Abstract
It is common knowledge that higher education today maintains a close relationship with what is now being referred to as hyperconnectivity. The Internet is no longer just another resource as it was in the beginning but has instead become a core component of this education. This does not simply involve virtual universities but also physical campuses. Apart from a few exceptional cases, it may arguably be affirmed that students and teaching staff are permanently connected to instant messaging, virtual campuses, and their broad array of possibilities.
In what follows, we shall first be addressing some of the highs provided by university hyperconnectivity; we shall then deal with the lows, the threats looming on the horizon for higher education when this hyperconnectivity sacrifices its purpose, and we shall do so precisely by recouping some of its aims and missions. Finally, reference is made to certain proposals that are worth considering in order to realize these purposes. We should like to mention from the start that they do not have a great deal to do with hyperconnectivity but instead refer to tried and tested ways of forging the university identity of our students as future professionals and citizens.
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We are referring mainly to collections such as Great Ideas, a series of one hundred books that changed the world, published in English by Penguin Books at the beginning of the twenty-first century and in Spanish by Taurus.
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Bara, F.E. (2021). The Highs and Lows of a Hyperconnected University Identity. In: Muñoz-RodrÃguez, J.M. (eds) Identity in a Hyperconnected Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_15
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