Book chapter
The Medium is the Message : On the Emergence of Autonomous Learning, MOOCs, and Technology-Enabled Active Learning
Autonomous Learning in the Workplace
Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
04/01/2017
DOI: 10.4324/9781315674131
Abstract
This chapter begins by exploring McLuhan's ideas in more depth before examining trends in education of which autonomous learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and other forms of technology-enabled active learning are contemporary manifestations. The transfer of Higher Education (HE) costs to those who consume them is euphemistically called cost-sharing. Societies are increasingly questioning who benefits most from HE and coming to the conclusion that it is the students who benefit most. As a result, students are being asked to pay a higher and higher proportion of the costs. Faculty are caught in the middle of an ever-tightening bind. Their students are customers and evermore demanding and critical. While the technological changes make so much more possible on a micro-level, they bring with them much greater competition. MOOCs allow students the opportunity to "try before they buy", to sample the teaching before committing to a university for a qualification.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Medium is the Message : On the Emergence of Autonomous Learning, MOOCs, and Technology-Enabled Active Learning
- Creators
- Jon Billsberry - Deakin UniversityKenneth G Brown - University of Iowa, Management and Entrepreneurship
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Autonomous Learning in the Workplace
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315674131
- Publisher
- Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984371301502771
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