The Global Virtual University

This book highlights the emergence of the virtual university to fit the needs of the global information society.

This book is about the shift from the modern university of the nation state to the global virtual university of the future. John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham launched the idea of virtual universities on the Internet with the publication of 'In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society' in 1995. Since then, virtual universities have multiplied worldwide. However, the authors argue that globalisation and the Internet are still in their infancy, and universities have yet to face the challenges of global free trade in broadband telecommunications, artificial intelligence and HyperReality. Based on material gathered from research in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, this book describes how a global university could function in the future and presents a paradigm from which it might be constructed. This unique, visionary text will be critical reading for academics, postgraduate students and for anyone involve din policymaking and planning within the university community and administration.

1. The universals of a university 2. Universities have IT 3. Instruction in universities 4. New academics for old 5. Old students for new 6. Play the game: knowledge in universities 7. The problem's the thing: Research in a global virtual university 8. The curriculum of globalisation 9. Global corporate.