The war on learning gaining ground in the digital university

• Main Author: Losh, Elizabeth M Elizabeth Mathews (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass The MIT Press 2014
• Subjects: Education, Higher > Effect of technological innovations on; Education, Higher > Computer network resources; Teacher-student relationships; Internet in education > Computer network resources; University extension > Computer networks; Universities and colleges > Computer networks; Educational technology; Computer-assisted instruction
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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 the...

Table of Contents:

• What they learn in college
• The war on learning
• On camera: the baked professor makes his debut
• From reality tv to the research university
• The rhetoric of the open courseware movement
• Honor coding: plagiarism software and educational opportunism
• Toy problems: education as product
• The plays the thing: games and virtual worlds in higher education
• Gaining ground in the digital university.