Re-organizing Universities for the Information Age

University education is still generally conducted within pre-Industrial Age organizational structures. As a result of their inability to evolve the predominant cohort-based classroom structure to more cost-effectively meet the aspirations of burgeoning worldwide populations for higher education, uni...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e6d980d2959944d48c029e678b223b6a2021-12-02T19:26:00ZRe-organizing Universities for the Information Age10.19173/irrodl.v8i3.3721492-3831https://doaj.org/article/e6d980d2959944d48c029e678b223b6a2007-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/372https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831University education is still generally conducted within pre-Industrial Age organizational structures. As a result of their inability to evolve the predominant cohort-based classroom structure to more cost-effectively meet the aspirations of burgeoning worldwide populations for higher education, universities may see substantial organizational changes imposed on them over the next decades by external forces. Emergent forms of university organizational structures are examined that may affect this needed transformation.David AnnandAthabasca University PressarticleFordismindustrializationinnovationLudditeuniversity changeSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2007)
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topic Fordism
industrialization
innovation
Luddite
university change
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industrialization
innovation
Luddite
university change
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
David Annand
Re-organizing Universities for the Information Age
description University education is still generally conducted within pre-Industrial Age organizational structures. As a result of their inability to evolve the predominant cohort-based classroom structure to more cost-effectively meet the aspirations of burgeoning worldwide populations for higher education, universities may see substantial organizational changes imposed on them over the next decades by external forces. Emergent forms of university organizational structures are examined that may affect this needed transformation.
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