Universities in the Networked Society
Universities in the Networked Society

Author: Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3030050262

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This book presents research on the effects and effectiveness of ICT applications in lifelong learning in relation to digital competences of educators. It sketches recent and future evolutions in higher education, explores whether universities have adjusted policies and business models in line with the rapid development of ICT technologies, and analyses whether the adjustments made are merely cosmetic or truly future-proof. The book specifically deals with such topics as digital competencies of teaching staff, the development and implementation of MOOCs and other E-learning tools, virtual classrooms, online tutoring, and collaborative learning. It presents case studies of innovative master’s programmes, projects and methods, and processes of standardization and validation used in various countries as illustrations. The book explains the rapid transition of the knowledge society to the "society of global competence" and shows the necessity of an active implementation of innovative forms and effective methods of education, and above all, distance learning at all levels of education.

24/7
24/7

Author: Robert Hassan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780804751971

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24/7 is the first collection of essays dealing with the nature and our experience of temporality in the network society.

Networked Publics
Networked Publics

Author: Kazys Varnelis

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2012-08-17

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0262517922

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How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday life. Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. Four chapters—each by an interdisciplinary team of scholars using collaborative software—provide a synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies. The chapter on place describes how digital networks enable us to be present in physical and networked places simultaneously—often at the expense of nondigital commitments. The chapter on culture explores the growth and impact of amateur-produced and remixed content online. The chapter on politics examines the new networked modes of bottom-up political expression and mobilization. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure notes the tension between openness and control in the flow of information, as seen in the current controversy over net neutrality.

Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University
Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University

Author: Timothy D. Stephen

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780791428535

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An essay collection addressing computer networking and scholarly communication in higher education offers a broad array of insights from the technical and academic points of view. Many of the 25 contributors have been influential in establishing computer mediated communication in their universities and colleges. Their advice and experience cover on-line costs, administration, research issues, classroom networking across the curriculum, electronic library resources, and even a brief introduction to "navigating the network." Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Network Society
The Network Society

Author: Louis Albrechts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1135991855

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Editors are well known experts in the field as are many of the contributors Spatial and technological networks are of high interest and this book examines their relationship and deals with the challenges that they raise for planners and policy makers A strong focus on the political and sociological aspect of network-based societies and cities

The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society

Author: Manuel Castells

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-24

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1444356313

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This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe

Information Systems And Technologies For Network Society: Proceedings Of The Ipsj International Symposium
Information Systems And Technologies For Network Society: Proceedings Of The Ipsj International Symposium

Author: Yahiko Kambayashi

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-09-09

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9814545481

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This volume contains technical papers and panel position papers selected from the proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Systems and Technologies for Network Society, held together with the IPSJ (information processing society of Japan) National Convention, in September 1997. Papers were submitted from all over the world, especially from Japan, Korea and China. Since these countries are believed to form one of the major computer manufacturing centers in the world, a panel on “Computer Science Education for the 21st Century” was set up. A special session on the Japanese project on Software Engineering invited representative researchers from the project, which is supported by the Ministry of Education, Japan.

The Huayan University Network
The Huayan University Network

Author: Erik J. Hammerstrom

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0231550758

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In the early twentieth century, Chinese Buddhists sought to strengthen their tradition through publications, institution building, and initiatives aimed at raising the educational level of the monastic community. In The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during this time of profound political and social change and, in so doing, recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. Hammerstrom traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China. Although the university lasted only a few years, its graduates went on to establish a number of Huayan-centered educational programs throughout China. While they did not create a new sectarian Huayan movement, they did form a network unified by a common educational heritage that persists to the present day. Drawing on an extensive range of Buddhist texts and periodicals, Hammerstrom shows that Huayan had a significant impact on Chinese Buddhist thought and practice and that the history of Huayan complicates narratives of twentieth-century Buddhist modernization and revival. Offering a wide range of insights into the teaching and practice of Huayan in Republican China, this book sheds new light on an essential but often overlooked element of the East Asian Buddhist tradition.

Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization
Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization

Author: Limbu, Marohang

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1466647582

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Since the dawn of the digital era, the transfer of knowledge has shifted from analog to digital, local to global, and individual to social. Complex networked communities are a fundamental part of these new information-based societies. Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization examines the production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge within networked communities in the wider global context of pervasive Web 2.0 and social media services. This book will offer insight for business stakeholders, researchers, scholars, and administrators by highlighting the important concepts and ideas of information- and knowledge-based economies.

Universities in the Flux of Time
Universities in the Flux of Time

Author: Paul Gibbs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1317574915

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Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening of time, leading to a heightened intensity of academic life. Yet the nature of time in all the contemporary work on the university has been largely overlooked. This is an important omission and Universities in the Flux of Time has gathered leading academics whose contributions to the volume raise a debate as to the influence and use of time in the university. They do this in an exploration of how these changes are perceived in higher education and how these affect its temporality from local, national and global perspectives. By dealing with the time within the university, the book opens new spaces for the development of the university and civic society. The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of the temporal issues of engaging with the past, present and future of higher education and its institutions, through consideration of the increased speed demanded for the production of able students and innovative research, to the accountability pressures from central governments and commerce. Reflecting on these issues in the higher education sector, Universities in the Flux of Time is split into three parts, with each one addressing time and its multiple relationships with the university: Past, present and future Knowledge and time Living with time This volume will provide essential reading for those on higher education studies courses as well as a wider audience of managers, practitioners, policy makers, academics and students and from many disciplinary perspectives including sociology, organisation studies, social psychology and the philosophy of education.