This timely book offers a detailed, multidisciplinary view on the radical changes in higher education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters carefully investigate how the pandemic led to massive disruption in the sector, examining the contentious politics involved, and managerial and policy changes that stemmed from this unprecedented crisis. Dually focused on recent events and imminent futures, this insightful book addresses questions raised about the nature of post-pandemic learning, for instance interrogating digital changes and their permanency. Institutional changes are observed on three different levels: micro, meso and macro. Ultimately this book successfully recounts past events and hypothesizes potential future developments within the sector. Building the Post-Pandemic University will be crucial for students engaging in critical university studies, education policy, digital sociology and higher education studies. It will also be of interest for university policy makers seeking to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the higher education system.

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Contents: Foreword: Biopolitics, truth, and collective intelligence in the era of viral modernity xv Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University Introduction to Building the Post-Pandemic University 1 Mark A. Carrigan, Hannah Moscovitz, Michele Martini and Susan L. Robertson PART I IMAGINING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 1 Scenarios as a device for forming common futures: plurality and the post-pandemic university 20 Matt Finch and Richard Sandford 2 Really useful knowledge in a postdigital age 38 Petar Jandrić 3 The cloud campus: imagining and investing in the digital future of higher education 60 Ben Williamson 4 Ghosts in the machine: re-imagining the digital as a new form of materiality for post-pandemic education 78 Annouchka Bayley 5 The future of online learning and higher education in the post-pandemic world 92 Anastasia Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides, Matthew Montebello, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis PART II CONTESTING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 6 Re-imagining hybrid pedagogies: lessons from the pandemic using the Diffusion of Innovation model 111 Emma Thirkell and Dale Munday 7 Expectations of Ecuadorian higher education in a time of uncertainty: a comparison between the perceptions of students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020/21) 136 Anne Carr, Monica Martinez and Patricia Ortega 8 The plague years in Australian higher education 169 Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas and Ben Whitburn 9 Tweeting the pandemic: universities and epistemic leadership in times of crisis 186 Michele Martini 10 Technocultural politics of the academic office in the age of endemic COVID-19 and what follows 202 Jeremy Hunsinger PART III MATERIALIZING THE POST-PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY 11 Enacting Compassion during the pandemic: academic staff experiences of a No Detriment Policy on pass/fail assessment 217 Vikki Hill 12 Post-pandemic expressions of (digital) ujamaa: the case of the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) 235 Maryam Jaffar Ismail, Said A.S. Yunus and Michael Gallagher 13 Let’s change the narrative: using podcasting to plot(twist) the future of the university 257 Simone Eringfeld 14 The rules that govern digital learning spaces: how learning platforms regulate the way we teach 276 Bernd Justin Jütte and Giulia Schneider 15 The varieties of online learning experience: a study of the infodemic 293 J.J. Sylvia IV Conclusion to Building the Post-Pandemic University 310 Mark A. Carrigan, Hannah Moscovitz, Michele Martini and Susan L. Robertson Index