首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
医学
The University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly
The University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly
admin
2013-12-06
40
问题
The University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly varied outlooks on tomorrow’s universities by writers representing both Western and non-Western perspectives. Their essays raise a broad range of issues, questioning nearly every key assumption we have about higher education today.
The most widely discussed alternative to the traditional campus is the Internet University — a voluntary community to scholars / teachers physically scattered throughout a country or around the world but all linked in cyberspace. A computerized university could have many advantages, such as easy scheduling, efficient delivery of lectures to thousands or even millions of students at once, and ready access for students everywhere to the resources of all the world’s great libraries.
Yet the Internet University poses dangers, too. For example, a line of franchised courseware, produced by a few superstar teachers, marketed under the brand name of a famous institution, and heavily advertised, might eventually come to dominate the global education market, warns sociology professor Peter Manicas of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Besides enforcing a rigidly standardized curriculum, such a "college education in a box" could undersell the offerings of many traditional brick and mortar institutions, effectively driving then out of business and throwing thousands of career academics out of work, note Australian communications professors David Rooney and Greg Hearn.
On the other hand, while global connectivity seems highly likely to play some significant role in future higher education, that does not mean greater uniformity in course content—or other dangers — will necessarily follow. Counter-movements are also at work.
Many in academia, including scholars contributing to this volume, are questioning the fundamental mission of university education. What if, for instance, instead of receiving primarily technical training and building their individual careers, university students and professors could focus their learning and research efforts on existing problems in their local communities and the world? Feminist scholar Ivana Milojevic dares to dream what a university might become "if we believed that child-care workers and teachers in early childhood education should be one of the highest(rather than lowest)paid professionals?"
Co-editor Jennifer Gidley shows how tomorrow’s university faculty, instead of giving lectures and conducting independent research, may take on three new roles. Some would act as brokers, assembling customized degree-credit programmes for individual students by mixing and matching the best course offerings available from institutions all around the world. A second group, mentors, would function much like today’s faculty advisers, but are likely to be working with many more students outside their own academic specialty. This would require them to constantly be learning from their students as well as instructing them.
A third new role for faculty, and in Gidley’s view the most challenging and rewarding of all, would be as meaning-makers: charismatic sages and practitioners leading groups of students / colleagues in collaborative efforts to find spiritual as well as rational and technological solutions to specific real-world problems.
Moreover, there seems little reason to suppose that any one form of university must necessarily drive out all other options. Students may be "enrolled" in courses offered at virtual campuses on the Internet, between — or even during — sessions at a real-world problem-focused institution.
As co-editor Sohail Inayatullah points out in his introduction, no future is inevitable, and the very act of imagining and thinking through alternative possibilities can directly affect how thoughtfully, creatively and urgently even a dominant technology is adapted and applied. Even in academia, the future belongs to those who care enough to work their visions into practical, sustainable realities.
Judging from the three new roles envisioned for tomorrow’s university faculty, university teachers______.
选项
A、are required to conduct more independent research
B、are required to offer more course to their students
C、are supposed to assume more demanding duties
D、are supposed to supervise more students in their specialty
答案
C
解析
老师的任务角色多了,他们会成为brokers,advisers,meaning-makers。A,B,D的内容被原文驳斥。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/gtNDFFFM
本试题收录于:
医学博士外语题库考研分类
0
医学博士外语
考研
相关试题推荐
下列哪项病变中无多核巨细胞
High-speedlivinghasbecomeafactoflife,andthefranticpaceistakingitstoll,accordingtosciencewriterJamesGleick.
Despitegrowingnumbersofjoggers,CanadaFitnessSurveysacrossthecountrydemonstratethatCanadiansarelessphysicallyfit
A、Headaches.B、Insomnia.C、Respiratoryproblems.D、Digestiveproblems.C录音开头讲到记日记的人更可能sufferfromheadaches,sleeplessness,digest
Atthistimeoftheyear,universityadmissionofficesare______withinquiriesfromanxiousapplicants.
Appliedresearch,undertakentosolvespecificpracticalproblems,hasanimmediateattractivenessbecausetheresultscanbese
Aresomepeopleborncleverandothersbornstupid?Orisintelligencedevelopedbyourenvironmentandourexperiences?Strange
A、TheprogrambeginsonSunday.B、He’11meetthewomanonSaturday.C、TheycouldwatchtheProgramonSunday.D、Hiscousinarri
A、Membersoftheclubarerequiredtoregisterwhentheyarrive.B、Theycanbringuptothreequests.C、Theyshouldregisterthe
Cellscannotremainaliveoutsidecertainlimitsoftemperature,andmuchnarrowerlimitsmarktheboundariesofeffectivefunct
随机试题
肾脏旋转异常的描述,不正确的是
某男,60岁。有慢性支气管炎及肺心病病史。近1周感冒后出现咳嗽、吐黄痰、心悸气短加重,神志清,血气分析在正常范围。下列哪种药物治疗是错误的
爆炸浓度极限的概念是什么?对于同种可燃气体,影响其爆炸极限的因素有哪些?
下面不是退休生活成本预算的步骤的选项是()。
Tidesarecreatedmainlybythepullofthemoonontheearth.Themoon’spullcauseswaterintheoceanstobealittledeeper
信息系统工程项目是由建设单位、承建单位和监理单位三方共同完成,以下相关描述不正确的是:(43)________。
广播式网络中.一个结点广播信息,其他结点都可以“听到”该信息,但其他结点是否接收该信息,取决于______。
WelcometoAdventure-land!EveryonelovesAdventure-land.Theparksandexhibitions(展览)werebuiltforyoutoexplore,enjoy
Aestheticsisbroaderinscopethanthephilosophyofart,whichcomprisesoneofitsbranches.【21】Itdealsnotonlywiththena
A、ShecanonlymakeitonSunday.B、Shedoesn’tliketabletennis.C、Shecan’tmakeitonSundayD、ShewilltrytomakeitonSu
最新回复
(
0
)