Unbundling the University Curriculum MOOCs, Online Program Management and the Knowledge Question

In a context in which explicit attention to the curriculum has been sidelined in universities’ strategy, this book makes an argument for why curriculum matters, both in understanding the effects of unbundled online learning and more broadly. It takes up two particular curriculum issues which are amp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Connor, Kate
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Rethinking Higher Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Understanding curriculum and online learning in higher education
  • Part A: Knowledge, curriculum and online learning: key concepts and debates
  • 2 Academic knowledge: questions and debates
  • 3 Learning and teaching in the modern university
  • Part B: New initiatives, new subjects: case studies of online curriculum making
  • 4 The institutions: SandstoneU and TechU
  • 5 Case 1: Behavioural Ecology
  • 6 Case 2: Classical Studies
  • 7 Case 3: Interdisciplinary Logic
  • 8 Cases 4 and 5: Business Studies
  • Part C: University knowledge today: challenges and constraints
  • 9 Disciplines and their significance
  • 10 From constructivism to clarity and control
  • 11 Curriculum and knowledge – what is being missed?