Disrupt This!: Moocs and the Promises of Technology - Couverture rigide

Head, Karen J.

 
9781512600506: Disrupt This!: Moocs and the Promises of Technology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1512600504 ISBN 13 : 9781512600506
Editeur : Dartmouth College Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Dartmouth College Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1512600504
ISBN 13 
9781512600506
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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