...Roger Pizarro Milian; Scott Davies Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the prospective impact of the future of work on universities. Design/methodology/approach Several brief case studies of heralded disruptors of higher education (HE) – including digital badges, for-profit...

...Maree Conway Purpose This study aims to identify and explore the nature of ideas of the university in the present to demonstrate how the ideas both enable and constrain the emergence of its possible futures. Design/methodology/approach An integrated literature review of work on the western...

...David W. Atkinson Purpose This paper aims to examine the new teaching universities created in British Columbia and Alberta over the past 10 years in the context of the multiple challenges faced by higher education today, including issues of purpose, culture, governance, accountability and finances...

... Education Evolving   Review of Kevin , C. (2015), The End of College: Creating the University of Everywhere, Riverhead Books, New York, NY © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Internet...

...Christine Greenhow; Benjamin Gleason Purpose – This paper aims to provide a re-envisioning of traditional conceptualizations of scholarship informed by knowledge assets theory, trends shaping the modern university and technological advancements. We introduce social scholarship, a set of scholarly...

... institutions. Design/methodology/approach – This editorial piece is a cross-disciplinary critical analysis. Findings – Universities are faced with a series of disruptive innovations. While academia applies the theories of disruptive innovation to a variety of institutions...

... level of education in general and post‐secondary programs in particular. Tom P. Abeles can be contacted at: tabeles@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United States of America Education Universities Post‐secondary Baccalaureate Institutional change Knowledge...

...Sohail Inayatullah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to overview the futures of the university by analyzing critical drivers. It also aims to assess drivers identified a decade ago on university futures. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews drivers, trends...

... with their thumbnails. A United States company, Straighterline, www.straighterline.com , is offering students, low cost, nationally accredited courses which can lead to a degree from a recognized college. The list of free courses in many disciplines being provided by recognized universities and faculty...

... The application of an integral approach to learning and new media provides the originality for this paper. The transformation of the university is not just a good idea. It is an imperative, and evidence is mounting that the consequences of further delay may be dire…change is required in two vast...

... education futures. Findings Advances in virtual connectivity will deconstruct the traditional idea of a university while also challenging the economic models used by students in determining their future. Originality/value The increasing research and analysis of the ubiquity...

... realized through access by individuals of public knowledge and the willingness of some institutions to change their model of working with students and validating their competencies, institutions such as Western Governors University and private companies such as Straighterline and its sister tutoring...

... learning Universities Digital technology Hinssen (2010) defines the concept “new normal” as a phase in the digitalisation of society, now about halfway complete, where technologies will not be framed as technology, but rather part of everyday life. In this emerging new conception, there is zero...

...Nadin Dörner; Felicitas Morhart; Oliver Gassmann; Torsten Tomczak Purpose This paper presents an inter‐institutional collaboration project. The project's goal was to develop a new teaching program that fosters pre‐university innovation and entrepreneurship education. The purpose of this paper...

... the universities of the future. Design/methodology/approach The article uses the metaphor of an Edgar Allen Poe character, M. Valdemar, to discuss the current state of the education system, particularly questioning its health and what the future might hold. Findings The present...

... theoretical concepts the article shows that there is a desperate need for rethinking education from being something limited in time and place to something that is ever present in knowledge processes of all kinds. Education Universities Knowledge processes © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... of the Spellings Commission in the USA while the other, a study of the European Bologna Process, holds the hope that there might be lessons for the USA's traditional colleges and universities. Findings Both of the authors are concerned with the current and future state of post‐secondary education...

...Robert A. Scott; Darryl G. Greer; Michael W. Klein Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest public service corporations as a new means of helping to finance comprehensive public colleges and universities based on a well‐documented assumption that the current shared responsibility...

... not listening. Listen to people, to cues, to the heritage of the institution. Say “Thank you.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Leadership Higher education Universities Community relations Fundraising Management styles It is useful to review books on their arrival...

...Francesco A. Calabrese; Francesco A. Calabrese Purpose The purpose of this paper is to convey background and historical settings on the evolution of knowledge management research and practices since the late 1990s in programs of The George Washington University (GWU), Washington, DC...