E. Hamilton

Technology and the Politics of University Reform

The Social Shaping of Online Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Digital Education and Learning
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50350-3
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781137503503
• ISBN-10: 1137503505
• Artikelnr.: 43853789

Autorenporträt

Edward C. Hamilton is Chair of the School of Communication at Capilano University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

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