Building Better Universities

Jos Boys is a freelance consultant. She was previously Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Art, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. Jos trained originally in architecture, followed by many years’ experience teaching design and contextual studies in a variety of higher educational institutions at different levels. She has also worked as an educational technologist and academic developer, developing ways to enhance learning through both technology-rich and pedagogically sound resources and delivery. She has been a consultant for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and has written several books on higher education, including Towards Creative Learning Spaces: re-thinking the architecture of post-compulsory education (Routledge 2010) and, with Peter Ford, The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using business models to deliver quality education (Routledge 2007).

"This book is an indispensable compendium of issues and information for confronting the challenges of higher education in the 21st century."Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia Teachers College, and Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University, USA"Building Better Universities addresses an uncertain and volatile global higher education environment, surveying the key educational, technological, and financial challenges confronting universities today. The author displays impressive critical thinking about the history and purpose of higher education, as well as knowledge of contemporary developments at campuses internationally as institutions pursue viable futures."Professor Peter Jamieson, Strategic Adviser Learning Environment Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia

• List of FiguresList of TextboxesIntroduction: the shifting boundaries of higher educationChapter 1: Re-shaping universities and colleges Theme 1.1: Alternative universities?Theme 1.2: Radical restructuringTheme 1.3 Enhancing the student offerChapter 2: New patterns of public and private competition and collaboration Theme 2.1: Hybrid non-profit and for-profit entitiesTheme 2.2: Social enterprise and civic engagementTheme 2.3: Widening participationTheme 2.4: Improving student performanceChapter 3: Responding to internationalizationTheme 3.1: International collaborationsTheme 3.2: International networksTheme 3.3: Developing global citizensChapter 4: Changing learning spacesTheme 4.1: Comprehensive campus re-designTheme 4.2: Re-designing processesTheme 4.3: Creating hybrid spacesChapter 5: Beyond virtual learning environmentsTheme 5.1: The massification of eLearningTheme 5.2: Seamless virtual and physical integrationTheme 5.3: Increasing digital literacyTheme 5.4: Using big dataTheme 5.5: Open badgingChapter 6: The implications of new technologies for learning Theme 6.1: Changing learning and teaching methods?Theme 6.2: Open sourcing and sharingTheme 6.3: Embodied learningConclusion: Learning in a post-university world?