Prospects and Future Tasks of Universities ─ Digitalization - Internationalization - Differentiation

From the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development, this 29-chapter book brings together specialists from different academic fields in Europe and the US to discuss future tasks of higher education in Austria and internationally, focusing on the function of digitalization, internationalization, and differentiation in the university’s role in solving global challenges. They consider the tasks of universities and cultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical aspects involved, including the value of liberal arts, trends and projections in educational attainment, the values of universities, and their changing structures; management, organization, and governance issues, such as autonomy, the “critical” university, teaching and research, performance agreements, and career paths and working conditions of academics; digitalization aspects, such as the need to integrate education, research, and collaboration, digital teaching and learning, digitalization strategies, global engagement, finding a third way between American and Asian models for European universities, and the influence of the US university system; and diversification and differentiation in higher education, including the nature of disciplines, the need for innovation, the purpose and goals of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, research funding, the future and responsibilities of the university from the perspective of business, Austrian universities of applied sciences, and the development of Austrian private universities. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)