Failure to disrupt : why technology alone can't transform education
Justin Reich (Author)
"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"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2020
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020
1 online resource (xi, 312 pages)
9780674249684, 9780674249660, 0674249682, 0674249666
1196194730
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