The Virtual University?: Knowledge, Markets, and Management

Higher Education is changing-in scope, style, technology, and objectives. This book looks at the impact of information technologies on higher education and the reorganization of universities in more managerial and business directions. The book will combine empirical and analytical chapters from scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
This book, written by scholars from around the world discuss the effects of information technology on higher education. This volume covers the process of integrating information techology, creating virtual learning and possible consequences of the new information and communications techologies for higher education. It also focuses on how becoming a "virtual university" contributes to the reorganization of colleges and universities, gaining a more managerial and business identity globally.

Kevin Robins studied at the universities of Sussex, York, and Kent. He is Professor of Communications, Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include The Technical Fix: Education, Computers, and Industry (1989, with Frank Webster), Into the Image (1996), Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Frank Webster), and Spaces of Identity (1995, with David Morley). Frank Webster was educated at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Sociology at City University. He was previously Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham (1999-2002). Recent publications are: Times of the Technoculture (1999, with Kevin Robins), Theories of the Information Society (2002), and Culture and Politics in the Information Age (2001).