IF THERE BE CHANGE NO CHANGE I SEE": THE EFFECT OF E- LEARNING ON TODAY'S HIGHER EDUCATION (original) (raw)

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This paper addresses some of the important changes that the arrival of e-learning is bringing about in Higher Education today while also posing, and to a certain extent answering, the question as to how much Higher Education can effect the way that e-learning itself is changing. As such the paper is essentially about the confluence of two very different traditions, the first of which is very new and the other which is really extremely old. Few of us in fact, except perhaps those who work in Europe's ancient ivy-covered cloistered universities, realise just how very old our notions of higher education actually are, how unchanged they've remained since medieval times and, or indeed, perhaps beyond that, since the time of the Greek-Alexandrian university. Europe's oldest university, the University of Bologna, founded in 1088, to take a concrete example, continues to offer courses supported by a generic structures of faculties, deans, rectors, chancellors etc 1 in much the same way as it has for over 900 years.

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