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Disrupt This!
MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
Karen J. Head
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MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
Karen J. Head
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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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Education GeneralIndex
Abelard, Peter, 16, 18–19, 105, 140
academic colonialism, 106, 145–47
access to online services, 84–86, 92
accreditation, 58–60, 134
acknowledgments, rhetorical use of, 17–18
adjunct (nontenured or contingent) faculty, 1, 54–55, 118–23, 135, 138
Advanced Placement (AP) exams, 7, 55, 96–97
Alda, Alan, 103–4, 118
Alexander the Great, 152
Allston Campus, Harvard University, 131
American College Testing (ACT), 91
American Council on Education (ACE), 41, 75
Angry Birds, 150
Aniston, Jennifer, 104
Anselm of Canterbury, 105
appearance and clothing of instructor, 83, 109–14, 137
Apple, 16
apprenticeship model at Georgia Tech, 128
Aristotle, 45, 152
Arizona State University, 127
arts, social sciences, and humanities, 69–70, 97
assessment and value determination, 90–102; accreditation, 58–60, 134; business theory applied to higher education, 60–62; certificates and certification, 40–41, 56, 58–60, 74–77, 97; consumer viewpoint of students, 77–79; fragmentation of learning and, 96–98; machine grading, 98–102; peer review, 47–48, 98; platform limitations and, 92–94; process skills, difficulties with assessing, 94–96; standardized testing, 90–94, 96–97
Association of American Universities (AAU), 101
Atatürk, Kemal, 84
AT&T, 80
Bady, Aaron, 31
Balch, Tucker, 2, 23
Beard, Mary, 112
Beckham, David, 104
Berkeley, University of California at, 46, 150
Bharucha, Jhamshed, 135
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 3, 8, 21–22, 24–25, 27, 39, 63–64, 96
Blackboard, 159
Bloom’s Taxonomy, 94
Bogost, Ian, 46–47
Bok, Derek, 144
Bonk, Curtis, 10
Bras, Rafael, 2, 25
Brittain Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program, Georgia Tech, 1, 120
Brooks, David, 32
Burnett, Rebecca, 3, 21, 22, 23, 39
Business Insider, 67
business theory applied to higher education, 52–68; alliances, ecosystems, and outside constituencies, 62–65; competition, valorization of, 65–68; disruptive innovation and, 29–32, 37–38; efficiency and quality issues, 58–60; factory met...