caa a22 4500 463161947 CHVBK 20180406164750.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10734-007-9051-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10734-007-9051-y Williams Peter Institute for Learning, Scarborough School of Education, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, Filey Road, YO11 3AZ, Scarborough, UK aut Valid knowledge: the economy and the academy [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Williams] The future of Western universities as public institutions is the subject of extensive continuing debate, underpinned by the issue of what constitutes valid knowledge. Where in the past only propositional knowledge codified by academics was considered valid, in the new economy enabled by information and communications technology, the procedural knowledge of expertise has become a key commodity, and the acquisition of this expertise is increasingly seen as a priority by intending university students. Universities have traditionally proved adaptable to changing circumstances, but there is little evidence to date of their success in accommodating to the scale and unprecedented pace of change of the Knowledge Economy or to the new vocationally-oriented demands of their course clients. And in addition to these external factors, internal ones are now at work. Recent developments in eLearning have enabled the infiltration of commercial providers who are cherry-picking the most lucrative subject areas. The prospect is of a fracturing higher education system, with the less adaptable universities consigned to a shrinking public-funded sector supporting less vocationally saleable courses, and the more enterprising universities developing commercial partnerships in eLearning and knowledge transfer. This paper analyses pressures upon universities, their attempts to adapt to changing circumstances, and the institutional transformations which may result. It is concluded that a diversity of partnerships will emerge for the capture and transfer of knowledge, combining expertise from the economy with the conceptual frameworks of the academy. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Forms of knowledge nationallicence Knowledge economy nationallicence Learning technologies nationallicence University futures nationallicence Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/4(2007-10-01), 511-523 0018-1560 54:4<511 2007 54 10734 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-007-9051-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-007-9051-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Williams Peter Institute for Learning, Scarborough School of Education, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, Filey Road, YO11 3AZ, Scarborough, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/4(2007-10-01), 511-523 0018-1560 54:4<511 2007 54 10734 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer