Screen LibraryReinventing higher education：the promise of innovation
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Harvard Education Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 288 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781934742877 (pbk.) 1934742872 (pbk.) 9781934742884 1934742880 |
| Index Number: | G64 |
| CLC: | G64 |
| Call Number: | G64/R374 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Ben Wildavsky, Andrew P. Kelley, and Kevin Carey -- Barriers to innovation un U.S. higher education / Dominic J. Brewer and William G. Tierney -- Old school : four-hundred years of resistance to change / Jon Marcus -- Creative paths to boosting academic productivity / William F. Massy -- Rethinking the professoriate / Ronald G. Ehrenberg -- The promise, performance, and policies of community colleges / Paul Osterman -- For-profit sector innovations in business models and organizational cultures / Guilbert C. Hentschke -- What online learning can teach us about higher education "At its heart is the realization that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing professional, economic, and technological circumstances, and if it is to prepare a vast population of students--traditional and nontraditional alike--for success in the coming decades. It examines the current higher education environment and its chronic resistance to change; the rise of for-profit universities; the potential future role of community colleges in a significantly revised higher education realm; and the emergence of online learning as a means to reshape teaching |