Re-organizing universities for the information age

David Annand

doi:10.19173/irrodl.v8i3.372

Re-organizing universities for the information age

David Annand

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v8i3.372
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Fordism
Industrialization
Innovation
Luddite
University change

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