Effective Leadership for Overcoming ICT Challenges in Higher Education

Antonella Carbonaro is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy. Her research focuses on customization and content-based processing of information for data and knowledge representation with semantic web technologies. Jennifer Moss Breen is Associate Professor at Creighton University, USA, where she serves as program director and faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Leadership Doctoral Program. Her research interests focus on leadership humility, leader resilience, interdisciplinary leadership, and more.

• Chapter 1. Starting our Conversation; Antonella Carbonaro and Jennifer Moss BreenChapter 2. Russian Higher Education: What Does the Future Hold?; Zoe ShneiderChapter 3. Online Education for Students Living at the Margins: One U.S. University's Outreach; Gretchen Oltman and Martha HabashChapter 4. Caught in Between: Managing Students and Teaching Affairs in University in Transition; KrzysztofKosovskaChapter 5. Overcoming Chaos by Applying Constructive Controversy into the ICT-Conscious Institution; JenniferMoss BreenChapter 6. E-Leadership as an Enabling Function for Technology-Enriched Learning; Rob ElkingtonChapter 7. Digital Leadership in Education; Mohan Tanniru and Jesus PeralChapter 8. VUCA Learning-environments Demand Complex Data and Knowledge Management; Antonella CarbonaroChapter 9: Faculty Leadership in Learning Environments Based on Free Access to Information on theInternet; Raquel Perez-delHoyo, Higinio Mora, Pablo Marti and Rafael Molla-SirventChapter 10. The ICT-paradox: Chances and Barriers for Modernization in Higher Education Institutions; Balazs SarvariChapter 11. Moving from Chaos to Clarity in an ICT-Conscious Institution: A Final Word; Antonella Carbonaro and Jennifer Moss Breen