Failure to disrupt : why technology alone can't transform education /
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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.