The Multifunctional Digital Centre A Concept for Developing Countries in the Electronic Age

Higher education faces multiple problems in the new millennium, and these are especially acute in developing countries, where expansion is taking place at the same time that state financing is declining and the challenges of technology, access and the maintenance of quality loom ever larger. The ide...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altbach, Philip G. (-)
Format: eBook Section
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 2001.
Series:PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building, no.2001/03.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706208506719
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Summary:Higher education faces multiple problems in the new millennium, and these are especially acute in developing countries, where expansion is taking place at the same time that state financing is declining and the challenges of technology, access and the maintenance of quality loom ever larger. The idea of the multifunctional digital centre (MDC) provides an important solution to some of the problems faced by higher education in developing countries and has lessons for industrialised nations as well.
Physical Description:1 online resource (3 p. )