Failure to disrupt : Why technology alone can't transform education By Justin Reich

By:

Reich, Justin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020Edition: 1st EdDescription: i-xi+312pISBN:

9780674089044

Subject(s):

Educational technology. Educational change. Computer-assisted instruction -- Evaluation

DDC classification:

371.33 REI-F

Contents:

Introduction: A tinker's guide to learning at scale -- Part I. Three genres of learning at scale: MOOCs and instructor-guided learning -- Algorithm-guided learning: adaptive tutors and computer-assisted instruction -- Peer-guided learning: networked learning communities, aggregators, and syndication -- Testing the genres: learning games -- Part II. Dilemmas in learning at scale: The curse of the familiar -- The edtech Matthew effect -- The trap of routine assessment -- The toxic power of data -- Conclusion: The next robot tutor in the sky.

Summary: "From MOOCs to autograders to computerized tutors, technologies designed for large-scale learning have never lived up to the hype. Justin Reich once promoted these "transformative" novelties; now he reveals their failures. Successful education reform, he concludes, will focus on incremental institutional change, not the next killer app"--

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	371.33 REI-F (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB3882

Introduction: A tinker's guide to learning at scale --
Part I. Three genres of learning at scale: MOOCs and instructor-guided learning --
Algorithm-guided learning: adaptive tutors and computer-assisted instruction --
Peer-guided learning: networked learning communities, aggregators, and syndication --
Testing the genres: learning games --
Part II. Dilemmas in learning at scale: The curse of the familiar --
The edtech Matthew effect --
The trap of routine assessment --
The toxic power of data --
Conclusion: The next robot tutor in the sky.

"From MOOCs to autograders to computerized tutors, technologies designed for large-scale learning have never lived up to the hype. Justin Reich once promoted these "transformative" novelties; now he reveals their failures. Successful education reform, he concludes, will focus on incremental institutional change, not the next killer app"--

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