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The war on learning
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ISBN: 9780262027380 9780262323253 0262323257 1306731054 9781306731058 0262027380 9780262323260 0262323265 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in a war on learning itself. In this book, Elizabeth Losh examines current efforts to "reform" higher education by applying technological solutions to problems in teaching and learning. She finds that many of these initiatives fail because they treat education as a product rather than a process. Highly touted schemes -- video games for the classroom, for example, or the distribution of iPads -- let students down because they promote consumption rather than intellectual development. Losh analyzes recent trends in postsecondary education and the rhetoric around them, often drawing on first-person accounts. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs (massive open online courses), the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures (from Randy Pausch to "the Baked Professor"), and educational virtual worlds. Finally, Losh outlines six basic principles of digital learning and describes several successful university-based initiatives. Her book will be essential reading for campus decision makers -- and for anyone who cares about education and technology.

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COMPUTER NETWORKS -- 370.33 --- TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS -- 370.33 --- COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION -- 370.33 --- INTERNET IN EDUCATION -- 370.33 --- MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS) -- 370.33 --- GAMIFICATION OF LEARNING -- 370.33 --- VIDEO LECTURES -- 370.33 --- DIGITAL LEARNING -- 370.33 --- HIGHER EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY -- 370.33 --- Education, Higher --- Teacher-student relationships. --- Internet in education. --- University extension. --- Universities and colleges --- Educational technology. --- Computer-assisted instruction. --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Computer network resources. --- Computer networks. --- Computer-assisted instruction --- Educational technology --- Internet in education --- Teacher-student relationships --- University extension --- Extension education --- Distance education --- Education --- Summer schools --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Pupil-teacher relationships --- Student and teacher --- Student-teacher relationships --- Students and teachers --- Teacher and student --- Teacher-pupil relationships --- Teachers and students --- Interpersonal relations --- Internet (Computer network) in education --- Technological innovations --- Instructional technology --- Technology in education --- Technology --- Educational innovations --- Instructional systems --- Teaching --- CAI (Computer-assisted instruction) --- Computer-aided instruction --- Computer-assisted learning --- Computer based instruction --- Computer-enhanced learning --- Electronic data processing in programmed instruction --- ILSs (Integrated learning systems) --- Integrated learning systems --- Microcomputer-aided instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted learning --- Microcomputer-based instruction --- Programmed instruction --- Telematics --- Computer network resources --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Computer networks --- Aids and devices --- Data processing


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Virtualpolitik
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ISBN: 1282240471 9786612240478 0262254948 9780262123044 0262123045 9780262254946 9781282240476 6612240474 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.


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Hashtag
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ISBN: 9781501344275 1501344277 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Bloomsbury Academic,

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MOOCs and their afterlives
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ISBN: 022646959X 9780226469591 9780226469317 022646931X 9780226469454 022646945X Year: 2017 Publisher: Chicago London

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A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;" in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise," and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades." At the beginning of the 2010s, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, seemed poised to completely revolutionize higher education. But now, just a few years into the revolution, educators' enthusiasm seems to have cooled. As advocates and critics try to make sense of the rise and fall of these courses, both groups are united by one question: Where do we go from here? Elizabeth Losh has gathered experts from across disciplines-education, rhetoric, philosophy, literary studies, history, computer science, and journalism-to tease out lessons and chart a course into the future of open, online education. Instructors talk about what worked and what didn't. Students share their experiences as participants. And scholars consider the ethics of this education. The collection goes beyond MOOCs to cover variants such as hybrid or blended courses, SPOCs (Small Personalized Online Courses), and DOCCs (Distributed Open Collaborative Course). Together, these essays provide a unique, even-handed look at the MOOC movement and will serve as a thoughtful guide to those shaping the next steps for open education.


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Bodies of Information : Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
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ISBN: 1452958580 1517906113 9781452958583 Year: 2018 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.


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Understanding rhetoric : a graphic guide to writing
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ISBN: 9780312640965 031264096X Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's,

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This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know - the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and presentation - in a visual format that brings rhetorical concepts to life through examples ranging from Aristotle to YouTube.

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