Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology

Karen J. Head

Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2017
Pages
208
ISBN
9781512600506

Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology

Karen J. Head

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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