultural
Studies. It is also meant to appeal to anyone with interest in the
impact that the technological virtual will have upon Higher Education in
future.
Further details: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=ATI%2FPTB+8
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