Disrupt This!

MOOCs and the Promises of Technology

Karen J. Head (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2017
Dartmouth College Press (Verlag)
978-1-5126-0050-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Prologue: How Did a Nice Girl Like You Wind Up Here?
The Rhetoric of Punditry
My Educational Journey: A Brief Interlude
Sweet Disruption
Talking Business in Higher Education
Welders, Not Philosophers
Only the Countable Counts
The Superstar Professor
The Harvard Mystique
Missionary Creep
Epilogue: Balancing My Parentheses
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-5126-0050-4 / 1512600504
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5126-0050-6 / 9781512600506
• Zustand: Neuware