Abstract
Universities and schools are profoundly impacted and transformed by the availability of cheap, pervasive, and widely used technologies that enable to introduce new forms of education and learning. This change has generated many expectations (and fears) about the new role of education institutions: do we still need them? What is their role going to be? This paper summarizes some arguments and suggestions on this topic, based on author’s experiences. The paper does not aim at providing definite answers, but to contribute to an open discussion and reflection on such an important and critical topic.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
John Lauerm. “Harvard, MIT Online courses Dropped by 95 % of Registrants”. bloomberg.com, January, 21st, 2014.
References
Fuggetta, A.: 3+1 challenges for the future of universities. J. Syst. Soft. 85, 2417–2424 (2012)
Fuggetta, A.: Advance knowledge, evolve society. In: Mori, K. (ed.) Concept-Oriented Research and Development in Information Technology. Wiley, Hoboken (to appear)
Lewin, T.: Universities abroad join partnerships on the web. The New York Times, February 20 (2013)
Acknowledgments
I want to thank my colleague Luigi Cocchiarella for the invitation to contribute on this topic and for his stimulating comments and insights.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Fuggetta, A. (2015). How Internet Changes Universities. In: Cocchiarella, L. (eds) The Visual Language of Technique. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05326-4_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05326-4_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-05325-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-05326-4
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)