Academic departments

About this book

Enormous changes are coming for higher education, some of which we discuss in the following section: increased economic pressures, opportunities for collaboration with business and industry, the rise of new higher education providers, public concerns about student access and learning, the potential of technology to alter boundaries of time and space, the creation of a global network of information and commerce through the World Wide Web, shifting student demographics and attitudes, and changes in academic belief systems about learning and teaching.