Download or read book Exploring Institutional Logics for Technology Mediated Higher Education written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the complexities inherent in higher education’s multi-faceted response to the forces of mediatization—or how institutions change when their social communication gets mediated by technology—and introduces a novel perspective to comprehend them in a systematic way. By drawing on archival analysis and six organizational case studies, the author empirically traces the emergence of a cyber-cultural institution within higher education. As these case studies demonstrate, this new institutional logic requires creativity, individual recognition, and an underlying platform powered by cyber technologies and digitization of content. Using an analytical lens, this cyber-cultural perspective answers many questions about why faculty refuse to adopt online education, why students struggle with mediated teaching, and what possibly could be done to take online education to its next level.

Download or read book Exploring Institutional Logics for Technology Mediated Higher Education written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the complexities inherent in higher education’s multi-faceted response to the forces of mediatization—or how institutions change when their social communication gets mediated by technology—and introduces a novel perspective to comprehend them in a systematic way. By drawing on archival analysis and six organizational case studies, the author empirically traces the emergence of a cyber-cultural institution within higher education. As these case studies demonstrate, this new institutional logic requires creativity, individual recognition, and an underlying platform powered by cyber technologies and digitization of content. Using an analytical lens, this cyber-cultural perspective answers many questions about why faculty refuse to adopt online education, why students struggle with mediated teaching, and what possibly could be done to take online education to its next level.

Download or read book Technology Enhanced Learning and the Virtual University written by Michael David Sankey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first works on Higher Education Administration in the 1970s no comprehensive work in terms of purpose and scope of Higher Education has been published. There have been important changes in people’s aspirations vis-à-vis higher education globally. In parallel, the higher education systems, worldwide, have been undergoing constant transformation in response to these aspirations. From governments, employers and prospective students and their parents, the stakeholders in higher education system are now extremely varied paying close attention to the various aspects of higher education - from infrastructure, on-campus safety and security to administration, faculty and curricula. The present series attempts to take into account the issues of importance to all the stakeholders. Hence the series not only pays attention to the purpose and outcomes of higher education but also the economics surrounding higher education vis a vis marketization. The nitty gritty of running and maintaining a university infrastructure, impact of globalization and internationalization on delivery and demand of higher education, the commoditization of research, and changing paradigms of teaching and learning fall within the purview of the series. The increasing competition from other entities to provide degrees, certificates or other forms of credentials makes it important to have a work that brings all of the elements together to see how they actually interact and inter-relate from a systems perspective. The present series attempts to comprehensively attend to these issues and provide a complete reference resource to all those involved and interested in setting up of a Higher Education institution and its administration.

Download or read book Race Law and Higher Education in the Colorblind Era written by Hoang Vu Tran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides detailed analysis of Supreme Court judgments which have impacted the rights of minorities in relation to higher education, and so illustrates ongoing issues of racial discrimination throughout the American education sector. Race, Law, and Higher Education in the Colorblind Era brings together the many racial disputes that have been adjudicated by the Supreme Court to investigate the politics of colorblindness in the post-civil rights era. Through a reading of these various cases as a form of continuing racial discourse, this book focuses on the ways in which racial disputes operate within a clearly entwined colorblind narrative that invalidates racial justice for minorities. By investigating how the Supreme Court has understood racism and the concept of race across its history, this volume demonstrates how colleges and universities must navigate the often contradictory and perilous landscape of ‘diversity’ in attempts to integrate historically disadvantaged minorities. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology of education, multicultural education, and legal education.

Download or read book Higher Education in Nepal written by Krishna Bista and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a showcase of discussions and critical perspectives about Nepalese higher education. Its chapters cover topics such as the impacts of local sociopolitical changes and global forces on public and private education, emerging online and distance education, administrative and intellectual leadership, quality assessment, graduate employability, global mobility of students, and the contributions of global diaspora of Nepalese scholars. The central questions of the book are: What are some of the local and global academic interactions in Nepalese higher education and what are the current challenges and pathways for advancements and improvements? How can Nepalese higher education absorb twenty-first century values of quality education as external forces, while adapting new developments to local needs? How can scholars interested in Nepalese, South Asian, and international higher education create opportunities for scholarship and professional collaboration around research on higher education in this region of South Asia? What issues and perspectives can research and scholarship about Nepal’s higher education offer to international discourse in higher education? The book offers information and resources to international educators interested in the dynamics of Nepalese and, by implication, South Asian higher education by introducing key challenges in policy and programs, innovative changes in curricula, effective approaches in technology application, and strategies for future integration of global reforms in education.

Download or read book Post Recession Community College Reform written by Chet Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Because of the economic downturn in the early 21st Century, an already eroding financial base for public higher education saw even further losses. At the same time, enrollments were booming, particularly in the two-year sector where many students who would have traditionally forgone a college education, were now enrolling to ensure their competitiveness in a harsh labor market. Chapters in this book examine the development and implementation of initiatives and accountability measures imposed across the states by the Obama administration, and consider their effectiveness in reducing the impact of the loss of students, and their role in improving courses. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers exploring the history of education in the United States, as well as academic administrators, faculty, and policy-makers with an interest in reform-based practices that have been successfully implemented in community colleges.

Download or read book The Tenure Track Process for Chicana and Latina Faculty written by Patricia A. Perez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology addresses the role of postsecondary institutional structures and policy in shaping the tenure-track process for Chicana and Latina faculty in higher education. Each chapter offers first-person narratives of survival in the academy employing critical theoretical contributions and qualitative empirical research. Major topics included are the importance of early socialization, intergenerational mentorship, culturally relevant faculty programming, and institutional challenges and support structures. The aim of this volume is to highlight practical and policy implications and interventions for scholars, academics, and institutions to facilitate tenure and promotion for women faculty of color.

Download or read book The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond written by Michael Byram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond presents a detailed and fascintating account of completing a doctorate from the perspectives of researchers, supervisors and students. It provides an in-depth insight through qualitative data, interpretative methods and insider experiences for a truly unique perspective. Given the popularity of doctoral studies and their increasing importance outside of academia, the PhD has needed to evolve and develop, particularly given its role in the internationalization of universities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with international participants, this book explores case studies and comparative analysis of the dimensions of researcher identity, the processes of supervision and the use of languages for teaching and learning and conducting research. Providing a keen insight into how the internationalization of higher education is affecting the doctoral experience, The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond is ideal reading for all academics, doctoral supervisors and examiners as well as postgraduate students involved in doctoral education.

Download or read book Higher Education as a Cyber cultural Institution written by Neelam Dwivedi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education in the U.S. has been considered one of the most successful sectors that represents the widely adopted western model of education in the world. Scholars view it as the most important institution in the complex process of knowledge creation and distribution. Such assertions, however, directly contradict the projections made by others that university campuses will soon be relics or that the sector will collapse under its own weight within next few decades. A closer examination of these contradictions reveals that the perspectives driving such projections often adopt an economic outlook, mostly focusing on higher educations rising cost, and compare the sector with commercial industries such as manufacturing or services that were disrupted with emergence of online technologies. While such an outlook explains some recent transformations, it doesnt acknowledge the sectors challenges beyond economic sustainability, and, therefore, fails to guide future policy for its broader role in our society. Several scholarly reflections reinforce this outlook by arguing that higher education is losing its academic and social priorities and gravitating toward the dictates of the marketplace.In this research, I argue that the higher education sector needs a broader range of perspectives to capture its dynamics comprehensively and, therefore, I engage the theory of institutional logics to view higher education as a complex system of multiple institutional logics. I then use the theory of mediatization to shift the focus from its cost to its content ,which offers an alternate view. It allows for the drawing of parallels with other cultural institutions, such as the performing arts of music and theater, that underwent mediatization when their content was mediated by recording technologies. The traditional models of content exchange in these cultural institutions (in face-to-face settings) were disrupted when their content was captured, recorded, and disseminated virtually. Scholarly accounts of these events in cultural and media studies reveal many parallels and suggest that higher education is also a cultural institution, primarily because it engages in the creation and distribution of symbolic content. To explore this perspective, I conducted a multi-level, multi-case qualitative field study. The setting for the research included higher education organizations across three categories: public non-profit, private non-profit, and private for-profit, with two organizations in each category representing resident and online education as the dominant mode of teaching. A specific program was chosen from each organization as the unit of analysis. To capture the field-level phenomenon, I conducted an archival analysis of documents published by field agencies. The results reveal six prevailing institutional logics that influence the teaching practice Academic, Social, Community, State, Corporation, and Market. Increasing online adoption reveals the emergence of a seventh logic that I term the Cyber-Cultural logic. It focuses on student engagement and leverages cyber technologies to digitize, distribute, personalize, track, and adapt the instructional content. Increasing production of videos with experts from disciplines such as entertainment and media to create engaging instructional content reflects the cultural element. The use of virtual interactivity, learning analytics, and predictive algorithms reflects the cyber element. Further, each of these seven institutional logics is explicated and analyzed in terms of how it co-exists, conflicts, and evolves with others. The lens of mediatization reveals how online education has led to the emergence of an alternate world of higher education, comprising instructional content providers and credit-recommendation agencies. While on one hand it is trying to disrupt the traditional educational models, on the other it is leveraging academic strength to gain legitimacy. In this way, this research makes several theoretical, as well as practical, contributions. It broadens our perspective by identifying multiple institutional logics prevailing in the higher education sector. It offers their in-depth explication and an integration between the theories of institutional logics and mediatization in the context of higher education. The findings reveal the complexity of contemporary transformations that call for engaging multiple perspectives to bring sustainable change. They also bring to light why projections solely based on narrow economic outlooks fail to be realized and how they can potentially misguide the discourses that shape future policy. This comprehensive view can guide our efforts to transform higher education without compromising the foundational values that have made it one of the most enduring and esteemed sectors in the world.

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism written by Royston Greenwood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors. Now in its Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical work. New chapters on Translation, Networks and Institutional Pluralism are included to reflect new directions in the field. The Second Edition has also been reorganized into six parts: Part One: Beginnings (Foundations) Part Two: Organizations and their Contexts Part Three: Institutional Processes Part Four: Conversations Part Five: Consequences Part Six: Reflections

Download or read book Designing Technology Mediated Case Learning in Higher Education written by Choon Lang Gwendoline Quek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects case studies in design and application of technology-mediated case-based learning models in higher education. It provides a much-needed, updated synthesis of recent research and application of technology-mediated case-based learning across disciplines within higher education. The book does not only provide a broad perspective and deep understanding on the designs and instructional applications of technology-mediated case-based learning models, but also inspire more interest in adopting or inventing new situated case-based learning models in the context of higher education.

Download or read book Bringing Education Online written by Lauren A. Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of higher education is undergoing significant technological change, most notably in the rapid expansion of online education over the last two decades. Policymakers and other supporters have proposed that online learning will solve many of higher education's most pressing problems. Scholars addressing online education often take for granted either that technology will improve higher education or bring about the decline of the professoriate. A sociological understanding of online education is needed to better understand how the growth of online education fits within the shifting logics guiding the field of higher education. Theories of academic capitalism explain how universities have become increasingly entrepreneurial in order to attract new streams of revenue, but do not consider how different types of universities may affect the market logic or enable resistance to take place. Drawing from the broader institutional logics perspective allows for a fuller understanding of how both market and professional logics have shaped how key stakeholders judge the legitimacy of online learning, why faculty have embraced or resisted online education, and how the characteristics of different types of universities structure this process. This dissertation consists of three studies. To assess the dimensions of online learning salient to its legitimacy to key stakeholders over time, a content analysis was performed on the arguments in favor of or against online learning in The Chronicle of Higher Education. To understand the institutionalization of online learning within academic departments, in-depth interviews were conducted with 61 department chairpersons and academic administrators that oversee online programs. Finally, to highlight the factors that enable resistance to online learning, a case study was performed of the successful campaign to block Rutgers University's partnership with Pearson, a for-profit company, to develop online programs. Academic capitalism theory states that mechanisms like the development of online programs displace professional logics, but my findings demonstrate that when opening up new markets is equated with democratizing higher education, or when faculty see online education as a way to serve students as consumers, the market logic has assimilated the concept of education for the public good from the professional logic. Another way that this dissertation extends academic capitalism theory is in its attention to public and private regional universities alongside elite research universities. This research adds empirical insight into the very different ways that online programs have been developed at different types of universities, and how these organizational contexts mediate and moderate field-level and individual-level market and professional logics. The implications of this research for policies that both serve students and reinforce professional autonomy are discussed in the conclusion.

Download or read book Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education written by Henry C. Lucas, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American universities for years have been the bright spot in our educational system. Today, these institutions are under siege from multiple constituencies including students, parents, legislators, government officials and their own faculties. Education has historically been a way for students to improve their lives and fortunes. However, the rising costs of college are a barrier to access for many students, reducing their chances for upward mobility. Is technology the solution, or is it just another costly problem for universities? The purpose of this book is to explore how new technology has the potential to transform American higher education. However, this same technology also has the potential to disrupt universities. Much depends on how administrators, faculty and students apply technologically-enhanced learning. The book presents details on MOOCs, blended, flipped and online classes and their role in transforming higher-ed based on my experiences teaching all of these types of courses. A blended course includes asynchronous material, usually on the Internet, that students access at their convenience. Faculty may post videos and other exercises they find on the Web, and they may create their own short video lectures. Class time is devoted to "active" learning, where students make presentations, solve problems, and discuss the issues in the course. A major contribution of this approach is to move from passive lecturing to an active learning environment. Fully online classes have existed for years, but technology available today makes it possible to have an online experience that includes synchronous interaction between faculty and staff online through video conferencing. The book describes the development and contents of a high-quality, online MBA program that is very successful two years after it began. Massive Open Online Courses or "MOOCs" are the utility infielder of new educational technologies. They can be used in many different ways, as standalone courses for general interest or a certificate, as a supplement to college courses, or as the basis for a degree or even a new type of university. These technology-enabled approaches to teaching and learning offer tremendous opportunities to schools, but they also threaten the traditional university. The book identifies some of these threats and opportunities and offers suggested strategies to take advantage of the technology. Is this technology enough to save the American University system? While new ways of teaching and learning are exciting, they are only part of the puzzle. Radical change beyond what happens in the classroom is needed if our higher education system is to continue to flourish and some of these ideas are discussed in the last chapter of the book.

Download or read book Virtualization of Universities written by Thomas Pfeffer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to shape conceptual tools to understand the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the organization of universities. Traditional research-based universities, the most typical representatives of the higher education system, find themselves challenged by the speed and the wide range of technical innovations, but also by a vast array of implicit assumptions and explicit promises associated with the distribution of digital media. The author observes that as universities increasingly use digital media (computers and the Internet) to accomplish their tasks, a transformation takes place in an evolutionary rather than in a revolutionary way. Using the University of Klagenfurt as an in-depth case study, he explores such dynamic issues as how digital media affect the practice of research, the preservation and dissemination of knowledge (for example, through publishing and archiving), and delivery of education at universities. More broadly, he considers issues of organizational culture and design, administration, and leadership as universities integrate digital technologies into all aspects of their operations.

Download or read book A Baseline of Development written by Darrel W. Staat and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides insight into the current development of ten 21st century technologies that will impact community colleges and universities in the next 5-30 years.

Download or read book Work and Technology in Higher Education written by Mark A. Shields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s, U.S. colleges and universities have become extremely important not only as computational research and development centers, but also as field sites for examining the relationship between technological innovation and sociocultural change. In spite of this, neither academic analysts of technological change nor the broader audience of computer professionals have a full understanding of higher education's catalytic role in shaping the so-called microcomputer revolution. This volume makes a major contribution to that understanding. In contrast to previous publications about computers in higher education -- most of which focus narrowly on technology deployment, use, and management strategies -- this volume takes a comprehensive look at academic computing as a sociocultural phenomenon. Conceptually and methodologically unique, it is the only collection of in-depth, mainly ethnographic studies of the "academic computing revolution" -- its consequences, meanings, and significance. Most of the contributors are university-based social scientists who have been at the forefront of studying computing in higher education, beginning over a decade ago. The volume consists of a series of case studies, developed during years of careful fieldwork and analysis, that document the open-ended, socially constructed, interpretively flexible character of computer-mediated academic work. Drawing on core ideas of cultural anthropology, interpretive sociology, and the social construction of technology, this book also makes a contribution to the growing, multidisciplinary study of technology and society. Work and Technology in Higher Educationwill inform not only educators and social scientists interested in computing and technology studies, but also academic administrators who want to understand the sociocultural context of technological change as a basis for better decision making.

Download or read book The Institutional Logics Perspective written by Patricia H. Thornton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities. In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influential works on institutional theory motivated a distinct new approach to scholarship on institutional logics. The book shows how the institutional logics perspective transforms institutional theory. It presents novel theory, further elaborates the institutional logics perspective, and forges new linkages to key literatures on practice, identity, and social and cognitive psychology. It develops the microfoundations of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship, proposing a set of mechanisms that go beyond meta-theory, integrating this work with macro theory on institutional logics into a cross-levels model of cultural heterogeneity. By incorporating current psychological understanding of human behaviour and linking it to sociological perspectives, it aims to provide an encompassing framework for institutional analysis, and to be an essential and accessible reference for scholars and advanced students of organizational behaviour, organization and management theory, business strategy, and cultural sociology.