EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780367359898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Tanner Mirrlees; Shahid Alvi

Opis

This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech’s development and diffusion.

Spis treści

1. For a Political Economy of EdTech 2. Higher Education in a "Digital Age": Capitalism, Neoliberalism and the University, Inc. 3. Profiting on Higher Education: Platform Capitalism Is the Classroom 4. Automating Higher Education: Taylorism and the Teaching Machines 5. Globalizing Higher Education: Platform Imperialism 6. Conclusion: A Pedagogy for Technological Citizenship, a Pedagogy for the Precariat Working Class