Rethinking the Academy:
Problems and Possibilities of Teaching, Scholarship, Authority,
and Power in Electronic Environments.
How to Navigate This Text Without Getting Lost
Typographic Conventions
Demo Page: What a Node (or "Note")
Looks Like and How It Operates
One Way of Reading This Essay (Or: "The Table of Contents")
Preface: An Abstract for This Web
I: Print Conventions: The Problem
of Hypertext
II: Problems and Possibilities in the Face-to-Face (Physical)
University
- Traditional Ways of Making Scholarship
- Traditional Ways of Teaching
- Financial Issues and the Traditional System
- Authority and Power Issues in the Traditional System
III: Problems and Possibilities in the Cycademy (The Virtual University)
- Electronic Ways of Doing Scholarship
- Electronic Ways of Teaching
- Financial Issues and the Virtual University
- Authority and Power Issues in the Virtual University
IV: One Solution - The Virtual Department
- The Cycles Project
- The TicToc Project
- E-Works
- Current Efforts
V: Fashioning the Cycademy
- What Might the Cycademy Look Like?
- Possibilities and Problems
- How Do We Start?
- The Future of Virtual Departments
VI: Rethinking the Cycademy -- Authority and Power Issues Revisited
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