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MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning
Robert A. Rhoads
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Description for MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning
Hardback. This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education. Series: Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JNM; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs) and show their ongoing relevance to reforming higher education and higher learning. Rhoads offers a provocative analysis of a particular moment in history when cultural, political, and economic forces came together with evolving teaching and learning technologies to bring about the MOOC. He argues persuasively that the OCW and MOOC movements have had ... Read more
In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs) and show their ongoing relevance to reforming higher education and higher learning. Rhoads offers a provocative analysis of a particular moment in history when cultural, political, and economic forces came together with evolving teaching and learning technologies to bring about the MOOC. He argues persuasively that the OCW and MOOC movements have had ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417790
SKU
V9781421417790
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About Robert A. Rhoads
Robert A. Rhoads is a professor of higher education and organizational change at the University of California-Los Angeles and a faculty affiliate at UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies. He is the coauthor of China's Rising Research Universities: A New Era of Global Ambition.
Reviews for MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning
Professor Rhoads chronicles the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) from 2008 to 2014...Recommended [for] upper-division undergraduates through graduates, faculty and professional readers.
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