Moocs for Sale: Informational Capitalism and the Edu-Factory

Author:   Tanner Mirrlees ,  Shahid Alvi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781612057934


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   27 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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By public accounts, for-profit massive open online courses (MOOCs) are fundamentally changing North American and global education, and for the better. The promises of the MOOC are many: they are said to enable a few excellent professors to teach more students than ever, relieve students of sitting through boring lectures by freeing up time for meaningful and interactive in-class dialogue, allow students to personalize their education with a mix of online and offline platforms, and give the world's poor access to free, high-quality education. This book offers a clear and systematic critique of the promotional hype surrounding for-profit MOOCs and, in its place, puts forward a grounded political-economic analysis of the material world that MOOCs exist within and the power relations that shape them. By doing so, it poses a rejoinder to the claims about the positive effects of for-profit MOOC companies and joins the current public debates surrounding the future of higher education and the role of information and communication technology in it.

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Author:   Tanner Mirrlees ,  Shahid Alvi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Paradigm
ISBN:  

9781612057934


ISBN 10:   1612057934
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   27 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Tanner Mirrlees is Assistant Professor of Communication at University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an award-winning teacher. Shahid Alvi is Professor of Criminology and Sociology in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is the author or co-author of five books and numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters, and is the 2002 recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Critical Criminologist of the Year Award.

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