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Zusatztext “At last! A scholarly! research-based book that refuses to make vacuous claims about the benefits of computer-mediated instruction in university settings.... It is clearly hallmarked for becoming a classic! touchstone text within a range of fields concerned with instruction and new technologies.”—Michele KnobelMontclair State University“This is a wonderful book.... The case study of the growth of computer-mediated instruction at one university is quite comprehensive in describing the many political! practical! sociological! and educational factors that played a role.... The excerpts from administrators! faculty! and students are powerful. [Nespor’s] analysis is very thought provoking.”—Christian SchunnUniversity of Pittsburgh Informationen zum Autor Jan Nespor Klappentext This study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S. research university - the site of nationally known innovations in this area - ties together a range of issues usually separated in discussions of instructional technology and examines soften slighted topics, such as the articulations of local and national practices. It questions the common vocabulary for making sense of CMI and contributes to educational change theory by showing how CMI has unfolded both from the top-down and the bottom-up. Zusammenfassung Presents the study of computer-mediated instruction in a US research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area. This book traces the organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Making CMI Visible Within the University. Making CMI Visible as Policy: Instructional Accounting. Seeing Instruction Through the Lens of Finance. Looking Good in Public. Part II: With Sandi Schneider, Seeing Teaching as Work. With Sandi Schneider, Making Disciplinary Objects Visible: Pathology on CD-ROM. With Sandi Schneider, Making Students' Difficulties Visible: The Math Emporium. Making Lectures Visible: Re-Designing in Nutrition. Part III: Making Coursework Visible in the Frame of the Test. Making the Course Visible in Everyday Life. CMI and Organizational Change. Appendix: Data Sources. ...
