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Agents of Change

Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University

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Editors:
  1. Gabriele Kreutzner
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  2. Heidi Schelhowe
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Gabriele Kreutzner, Heidi Schelhowe
      Pages 7-22

  3. Research and Knowledge in the Information Age: Selected Feminist Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Transnationalizing Tertiary Education in a Global Information Society

      • Eva Hartmann
      Pages 25-42

    3. Open and Virtual Universities

      • Gill Kirkup
      Pages 43-56

    4. Compromising Women: Teaching Composition Online and at a Distance in the United States

      • Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher
      Pages 57-71

    5. The Material Foundation of Virtual Subjectivity

      • Rosi Braidotti
      Pages 73-85

    6. ICT-Representations as Transformative Critical Rooms

      • Cecile K. M. Crutzen
      Pages 87-106

  4. The vifu Project: Inside and Outside Assessments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Driven by User-Orientation, Participation and Interaction: vifu — Virtual Women’s University (www.vifu.de)

      • Gabriele Kreutzner, Heidi Schelhowe, Barbara Schelkle
      Pages 109-123

    3. Computer Training at vifu: Digging Out Curiosity

      • Seda Gürses
      Pages 125-131

    4. Lessons to be Learned from the Project and Process of Supported E-Learning at the Virtual Women’s University

      • Birgit Oelker, Herbert Asselmeyer
      Pages 133-146

    5. Intelligent Online Knowledge Resources for Instructional Learning. Computer-Supported and Computer-Aided Design for Online Knowledge Resources

      • Heidrun Allert, Hadhami Dhraief, Wolfgang Nejdl
      Pages 147-154

    6. The Users’ vifu

      • Melanie Dunn, Mara-Anahi Kuhl
      Pages 155-159

    7. Information Architecture and Networks at vifu — Continuation of the Project in 2002

      • Maika Büschenfeldt, Birte Plutat, Heidi Schelhowe, Isabel Zorn
      Pages 161-177

    8. The Hype and the Morning After — What We Have Learned about E-Learning

      • Barbara Maria Grüter
      Pages 179-188

  5. From Traditional University to Networks of Shared Knowledge and Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Women on the Net: the Internet as a Tool for Social Transformation

      • Wendy Harcourt
      Pages 191-200

    3. How ICT Plays a Role in Social Movement — The Case of Africa

      • Fatma Alloo
      Pages 201-203

    4. Productive Differences — Virtual Networks Call for Heterogeneity’

      • Tanja Paulitz
      Pages 205-218
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About this book

The university as we have known it is undergoing massive transformations. This observation is commonly made these days during discussions of the future of our academic system(s). While it certainly holds true for the "Western" strong­ holds of our globe, it likewise applies to a wide variety of marginalized contexts and locations beyond. For historical reasons, universities and academic systems differ considerably from place to place. However, the transformative process under analysis here is driven by major economic and technological develop­ ments generally subsumed under the label 'globalization'. And although, the contemporary world deliberately puts the stress on change and 'the new', the traditional academic systems are challenged by the great juggernaut of global­ ized transformation on the level of the particular and the local. In our view, the ongonig changes are neither reason for celebration nor de­ spair. What motivated us to put this volume together was our curiosity about these processes of change, as well as our awareness of their significance, our partisanship for particular directions that they mayor may not take and, last but not least, our insight into their complexities and heterogeneous, even contradic­ tory, outcomes.

About the authors

Dr. Gabriele Kreutzner, Interenationale Frauenuniversität Hannover;
Dr. Heidi Schelhowe, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agents of Change

  • Book Subtitle: Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University

  • Editors: Gabriele Kreutzner, Heidi Schelhowe

  • Series Title: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91354-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3492-2Published: 30 September 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-91354-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 224

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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