The University in the Digital Age Export

@article{citeulike:5536396, abstract = {The university's value, we claim, lies in the complex relationship it creates between knowledge, communities, and credentials. Changes contemplated in either the institutional structure or technological infrastructure of the university should recognize this relationship. In particular, any change should seek to improve the ability of students to work directly with knowledge-creating communities. We offer a couple of examples of currently successful Internet-supported teaching that suggest how technology can do this. Then we explore some hypothetical institutional arrangements that might enable the university to take the fullest advantage of these emerging technological possibilities.}, author = {Brown, John S. and Duguid, Paul}, citeulike-article-id = {5536396}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~duguid/SLOFI/U_in_Digital_Age.htm}, comment = {"So the lack of apparent change in university life in the past 25 years isn't simply a matter of computational backwardness. It's probably truer to say universities are schizophrenic, a combination of high-powered computational centers and highly conventional institutional practices. Indeed, the advanced technological infrastructure of a university is itself probably as good an indicator of a certain strain of institutional conservatism as any. Those institutions that were able to accumulate the resources (financial, intellectual, social) to develop a computer-intensive infrastructure were most likely to be large, wealthy, and above all (despite Sch\"{o}n's pleas) profoundly stable. After all, building the Internet wasn't a job for the 7-11 franchise."}, journal = {Times Higher Education Supplement}, keywords = {community, credentials, digital\_age, higher\_education, knowledge, knowledge\_creation, tertiary\_education}, month = {May}, pages = {1--4}, posted-at = {2009-08-21 13:18:15}, priority = {2}, title = {The University in the Digital Age}, url = {http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~duguid/SLOFI/U_in_Digital_Age.htm}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5536396 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5536396 N2 - The university's value, we claim, lies in the complex relationship it creates between knowledge, communities, and credentials. Changes contemplated in either the institutional structure or technological infrastructure of the university should recognize this relationship. In particular, any change should seek to improve the ability of students to work directly with knowledge-creating communities. We offer a couple of examples of currently successful Internet-supported teaching that suggest how technology can do this. Then we explore some hypothetical institutional arrangements that might enable the university to take the fullest advantage of these emerging technological possibilities. JF - Times Higher Education Supplement EP - 4 TI - The University in the Digital Age SP - 1 KW - community KW - credentials KW - digital_age KW - higher_education KW - knowledge KW - knowledge_creation KW - tertiary_education N1 - "So the lack of apparent change in university life in the past 25 years isn't simply a matter of computational backwardness. It's probably truer to say universities are schizophrenic, a combination of high-powered computational centers and highly conventional institutional practices. Indeed, the advanced technological infrastructure of a university is itself probably as good an indicator of a certain strain of institutional conservatism as any. Those institutions that were able to accumulate the resources (financial, intellectual, social) to develop a computer-intensive infrastructure were most likely to be large, wealthy, and above all (despite Schön's pleas) profoundly stable. After all, building the Internet wasn't a job for the 7-11 franchise." AU - Brown, John AU - Duguid, Paul PY - 1996/05// UR - http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~duguid/SLOFI/U_in_Digital_Age.htm ER -