The Digital University

This highly original book begins with the bold claim that reason itself has become digitized, and that the consequences of this digitization are as disturbing as they are promising, opening up the possibilities of new ways of learning, conceptualizing cultural exchange and social goods and building democratic institutions. Not everyone will agree with this analysis but that it demands our most serious attention and engagement cannot be denied.Fazal Rizvi, The University of Melbourne, Australia This book does valuable work in re-connecting digital education with its critical, ecological and political worlds. All too often, writing within the field does not see itself as connected to contemporary critical thought, to issues of social justice, to democracy and to ethics. Michael Adrian Peters and Petar Jandris text makes important inroads in the politicisation of educational technology within the digital university.Sin Bayne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland In The Digital University, Michael Adrian Peters and Petar Jandri offer an insightful overview of the impacts of digital media in the work of the university, as well as a visionary manifesto articulating What is to be done. This book is essential reading for any scholar concerned about the fate of academic life in these strangely dreadful yet nevertheless promising times.William Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States The Digital University is both a necessary and path-breaking book. It not only redefines within the current technological revolution diverse ways in which knowledge is produced, but also the spaces in which it takes place. In doing so, it provides both a much needed manifesto regarding how the digital revolution within the university is changing the relationship of individuals to themselves, others, and the larger world. The Digital University is an indispensable book for understanding how the university is changing in the age of digital reason, but also how matters of human rights, the mission of education in the twenty-first century, and the political economy of knowledge, present new challenges and call for a new theoretical, political and educational discourse. This book is a must read for anyone concerned about the interface of technology, knowledge, and the future of democracy itself.Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Canada This is an extraordinarily important book by two extraordinary educators and with an ensemble cast of intellectuals and visionaries. I found the book difficult to put down. The Digital University raises crucial questions for our time: Are we programmed to remain complacent, trapped in the feedback loop of the social machine, where closure is nonexistent, or can we ride bareback the ontologico-technical shift that is arcing throughout cyberspace, further and further from the here-and-now without trigging a non-digital nuclear apocalypse? Can we really harness the mighty powers of multidirectional and interactive practices so that they will lead us to a safe zone of recursive self-improvement, freeing us of oppressive hierarchies and the single technical system of algorithmic capitalism? Will we use technology to revitalize the intellectual commons and in doing so create a counter-public sphere or will we simply re-capitulate old hierarchies in the name of a new participatory, networked democracy? The Digital University is an experiment in-the-making and a book that must be engaged by educators everywhere.Peter McLaren, Chapman University, United States Michael Adrian Peters and Petar Jandri present a highly accessible and inclusive breadth of vision in The Digital University. As such, there is scope to more than simply turn our heads one-by-one, from within our personal digital versions, of Platos Cave. This volume has power to challenge our assumptions collectively. We are reminded that any university that merely applies information systems

Michael Adrian Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. His interests are in education, philosophy, and social policy, and he has written over sixty books. Petar Jandri is Professor of Digital Learning and Programme Director of BSc (Informatics) at the University of Applied Sciences in Zagreb (Croatia), and he is also Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb (Croatia). His research interests are focused on the intersections between critical pedagogy and digital cultures.

Acknowledgements Introduction Internet Universality: Human Rights and Principles for the Internet Technological Unemployment: Educating for the Fourth Industrial Revolution The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason: Fast Knowledge in the Circuits of Cybernetic Capitalism Educational Web Science Digital Archives in the Cloud: Collective Memory, Institutional Histories, and the Disclosure of Information The Political Economy of Informational Democracy The Eco-University in the Green Age Who Is Really in Charge of Contemporary Education? People and Technologies in, Against, and Beyond the Neoliberal University Conversation With Fred Turner, U.S. Historian of Digital Technologies: From the Electronic Frontier to the Anthropocene Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and the Co-creation of Social Goods Toward a Philosophy of Academic Publishing Collective Writing: An Inquiry Into Praxis Conversation With Pierre A. Levy, French Philosopher of Collective Intelligence Inside the Global Teaching Machine: MOOCs, Academic Labour, and the Future of the University Philosophy of Education in the Age of Digital Reason Learning, Creative Col(labor)ation, and Knowledge Cultures Digital Reading: From the Reflective Self to Social Machine The Digital Self A Vision of the Digital University: Radical Openness, Creative Labour, and the Co-production of Symbolic Goods Prologue to the Digital University Manifesto The Digital University Manifesto Index.