Moocs, High Technology, and Higher Learning - Couverture rigide

Rhoads, Robert A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421417790 ISBN 13 : 9781421417790

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The first book to explore the rise of MOOCs through a social science lens.

In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs) and show their ongoing relevance to reforming higher education and higher learning.

Rhoads offers a provocative analysis of a particular moment in history when cultural, political, and economic forces came together with evolving teaching and learning technologies to bring about the MOOC. He argues persuasively that the OCW and MOOC movements have had a significant impact on the digitalization of knowledge and that they have helped expand the ways students and teachers interact and develop ideas collaboratively. He also critically analyzes the extensive media coverage of MOOCs while examining empirical studies of MOOC content delivery, the organizational system supporting the OCW/MOOC movement, and faculty labor concerns.

Too often, technology advocates champion the MOOC movement as a solution to higher education's challenges without recognizing the pedagogical, social, and economic costs. MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning challenges many of the democratic claims made by MOOC advocates, pointing to vast inequities in the ways MOOCs are presented as an alternative to brick-and-mortar access for low-income populations. This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert A. Rhoads is UCLA Professor and Division Head of Higher Education and Organizational Change and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He also is a Visiting University Chair Professor at Renmin University. His books include Global Citizenship and the University: Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World and Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421417790
• ISBN 13: 9781421417790
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
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• Personne responsable: non disponible