Digital Technology and the Contemporary University: Degrees of digitization

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  title={Digital Technology and the Contemporary University: Degrees of digitization},
  author={Allan Jones},
  year={2014},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:106616554}
}
  • Allan Jones
  • Published 13 May 2014
  • Education, Computer Science
Beyond the rhetoric of the digital university, the realities of universities and digital technology are revealed and the future of universities in the digital age is reimagined.
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