Bill Ferster: 2 books
Teaching Machines
Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate...
Sage on the Screen
Education, Media, and How We Learn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Since the days of Thomas Edison, technology has held the promise of lowering the cost of education. The fantasy of leveraging a fixed production cost to reach an unlimited number of consumers is an enticing economic proposition, one that has been repeatedly attempted with each new media format, from...