Shifting the center to the margin: online learning and systems of control
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2008
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM PoznaĆ
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This essay will argue that before we can fully understand the potential of the existent and emerging
communication and information technologies for online distance education, we need to consider
their impact on schooling, teaching and learning. The conversation on distance education must be
grounded in the historical, social, economic, and political interests related to developed and emerging
networked digital systems that guide the visions and definitions of education, if not reality. Not
to do this, will continue to repeat the past, the unfulfilled promises of education and media, and to
relive history. To accomplish this is no simple matter, for to unpack and understand reality, its history
and current practices, and to break from the common-sense discourse on schooling, is complex
and demanding. It might be best said that this essay will stake out the territory, the map to be covered,
and not provide answers to questions that need to be asked. Even though the perspective
offered is one informed through experiences and reflections with the educational system found in
the United States, there are similarities found in most western countries. In the end, this essay will
consider two paths for education relative to networked digital media and Internet based distance
education.
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Neodidagmata 29/30 2007-2008, s. 39-54
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978-83-232-1908-8