Conceptualising the Digital University (eBook)

Bill Johnston is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Before retiring in 2010 Bill was Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde’s Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement.Sheila MacNeill is Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Keith Smyth is Professor of Pedagogy and Head of the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK.

Section I: Visioning the Digital UniversityChapter 1. Neoliberalism and the Digital University: The political economy of learning in the 21st centuryChapter 2. The digital university: An impoverished conceptChapter 3. Exploring the digital university: Developing and applying holistic thinkingSection II: Deconstructing the Digital UniversityChapter 4. The myth of digital transformationChapter 5. Digital participation and open communities: From widening access to porous boundariesChapter 6. Information literacy, digital capability and individual agencyChapter 7. Digitally enriched learning spacesChapter 8. The digitally distributed curriculumSection III: Reimagining the Digital UniversityChapter 9. An extended conceptual matrix for the digital universityChapter 10. Institutional Practice and PraxisChapter 11. Academic development for the Digital UniversityChapter 12. Conclusion: Advancing the digital and open education agenda.