Brave New Classrooms
Subtitle
Democratic Education and the Internet
Edited by Mark Pegrum and Joe Lockard
The early, halcyon days of e-learning are gone. Many who embraced personal computers and the Internet, and who devoted their work to creating new forms of electronic education, have grown dissatisfied with trends toward commodification and corporatization, a paucity of critical thought, poor quality distance learning, and the growing exploitation of teaching labor. Online learning’s inherent democratic potential seems increasingly a chimera. "Brave New Classrooms" explores whether and to what extent its original promise can be recovered. It includes sixteen essays from educational practitioners, including some of the best-known theorists of Internet-based education.
Bio
Joe Lockard is an associate professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.