The Translational Design of Universities : An Evidence-Based Approach

Kenn Fisher

ISBN 10: 9004391584 / ISBN 13: 9789004391581

Edité par Brill Mai 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Whilst schools are transforming their physical and virtual environments at a relatively glacial pace in most countries across the globe, universities are under extreme pressure to adapt to the rapid emergence of the virtual campus. Competition for students by online course providers is resulting in a rapidly emerging understanding of what the nature of the traditional campus will look like in the 21st century. The blended virtual and physical technology enabled, hybrid learning environments now integrate the face-to-face and online virtual experience synchronously and asynchronously. Local branch campuses are emerging in city and town centres and international branch campuses are growing at a rapid rate. There is increasing pressure at various levels, i.e. the city, the urban and the campus, to create formal and informal learning spaces as well as re-purposing the library and social or third-spaces. Many new hybrid campus developments are not based on any form of rigorous scholarly evidence. The risk is that many of these projects may fail. In taking an evidence-based approach this book seeks to align with the model of translational research from medical practice, using a modified 'translational design' approach. The majority of the chapter material comes from the scholarly work of doctoral graduates and their dissertations. This book is the second in a series on the evidence-based translational design of educational institutions, with the first volume focussing on schools. This volume on Higher Education covers the city to the classroom and those elements in between. It also explores what the future might look like as judgements are made about what works in campus planning and design in our rapidly changing virtual and physical worlds. Contributors are: Neda Abbasi, Ronald Beckers, Flavia Curvelo Magdaniel, Mollie Dollinger, Robert A. Ellis, Kenn Fisher, Barry J. Fraser, Kobi (Jacov) Haina, Rifca Hashimshony, Leah Irving, Marian Mahat, Saadia Majeed, Jacqueline Pizzuti-Ashby, Leanne Rose-Munro, Mahmoud Reza Saghafi, Panayiotis Skordi, Alejandra Torres-Landa Lopez, and Ji Yu.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Translational Design of Universities : An Evidence-Based Approach
• Éditeur: Brill Mai 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9004391584
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789004391581
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 239 L x 160 H x 23 P (en millimètres) 239 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 23 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 658 grammes

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Synopsis

The evidence-based Translational Design of Universities forensically researches hybrid - or blended - learning environments. Ten of the 14 Chapters are based on doctoral dissertations providing a rare insight into the effectiveness of HE learning spaces, both virtual and physical.

À propos de l'auteur

Kenn Fisher, Ph.D. (2003), Flinders University of South Australia, practices 50:50 as a research academic and as an education/health planner linking evidence-based research with practice through the concept of translational design. An Associate Professor at Melbourne University he has been instrumental in winning AU$5million worth of learning environments research projects in the past 10 years.