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Moocs for Sale: Informational Capitalism and the Edu-Factory
Tanner Mirrlees
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.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 31, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781612057934 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 418 g (Weight (estimated)) |
| Language | English |
