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Technology and the politics of university reform : the social shaping of online education / Edward C. Hamilton.
Van Pelt Library LB2395.7 .H218 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Edward C., author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Macmillan's digital education and learning series
- Digital education and learning
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Education, Higher.
- Internet in higher education.
- University extension.
- Distance education.
- Open learning.
- Educational change--Social aspects.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such changes, suggesting that the politics of reform in higher education is not a struggle against technology, but for it, and that the critique of online education could be re-imagined as a basis for innovation"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Do new technologies mean the end of the university as we know it? Or can they be shaped in a way that balances innovation and tradition? This volume explores these questions through a critical history of online education"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. Online education and the politics of technology
- 2. From constructivism to normative critique: technology, history, and politics
- 3. The age of automation: the technical code of online education to 1980
- 4. The age of ambivalence: early experiments in educational computer conferencing
- 5. The age of evangelism: from online education to the virtual university
- 6. The age of openness: from critical interventions to the encoding of online education
- 7. The ambivalence of openness: MOOCs and the critical practice of online education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137503503
- 1137503505
- OCLC:
- 922454882
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