Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
	The Massive Open Online Course
	MOOC Structures
	MOOC Reactions: Disrupting and ‘Making Sense’
1 (Post)Humanism and Education
	Introduction
	Humanism
	Humanism and Education
	Critical Posthumanism
	New Materialism
	Rethinking Educational Dualisms
	Posthuman Knowledge and the (Non)Representational
	Conclusions
2 Masters of the Universal: MOOC Education and the Globe
	Introduction
	Humanism and Colonialism
	The Corporate World of the MOOC
	World-leaning MOOC Research
	The MOOC Platform
	Conclusions
3 Colonising Communities and Domesticating Data
	Introduction
	Immunising Communities and the Anthropological Machine
	Measuring MOOC Communities
	Identifying Participants and Categorising Participation
	Connectivism and Community
	Lurking and the Tyranny of Participation
	The Personal Learning Network
	Individualism in the Connectivist MOOC
	Conclusions
4 Housing the MOOC: Space and Place in ‘ModPo’
	Introduction
	Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
	Spatiality and Mobilities Theory
	The House of Possibility
	The Kelly Writers House Tour
	Other Voices, Other Rooms: Power and Potency in the ModPo Fora
	The Immutable Mobile of MOOC Pedagogy
	Conclusions
5 Monstrous Openings in the EDCMOOC
	Introduction
	The E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC
	The Monstrous
	Outside of Bounded Educational Space
	Calls for Cohesive Community
	Outside of the Humanist Subject
	Conclusions
Conclusion
	Summarising Posthumanism and the MOOC
	Suggestions for MOOC Practice, Pedagogy, and Research
	In Closing
Index