1st Edition
Harmonizing Global Education From Genghis Khan to Facebook
Tables and Figures
Introduction and Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1: The New Silk Road
1.1) The Gold of Timbuktu
1.2) Open and mega-universities
1.3) Traditional and new media
1.4) The mobile learning tradition
Summary
CHAPTER 2: Wax and Wane
2.1) Fin de siècle
2.2) Knowledge is power
2.3) The Luddite Revolt
2.4) Media adoption
Summary
CHAPTER 3: Why is the Sky Blue?
3.1) Cubist analysis
3.2) Cubist synthesis
3.3) Cubism online
3.4) Online constructivism
Summary
CHAPTER 4: Building Global Practices
4.1) Lost foundations
4.2) The asynchronous years
4.3) A Web-based bubble
4.4) Practical evaluation guidelines
Summary
CHAPTER 5: The Power of Many
5.1) Double-edged swords
5.2) Pedigree of a plagiarized piece
5.3) The uncritical mass
5.4) A giant structure
Summary
CHAPTER 6: Harmony and Counterpoint
6.1) The man who mystified Moscow
6.2) Imperfect harmony
6.3) Global counterpoint
6.4) A fugue state
Summary
CHAPTER 7: The Prism of History
7.1) Down on the farm
7.2) "There it is!"
Notes
References
Index
Biography
Jon Baggaley is Professor of Educational Technology at the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada.
"Harmonizing Global Education provides a unique and significant contribution to distance education and educational technology. Unlike so many contemporary texts which either ignore past achievements or brush off history in a few paragraphs, the strength of the book is the author’s distinctive focus on not just contemporary issues, but contemporary issues grounded in history, culture, and the arts." —Educational Technology
