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What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

But does open education really offer the openness, democracy and cost-effectiveness its supporters promise? Or will it lead to a two-tier system, where those who can’t afford to attend a traditional university will have to make do with online, second-rate alternatives?

Open Education engages critically with the creative disruption of the university through free online education. It puts into political context not just the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) but also TED Talks, Wikiversity along with self-organised ‘pirate’ libraries and ‘free universities’ associated with the anti-austerity protests and the global Occupy movement. Questioning many of the ideas open education projects take for granted, including Creative Commons, it proposes a radically different model for the university and education in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Preface/ 1 The University in the 21st Century/ 2 A Radically Different Model of Education and the University/ 3 The Educational Context/ 4 Open Education/ 5 Open Education Typologies/ 6 Towards a Philosophy of Open Education/ Conclusion: Diverse ‘disruption’/ Bibliography/Index

Product details

Published 16 Oct 2014
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 126
ISBN 9781783482085
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 227 x 150 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Pauline van Mourik Broekman

Pauline van Mourik Broekman is the Co-founder of M…

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Gary Hall

Gary Hall is Director of the Centre for Disruptive…

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Ted Byfield

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Shaun Hides

Shaun Hides is Head of Department of Media and…

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Simon Worthington

Simon Worthington is a Research Associate at the H…

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