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Open Education: A Study in Disruption
Contributor(s): Van Mourik Broekman, Pauline (Author), Hall, Gary (Author), Byfield, Ted (Author)

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 ISBN: 1783482087     ISBN-13: 9781783482085
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
OUR PRICE: $122.85  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Non-formal Education
- Education | Higher
- Education | Inclusive Education
Dewey: 378.175
LCCN: 2014026386
Series: Disruptions
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.07" W x 8.73" L (0.58 lbs) 126 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning. But does open education really offer the openness, democracy and cost-effectiveness its supporters promise? Or will it lead to a two-tier system, where those who can't afford to attend a traditional university will have to make do with online, second-rate alternatives? Open Education engages critically with the creative disruption of the university through free online education. It puts into political context not just the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) but also TED Talks, Wikiversity along with self-organised 'pirate' libraries and 'free universities' associated with the anti-austerity protests and the global Occupy movement. Questioning many of the ideas open education projects take for granted, including Creative Commons, it proposes a radically different model for the university and education in the twenty-first century.

Contributor Bio(s): Van Mourik Broekman, Pauline: - Pauline van Mourik Broekman is co-founder, Mute, and Mute collective memberHides, Shaun: - Shaun Hides is Head of Department of Media and Co-director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University, UK. He authored the Department's Open Media strategy, led a JISC-funded OER project on open-connected teaching innovation and has spoken at numerous events on OER, Innovation and the impact of disruptive technologies on education. He is an advisor to the British Council.Worthington, Simon: - "Simon Worthington is a Research Associate at the Hybrid Publishing Consortium - Leuphana Inkubator, Leuphana University, Germany."Hall, Gary: - "Gary Hall is Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University, UK, and visiting professor at the Hybrid Publishing Lab - Leuphana Inkubator, Leuphana University, Germany. He is also co-founder (in 1999) of the open access journal Culture Machine, a pioneer of OA in the humanities, and co-founder (in 2006) of Open Humanities Press, which was the first open access publisher explicitly dedicated to critical and cultural theory. He is the author and editor of several books on digital culture and the idea of the university, the best known of which is Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minnesota University Press, 2008)"Byfield, Ted: - Ted Byfield is a New York-based independent researcher and writer. He served for over a decade on the design faculty of the New School University, and is a former visiting fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. He co-founded the Open Syllabus Project research network, and since 1998 has co-moderated the mailing list.
 
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