Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such changes, suggesting that the politics of reform in higher education is not a struggle against technology, but for it, and that the critique of online education could be re-imagined as a basis for innovation.

In The Storyteller: A Princess's Tale, a selfish princess is confronted by a mysterious storyteller, who, after he spends his days telling her beautiful tales, finally tells her the truth about herself and her fate that not even her father is willing to tell. A truth that will change her life forever. For as a storyteller tells her: Because you are selfish and unwise You will not gain the greatest prize. One who does not need your shining eyes Who does not seek your beauty as a prize Who does not need your flaxen hair One who loves you, just because you are there. How will the princess react...