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

by Gavin Moodie

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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.

  • ISBN13 9781137549426
  • Publish Date 30 August 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition 1st ed. 2016
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 275
  • Language English