Universities, Disruptive Technologies, and Continuity in Higher Education: The Impact of Information Revolutions

Universities, Disruptive Technologies, and Continuity in Higher Education: The Impact of Information Revolutions
ISBN-10
1137549424
ISBN-13
9781137549426
Category
Education
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2016-08-23
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Gavin Moodie

Description

This book seeks to understand the effects of the current information revolution on universities by examining the effects of two previous information revolutions: Gutenberg’s invention and proof of printing in 1450 and the Scientific Revolution from the mid- fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Moodie reviews significant changes since the early modern period in universities’ students, libraries, curriculum, pedagogy, lectures, assessment, research, and the dissemination of these changes across the globe. He argues that significant changes in the transmission and dissemination of disciplinary knowledge are shaped by the interaction of three factors: financial, technological, and physical resources; the nature, structure and level of knowledge; and the methods available for managing knowledge.

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