readings
The digital revolution in education is part of a larger transformation in modern societies as digital media reorganize virtually every social institution. The edf team is committed to placing our work in this larger context. The readings we have assembled here provide a few tools for doing that.
Educ 403x: education's digital future
Nov 27: Synthesize and Share 403x
2007. "Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning: A practice guide." Institute for Education Sciences, NCER 2007-2004.
Nov 13: Changing approaches to assessment in an online learning world
2012. "NAEP: Looking ahead – leading assessment into the future." Recommendations to the Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics.
Nov 6: The evolution of digital curricula
2011. "Planning the OER landscape." In: OCWC Global 2011: Celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. Cambridge, MA, USA.
Available here
2012. "A different approach to digitally enhanced education." California Council on Science and Technology, CCST Spotlight.
Available here
2012. "The Learning Registry Project." The Learning Registry as part of the Content in Context Metadata Lab.
Available here
Oct 30: What is a university?
1974. "Higher Education for Democracy: A Report of the President’s Commission on Higher Education." Establishing the Goals (New York, 1947), Vol.1.
1992. "'Exploiting a wonderful opportunity': The patronage of scientific research at Stanford University, 1937–1965." Minerva, 30, 391-421.
Available online - check academic search tools (e.g. Google Scholar)
2006. "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education. A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings." U.S. Department of Education.
2008. "Sieve, incubator, temple, hub: Empirical and theoretical advances in the sociology of higher education." Annual Review of Sociology, 34, 127-151.
Oct 23: The changing relationship between school and work
2010. "DIY U: Edupunks, edupreneurs, and the coming transformation of higher education." White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green. (selections TBD).
Available at the Stanford bookstore
2011. "The radically altered landscape of early adulthood." Research Priorities for Broad-Access Higher Education.
2011. "The ‘traditional’ college student: A Smaller and smaller minority and its implications for diversity and access institutions." Research Priorities for Broad-Access Higher Education.
2012. "Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century." Washington, DC: National Academy Press. (selections TBD).
Free PDF available here
Oct 9: Rockstar teachers
2012, June 18. "College Degrees, Designed by the Numbers." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Available here
2012, August 13. "Why Online Education Won't Replace College—Yet." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Available here
Oct 2: Living digitally
2008. "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion." New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 384 pages.
Book available free at http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ - thanks to Ritu Tandon for the tip!
2010. "The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I (Information Age Series)." Oxford: Blackwell. (Ch. 1: Information technology revolution; Ch. 5: The culture of real virtuality).
Available at the Stanford bookstore
2012. "Networked: The New Social Operating System." Cambridge: MIT Press.
Available at the Stanford bookstore
Sept 25: Course introduction; Purposes of education and schooling
1967/1929. "The Aims of Education and Other Essays." New York: Free Press, 13-26. (Ch. 1: The Aims of Education).
Available online - check academic search tools (e.g. Google Scholar)
1959. "The school class as a social system: some of its functions in American Society." Harvard Educational Review, 29, 297-318.
Available online - check academic search tools (e.g. Google Scholar)
1977. "The effects of education as an institution." American Journal of Sociology, 83(1), 55-77.
Available online - check academic search tools (e.g. Google Scholar)
1988. "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." American Journal of Sociology, S95-S120.
Available online - check academic search tools (e.g. Google Scholar)
Jan 15: changing boundaries between high school and college (10-14)
1977. "Admission to College and University." The Qualified Student: A History of Selective College Admission in America, 3-15.
1988. "Introduction: Politics, Markets, and the Middle Class." The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and The Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939, 1-8.
Jan 22: symbolic deference — the inherited system of credit and accreditation in US higher education
1971. "Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification." American Sociological Review, 36, 1002-1019.
1978. "The Structure of Educational Organizations." Marshall W. Meyer, editor, Environments and Organizations, 78-109.
Jan 29: design studio — alternative credentialing systems
Apr 2: Deciphering the digital divide: What is it, why does it matter?
2001. "Technology, equity, and K-12 learning." In R. Noll (Ed). Bridging the digital divide: California Public Affairs Forum, 39-51.
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