Posthumanism and the massive open online course : contaminating the subject of global education / Jeremy Knox.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Knox, Jeremy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• MOOCs (Web-based instruction).
• Education, Humanistic.
• Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).
• Education--Effect of technological innovations on.
• Humanities.

Physical Description:

xiv, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

• 1 (Post)Humanism and Education 25
• Introduction 25
• Humanism 27
• Humanism and Education 29
• Critical Posthumanism 33
• New Materialism 37
• Rethinking Educational Dualisms 40
• Posthuman Knowledge and the (Non)Representational 43
• Conclusions 45
• 2 Masters of the Universal: MOOC Education and the Globe 51
• Introduction 51
• Humanism and Colonialism 55
• The Corporate World of the MOOC 57
• World-learning MOOC Research 68
• The MOOC Platform 74
• Conclusions 80
• 3 Colonising Communities and Domesticating Data 88
• Introduction 88
• Immunising Communities and the Anthropological Machine 91
• Measuring MOOC Communities 93
• Identifying Participants and Categorising Participation 96
• Connectivism and Community 105
• Lurking and the Tyranny of Participation 107
• The Personal Learning Network 111
• Individualism in the Connectivist MOOC 117
• Conclusions 118
• 4 Housing the MOOC: Space and Place in 'ModPo' 128
• Introduction 128
• Modern and Contemporary American Poetry 131
• Spatiality and Mobilities Theory 132
• The House of Possibility 135
• The Kelly Writers House Tour 140
• Other Voices, Other Rooms: Power and Potency in the ModPo Fora 147
• The Immutable Mobile of MOOC Pedagogy 153
• Conclusions 160
• 5 Monstrous Openings in the EDCMOOC 167
• Introduction 167
• The E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC 169
• The Monstrous 173
• Outside of Bounded Educational Space 175
• Calls for Cohesive Community 185
• Outside of the Humanist Subject 192
• Conclusions 200
• Conclusion 207
• Sunmiarising Posthumanism and the MOOC 209
• Suggestions for MOOC Practice, Pedagogy, and Research 214
• In Closing 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781138940826
• 1138940828
• 9781138940833
• 1138940836

OCLC:

929862723