title: Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
author: Karen J. Head
description: "By showing how a professor in a top-ranked, well-funded university equipped with state-of-the-start technology was exposed to personal and institutional struggles, Head's book asks as to the appeal for those with less financial and infrastructural privileges. Are MOOCs democratising or marginalising education? . . . Disrupt This! is a book that everyone interested in the subtleties of Higher Education and in the cost of technological changes should read."-- "London School of Economics Review of Books"<br /><br />"Head delivers a highly readable, deeply thoughtful, and pedagogically serious look at the use and abuse of technology in academia. Even as she unmasks the ludicrous rhetoric and limited platforms of MOOCs, Head remains determined to push pedagogues to the center of technological development in higher education. The disrupters, left unchecked, will wreak havoc, not through any of their promised radical changes, but by redirecting resources to ineffective tools and shiny toys, and away from the liberatory processes of teaching and learning."-- "Radical Teacher"
zlib_text: A Future We'd Like To See 1.27 - The Universe, Version 2.0 By Twoflower
  (Copyright 1993) "'Class notes, Mr. Q'woruarargnst, Reality Engineering 101.
  Subjects : Informsorbs OO'ooaf and OI'sswwt. Project : Final Exam, reality
  engineering...'" "We already know the grade, put that evaluation back," OO'
  whispered, tossing a pocket DNA mixer at his classmate. OI' ducked, and
  continued reading. "We need these notes, bud. How else are we going to figure
  out where they put FWLS?" OI' rasped, careful not to disturb anyone else in
  the Reality Engineering department. "Here we go. It says, 'OO' and OI' rewind
  the project, conduct appropriate after-project procedures, and the project is
  moved to public display as an example of what not to do. It is placed in time-
  replay, so that the pattern is repeated from front to back many times for
  other informsorbs to examine.'" "Public display?" OO' blinked. "I haven't seen
  it anywhere. Does it go into detail?" "Nope. Just 'public display'. Humph. He
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