Universitas (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Inline Internet Online Gmbh, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Condition: New
£ 47.40
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Paperback. Universitas: Designing a University from First Principles begins with the oldest European university, Bologna, where students organised first and the institution followed. Looking at where we are today, something seems to have gotten lost along the way. Using principles of Software Engineering, the author develops a way of desinging the future of higher education from first principles. The book argues that many recurring problems in universities are not caused by a lack of motivation, talent, or goodwill. They are produced by recurring patterns within structures and humans in historically grown organisations. Decisions take too long. Participation becomes symbolic. Innovation depends on individual champions. Flexible pathways become confusing. Recognition of prior learning remains unpredictable. Quality assurance documents process but does not always see learning. The same problems return across institutions, roles, and reform efforts because the architecture underneath has not changed.Drawing on more than thirty years inside higher education, as student, lecturer, professor, programme designer, researcher, senator, equality officer, and reform participant across seven countries, Berkling combines lived institutional experience with a method borrowed from software architecture: design patterns.At the heart of the book are blank-slate dialogues with experts who know higher education from different positions. Each was asked the same question: if money, politics, and IT constraints were solved issues, and you had the power to create a university from scratch, what would it look like? The themes and principles derived from these conversations are translated into a pattern language for institutional design: recurring antipatterns that make universities fail predictably, and corresponding design patterns that show how they might be built differently.The final part develops the Open University of Germany as a worked institutional prototype: a fictive but serious public university model designed for modular, stackable, lifelong learning. Its governance, curriculum, quality assurance, legal structure, finance, accreditation logic, and implementation documents are treated as one architecture based on design patterns and evaluated along a maturity signature of their design goals.The book is written for university leaders, policymakers, accreditation experts, programme designers, academic staff, students, and institutional innovators who already sense that something in the system is not working as well as it could and need a language precise enough to name it.A university does not become learner-centred because of a single statment or vision. It becomes learner-centred when its structures are designed to survive budgets, committees, leadership changes, legal constraints, and time.This book proposed the design patterns and an implementation that any new university can give itself and any historical university can evaluate itself against, set goals and measure it's own maturity against those goals. Just like the class desing patterns in Software Engineering, this book is intended as a reference catalogue and the Open University of Germany as an implementable prototype. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9783948789022
- Title
- Universitas (Paperback)
- Author
- Kay Berkling
- Publisher
- Inline Internet Online Gmbh
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3948789029
- ISBN 13
- 9783948789022
Universitas: Designing a University from First Principles begins with the oldest European university, Bologna, where students organised first and the institution followed. Looking at where we are today, something seems to have gotten lost along the way. Using principles of Software Engineering, the author develops a way of desinging the future of higher education from first principles.
The book argues that many recurring problems in universities are not caused by a lack of motivation, talent, or goodwill. They are produced by recurring patterns within structures and humans in historically grown organisations. Decisions take too long. Participation becomes symbolic. Innovation depends on individual champions. Flexible pathways become confusing. Recognition of prior learning remains unpredictable. Quality assurance documents process but does not always see learning. The same problems return across institutions, roles, and reform efforts because the architecture underneath has not changed.
Drawing on more than thirty years inside higher education, as student, lecturer, professor, programme designer, researcher, senator, equality officer, and reform participant across seven countries, Berkling combines lived institutional experience with a method borrowed from software architecture: design patterns.
At the heart of the book are blank-slate dialogues with experts who know higher education from different positions. Each was asked the same question: if money, politics, and IT constraints were solved issues, and you had the power to create a university from scratch, what would it look like?
The themes and principles derived from these conversations are translated into a pattern language for institutional design: recurring antipatterns that make universities fail predictably, and corresponding design patterns that show how they might be built differently.
The final part develops the Open University of Germany as a worked institutional prototype: a fictive but serious public university model designed for modular, stackable, lifelong learning. Its governance, curriculum, quality assurance, legal structure, finance, accreditation logic, and implementation documents are treated as one architecture based on design patterns and evaluated along a maturity signature of their design goals.
The book is written for university leaders, policymakers, accreditation experts, programme designers, academic staff, students, and institutional innovators who already sense that something in the system is not working as well as it could and need a language precise enough to name it.
A university does not become learner-centred because of a single statment or vision. It becomes learner-centred when its structures are designed to survive budgets, committees, leadership changes, legal constraints, and time.
This book proposed the design patterns and an implementation that any new university can give itself and any historical university can evaluate itself against, set goals and measure it's own maturity against those goals. Just like the class desing patterns in Software Engineering, this book is intended as a reference catalogue and the Open University of Germany as an implementable prototype.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Grand Eagle Retail
Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 6 to 14 business days | 6 to 16 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 0.00 |
Payment methods
Seller's business information
APOLLO ONLINE CORP.
605 Geddes Street
Wilmington, DE U.S.A. 19805
Terms of sale
We guarantee the condition of every book as it¿s described on the Abebooks web sites. If you¿ve changed
your mind about a book that you¿ve ordered, please use the Ask bookseller a question link to contact us
and we¿ll respond within 2 business days.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, Illinois, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. All books within the US ship free of charge. Delivery is 4-14 business days anywhere in the United States.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.