ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the idea of the digital university. It explores this using three lenses and addresses whether the term ‘digital’ can be used to identify any particular characteristic set of technologies or to a specify a particular university type. It also examines the claims that are made for the affordances of digital technologies and the implications these may have for education. The term ‘digital university’ suggests a binary distinction between universities supported by new information and communication technologies, based on computing, and previous universities founded on analogue technologies up to and including television and telecommunications. Digital university is therefore a term that needs some further development, and elaboration.
