Download PDF by Jonathan A. Poritz,Jonathan Rees: Education Is Not an App: The future of university teaching

Whilst a lot has been written concerning the doorways that expertise can open for college students, much less has been stated approximately its influence on lecturers and professors. even supposing know-how absolutely brings with it large possibilities inside better schooling, there's additionally the terror that it'll have a adverse impact either on college and on educating standards.

Education isn't an App bargains a daring and provocative research of the industrial context during which academic expertise is being carried out, now not least the monetary difficulties at present dealing with better schooling associations around the globe. The booklet emphasizes the difficulty of keep watch over as being a key think about even if academic know-how is used for reliable reasons or undesirable reasons, arguing that know-how has nice strength if positioned in worrying arms. while it's a consultant to the latest advancements in schooling expertise, it's also a booklet for these college, know-how execs, and better schooling policy-makers who are looking to comprehend the industrial and pedagogical impression of expertise on professors and scholars. It advocates a course into the longer term according to college autonomy, shared governance, and focus at the university’s conventional function of marketing the typical good.

Offering the 1st serious, in-depth evaluate of the political economic climate of schooling expertise, this publication will function a useful consultant to involved school, in addition to to a person with an curiosity sooner or later of upper education.