The virtual university? : knowledge, markets, and management / edited by Kevin Robins and Frank Webster

Includes bibliographical references and index

The virtual university? / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster -- Globalizing the academy / John Urry -- The university and modernity: a history of the present / Gerard Delanty -- The university and the 'global' economy / Masao Miyoshi -- Working through the work of making work mobile / James Cornford and Neil Pollock -- The virtual university : the learner's perspective / Charles Crook -- New managerialism : the manager-academic and technologies of management in universities--looking forward to virtuality? / Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem -- Exporting management : neo-imperialism and global consumerism / Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy -- Saving the soul of the university : what is to be done? / Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy -- Commodity and community : institutional design for the networked university / Philip E. Agre -- Marketizing higher education : neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies / Les Levidow -- Digital discourses, online classes, electronic documents : developing new university technocultures / Timothy W. Luke -- Rehearsal for the revolution / David F. Noble -- Some consequences of the new information and communication technologies for higher education / Martin Trow

Higher education is changing - in scope, style, technology and objectives. This text looks at the impact of information technologies on higher education and the reorganization of universities in more managerial and business directions.