Technology and the Politics of Instruction

This study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S. research university - the site of nationally known innovations in this area - ties together a range of issues usually separated in discussions of instructional technology and examines soften slighted topics, such as the articulations of local and national practices. It questions the common vocabulary for making sense of CMI and contributes to educational change theory by showing how CMI has unfolded both from the top-down and the bottom-up.

Jan Nespor

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Making CMI Visible Within the University. Making CMI Visible as Policy: Instructional Accounting. Seeing Instruction Through the Lens of Finance. Looking Good in Public. Part II: With Sandi Schneider, Seeing Teaching as Work. With Sandi Schneider, Making Disciplinary Objects Visible: Pathology on CD-ROM. With Sandi Schneider, Making Students' Difficulties Visible: The Math Emporium. Making Lectures Visible: Re-Designing in Nutrition. Part III: Making Coursework Visible in the Frame of the Test. Making the Course Visible in Everyday Life. CMI and Organizational Change. Appendix: Data Sources.