Moocs for Sale: Informational Capitalism and the Edu-Factory

by Tanner Mirrlees

By public accounts, for-profit massive open online courses (MOOCs) are fundamentally changing North American and global education, and for the better. The promises of the MOOC are many: they are said to enable a few excellent professors to teach more students than ever, relieve students of sitting through boring lectures by freeing up time for meaningful and interactive in-class dialogue, allow students to personalize their education with a mix of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612057934
• ISBN13: 9781612057934
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages