Disrupt This!

MOOCs and the Promises of Technology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

In this smart and incisive work, Karen J. Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era. And yet, as she argues, MOOCs are just the latest example of the near-religious faith that some universities have in the promise of technological advances. As a teacher of rhetoric, Head is well versed at sniffing out the sophistry embedded in the tech jargon increasingly rife in the academy. Disrupt This! is a broader-based critique of the promises of technological “disruption” and the impact of Silicon Valley thinking on an unsuspecting, ill-prepared, and often gullible university community grasping for relevance, while remaining in thrall to the technologists.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Dartmouth College Press
ISBN:9781512600506

Utforska kategorier

Material och digital teknik i undervisningen inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Karen J. Head is director of the Communication Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.

Recensioner i media

By showing how a professor in a top-ranked, well-funded university equipped with state-of-the-start technology was exposed to personal and institutional struggles, Head’s book asks as to the appeal for those with less financial and infrastructural privileges. Are MOOCs democratising or marginalising education? . . . Disrupt This! is a book that everyone interested in the subtleties of Higher Education and in the cost of technological changes should read.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsPrologue: How Did a Nice Girl Like You Wind Up Here?The Rhetoric of PunditryMy Educational Journey: A Brief InterludeSweet DisruptionTalking Business in Higher EducationWelders, Not PhilosophersOnly the Countable CountsThe Superstar ProfessorThe Harvard MystiqueMissionary CreepEpilogue: Balancing My ParenthesesNotesBibliographyIndex