The Emerging Worldwide Electronic University: Information Age Global Higher Education

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Higher education is changing dramatically as a result of global telecommunications. This book surveys and synthesizes the material currently available on this important topic. Much of the volume provides detailed and fascinating information on experiments, organizations, and ideas related to computer networks and higher education. Other sections examine the electronic organization of knowledge, electronic textbooks, and the many ways in which students may use computer connections to enhance their educational experience. At the heart of the study is the notion of a worldwide electronic university in which students, faculty, and research libraries will be connected electronically across continents. The author begins by describing the early signs and origins of the emerging worldwide electronic university, such as the growth of courses made available through computer networks and television. He then considers some of the administrative issues involved and the responses of some corporations and organizations to those issues. The next few chapters describe and assess the value of educational exchange and the technology that makes that exchange possible. Other chapters discuss the linking of research libraries, the facilitation of international research, and emerging instructional issues. The result is an important guide to a topic of growing interest to educators and students alike.

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"Parker Rossman offers an interesting, useful, and, inspiring review of current projects and future possibilities for a Worldwide Electronic University. His book comes at an opportune time when university-based computer networks are experiencing significant increases in daily use."-Harvard Educational Review
"Parker Rossman's book is a delightful and provocative summary. He includes a substantial bibliography for further reading."-History Microcomputer Review
"Particularly relevant to libraries is this upbeat and sophisticated 184-page treatise."-American Libraries
""Parker Rossman's book is a delightful and provocative summary. He includes a substantial bibliography for further reading.""-History Microcomputer Review
""Particularly relevant to libraries is this upbeat and sophisticated 184-page treatise.""-American Libraries
""Parker Rossman offers an interesting, useful, and, inspiring review of current projects and future possibilities for a Worldwide Electronic University. His book comes at an opportune time when university-based computer networks are experiencing significant increases in daily use.""-Harvard Educational Review

Author Bio

PARKER ROSSMAN is Vice-President of the Global Systems Analysis and Simulation Project (GLOSAS/USA) and Chair of the GLOSAS/Global University Long Range Planning Committee. The former Dean of the Ecumenical Education Center at Yale University, he has published several books and more than a hundred articles on computers and education.