Universitas (Paperback)
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Inline Internet Online Gmbh, 2026
- Brossura
- Nuovo
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
Venditore AbeBooks dal 12 ottobre 2005
Condizione: Nuovo
EUR 58,83
Quantità: 1 disponibile
Aggiungi al carrelloDescrizione dell’articolo da parte del venditore
Paperback. Universitas: Designing a University from First Principles begins with the oldest European university, Bologna, where students organised first and the institution followed. Looking at where we are today, something seems to have gotten lost along the way. Using principles of Software Engineering, the author develops a way of desinging the future of higher education from first principles. The book argues that many recurring problems in universities are not caused by a lack of motivation, talent, or goodwill. They are produced by recurring patterns within structures and humans in historically grown organisations. Decisions take too long. Participation becomes symbolic. Innovation depends on individual champions. Flexible pathways become confusing. Recognition of prior learning remains unpredictable. Quality assurance documents process but does not always see learning. The same problems return across institutions, roles, and reform efforts because the architecture underneath has not changed.Drawing on more than thirty years inside higher education, as student, lecturer, professor, programme designer, researcher, senator, equality officer, and reform participant across seven countries, Berkling combines lived institutional experience with a method borrowed from software architecture: design patterns.At the heart of the book are blank-slate dialogues with experts who know higher education from different positions. Each was asked the same question: if money, politics, and IT constraints were solved issues, and you had the power to create a university from scratch, what would it look like? The themes and principles derived from these conversations are translated into a pattern language for institutional design: recurring antipatterns that make universities fail predictably, and corresponding design patterns that show how they might be built differently.The final part develops the Open University of Germany as a worked institutional prototype: a fictive but serious public university model designed for modular, stackable, lifelong learning. Its governance, curriculum, quality assurance, legal structure, finance, accreditation logic, and implementation documents are treated as one architecture based on design patterns and evaluated along a maturity signature of their design goals.The book is written for university leaders, policymakers, accreditation experts, programme designers, academic staff, students, and institutional innovators who already sense that something in the system is not working as well as it could and need a language precise enough to name it.A university does not become learner-centred because of a single statment or vision. It becomes learner-centred when its structures are designed to survive budgets, committees, leadership changes, legal constraints, and time.This book proposed the design patterns and an implementation that any new university can give itself and any historical university can evaluate itself against, set goals and measure it's own maturity against those goals. Just like the class desing patterns in Software Engineering, this book is intended as a reference catalogue and the Open University of Germany as an implementable prototype. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Codice articolo 9783948789022
- Titolo
- Universitas (Paperback)
- Autore
- Kay Berkling
- Editore
- Inline Internet Online Gmbh
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 3948789029
- ISBN 13
- 9783948789022
Universitas: Designing a University from First Principles begins with the oldest European university, Bologna, where students organised first and the institution followed. Looking at where we are today, something seems to have gotten lost along the way. Using principles of Software Engineering, the author develops a way of desinging the future of higher education from first principles.
The book argues that many recurring problems in universities are not caused by a lack of motivation, talent, or goodwill. They are produced by recurring patterns within structures and humans in historically grown organisations. Decisions take too long. Participation becomes symbolic. Innovation depends on individual champions. Flexible pathways become confusing. Recognition of prior learning remains unpredictable. Quality assurance documents process but does not always see learning. The same problems return across institutions, roles, and reform efforts because the architecture underneath has not changed.
Drawing on more than thirty years inside higher education, as student, lecturer, professor, programme designer, researcher, senator, equality officer, and reform participant across seven countries, Berkling combines lived institutional experience with a method borrowed from software architecture: design patterns.
At the heart of the book are blank-slate dialogues with experts who know higher education from different positions. Each was asked the same question: if money, politics, and IT constraints were solved issues, and you had the power to create a university from scratch, what would it look like?
The themes and principles derived from these conversations are translated into a pattern language for institutional design: recurring antipatterns that make universities fail predictably, and corresponding design patterns that show how they might be built differently.
The final part develops the Open University of Germany as a worked institutional prototype: a fictive but serious public university model designed for modular, stackable, lifelong learning. Its governance, curriculum, quality assurance, legal structure, finance, accreditation logic, and implementation documents are treated as one architecture based on design patterns and evaluated along a maturity signature of their design goals.
The book is written for university leaders, policymakers, accreditation experts, programme designers, academic staff, students, and institutional innovators who already sense that something in the system is not working as well as it could and need a language precise enough to name it.
A university does not become learner-centred because of a single statment or vision. It becomes learner-centred when its structures are designed to survive budgets, committees, leadership changes, legal constraints, and time.
This book proposed the design patterns and an implementation that any new university can give itself and any historical university can evaluate itself against, set goals and measure it's own maturity against those goals. Just like the class desing patterns in Software Engineering, this book is intended as a reference catalogue and the Open University of Germany as an implementable prototype.
"Riassunto" può appartenere a un’altra edizione di questo titolo.
Grand Eagle Retail
Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Venditore AbeBooks dal 12 ottobre 2005
Tariffe di spedizione nazionale per U.S.A.
| Articolo | Da 6 a 14 giorni lavorativi | Da 6 a 16 giorni lavorativi |
|---|---|---|
| Primo articolo | EUR 0,00 | EUR 0,00 |
Metodi di pagamento
Informazioni sull’azienda del venditore
APOLLO ONLINE CORP.
605 Geddes Street
Wilmington, DE U.S.A. 19805
Condizioni di vendita
We guarantee the condition of every book as it¿s described on the Abebooks web sites. If you¿ve changed
your mind about a book that you¿ve ordered, please use the Ask bookseller a question link to contact us
and we¿ll respond within 2 business days.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
Diritto di recesso
Se sei un consumatore puoi recedere dal contratto in conformità con quanto segue. Per Consumatore si intende qualsiasi persona fisica che agisce per scopi estranei alla propria attività commerciale, imprenditoriale, artigianale o professionale.
Informazioni sul diritto di recesso
Diritto legale di recesso
Hai il diritto di recedere dal presente contratto entro 14 giorni senza fornire alcuna motivazione.
Il periodo di recesso scade dopo 14 giorni dal giorno in cui tu o una terza parte, diversa dal vettore e da te indicata, acquisisce il possesso fisico dell'ultimo bene o dell'ultimo lotto o pezzo.
Per esercitare il diritto di recesso, compila e invia elettronicamente una dichiarazione esplicita sul nostro sito Web, alla voce “I miei acquisti” nella sezione “Mio account”. Ti comunicheremo senza indugio una conferma di ricezione di tale recesso su un supporto durevole (ad es. via e-mail).
Per rispettare il termine di recesso, è sufficiente inviare la comunicazione relativa all'esercizio del diritto di recesso prima della scadenza del periodo di recesso stesso.
Effetti del recesso
In caso di recesso dal presente contratto, ti rimborseremo tutti i pagamenti ricevuti, compresi i costi di spedizione (ad eccezione dei costi supplementari derivanti dalla tua eventuale scelta di un tipo di spedizione diverso dal tipo meno costoso di consegna standard da noi offerto).
Potremo effettuare una detrazione dal rimborso per la perdita di valore dei beni forniti, qualora tale perdita sia il risultato di una manipolazione non necessaria da parte tua.
Eseguiremo il rimborso senza indebito ritardo e non oltre 14 giorni dal giorno in cui saremo informati della tua decisione di recedere dal presente contratto.
Il rimborso sarà effettuato utilizzando lo stesso mezzo di pagamento da te usato per la transazione iniziale, salvo che tu non abbia espressamente concordato altrimenti; in ogni caso, non dovrai sostenere alcun costo quale conseguenza di tale rimborso.
Possiamo trattenere il rimborso finché non avremo ricevuto i beni oppure finché non avrai fornito la prova di averli rispediti, a seconda di quale condizione si verifichi per prima.
Dovrai rispedire i beni o consegnarli a Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, Illinois, U.S.A., senza indebito ritardo e, in ogni caso, entro 14 giorni dal giorno in cui ci hai comunicato la tua volontà di recedere dal presente contratto. Il termine è rispettato se rispedisci i beni prima della scadenza del periodo di 14 giorni. I costi diretti della restituzione dei beni saranno a tuo carico. Sei responsabile solo della diminuzione del valore dei beni risultante da una manipolazione diversa da quella necessaria per stabilire la natura, le caratteristiche e il funzionamento dei beni stessi.
Eccezioni al diritto di recesso
Il diritto di recesso non si applica a:
- La fornitura di giornali, periodici o riviste ad eccezione dei contratti di abbonamento; e
- La fornitura di contenuto digitale non fornito su un supporto materiale (ad es. su un CD o DVD), se al momento dell'invio dell'ordine hai accettato l'inizio dell'esecuzione e hai riconosciuto che non avresti potuto recedere una volta iniziata l'esecuzione.
Condizioni di spedizione
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. All books within the US ship free of charge. Delivery is 4-14 business days anywhere in the United States.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.