In this smart and incisive work, Karen J.
Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era.
And yet, as she argues, MOOCs are just the latest example of the near-religious faith that some universities have in the promise of technological advances.
As a teacher of rhetoric, Head is well versed at sniffing out the sophistry embedded in the tech jargon .
University Press Of New England Disrupt this!: moocs and the promises of technology, hardcover/karen j. head
