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The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education

Publication date
2022
Authored by
Richard Frederick Heller Emeritus Professor Richard Heller has a medical degree and doctorate from the University of London, United Kingdom. He was Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and Director of The Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and consultant general physician at the John Hunter Hospital until the year 2000. From there, he was Professor of Public Health in the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, until his retirement in 2006. Richard has had a leadership role in the International Clinical Epidemiology Network, an organisation originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, for capacity building in medical schools across the developing world, and developed a distance learning masters course in the University of Newcastle. He subsequently built a fully online masters course in Public Health at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Richard was also the founder and coordinator of the People's Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni), which aimed to provide Public Health capacity building in developing countries at low cost, through e-learning using open access resources on the Internet, and leading to an MPH degree.
Link to book
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6506-6#authorsandaffiliationsbook
Book Review

There are several new books exploring the possible, probable, and preferred futures of colleges and universities. This one is free and available for download. It explores some key themes – the drift from purpose, the challenge for an educational institution of responding quickly to a volatile, uncertain, changing, ambiguous world, sustainable development and technological development. Like many other similar books, Heller begins with the idea that the university is broken and needs fixing and that the starting point for doing so is putting the trust in faculty and their collaborative abilities. While there are some novel ideas, the Higher Education International Baccalaureate as a global online learning program being one, many of the ideas in the book have been around for the last five or six years. He has done solid work in bringing these ideas together into a coherent proposal.

 

APA Citation

Heller, R.F. (2021). The distributed university for sustainable higher education. Singapore: Springer.

Target Audiences
Academic Administrators and Policy-Makers
Topics
Education Reform
Publication date
2022
Authored by
Richard Frederick Heller Emeritus Professor Richard Heller has a medical degree and doctorate from the University of London, United Kingdom. He was Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and Director of The Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and consultant general physician at the John Hunter Hospital until the year 2000. From there, he was Professor of Public Health in the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, until his retirement in 2006. Richard has had a leadership role in the International Clinical Epidemiology Network, an organisation originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, for capacity building in medical schools across the developing world, and developed a distance learning masters course in the University of Newcastle. He subsequently built a fully online masters course in Public Health at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Richard was also the founder and coordinator of the People's Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni), which aimed to provide Public Health capacity building in developing countries at low cost, through e-learning using open access resources on the Internet, and leading to an MPH degree.
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