Knox Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course

Contaminating the Subject of Global Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-37795-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course critiques the problematic reliance on humanism that pervades online education and the MOOC, and explores theoretical frameworks that look beyond these limitations. While MOOCs (massive open online courses) have attracted significant academic and media attention, critical analyses of their development have been rare. Following an overview of MOOCs and their corporate means of promotion, this book unravels the tendencies in research and theory that continue to adopt normative views of user access, participation, and educational space in order to offer alternatives to the dominant understandings of community and authenticity in education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knox, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Introduction

The Massive Open Online Course

MOOC structures

MOOC Reactions: disrupting and ‘making sense’

Chapter 1: (Post)Humanism and Education

Introduction

Humanism

Humanism and education

Critical Posthumanism

New Materialism

Rethinking Educational Dualisms

Posthuman knowledge and the (non)representational

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Masters of the Universal: MOOC Education and the Globe

Introduction

Humanism and colonialism

The Corporate World of the MOOC

World-leaning MOOC research

The MOOC Platform

Conclusions

Chapter 3: Colonising Communities and Domesticating Data

Introduction

Immunizing communities and the anthropological machine

Measuring MOOC communities

Identifying participants and categorising participation

Connectivism and community

Lurking and the tyranny of participation

The Personal Learning Network

Individualism in the connectivist MOOC

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Housing the MOOC: Space and Place in ‘ModPo’

Introduction

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

Spatiality and Mobilities Theory

The House of Possibility

The Kelly Writers House Tour

Other voices, other rooms: power and potency in the ModPo fora

The immutable mobile of MOOC pedagogy

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Monstrous Openings in the EDCMOOC

Introduction

The E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC

The Monstrous

Outside of bounded educational space

Calls for cohesive community

Outside of the humanist subject

Conclusions

Conclusion

Summarising Posthumanism and the MOOC

Suggestions for MOOC practice, pedagogy and research

In closing

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Knox is Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he designed, developed, and taught the pioneering MOOC 'E-learning and Digital Cultures'.