Pedagogy and Profit? Efforts to Develop and Sell Digital Courseware Products for Higher Education

Autor/in	Regele, Matthew D.
Titel	Pedagogy and Profit? Efforts to Develop and Sell Digital Courseware Products for Higher Education
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 57 (2020) 3, S.1125-1158 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Regele, Matthew D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831219869234
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Learning Modules; Higher Education; Commercialization; Instructional Materials; Credentials; Curriculum Development; Outcomes of Education; Publishing Industry; Learning Strategies; Student Evaluation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Learning module; Lernmodul; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Studienbuch; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung
Abstract	The individual economic benefits of higher education are largely determined by what students learn in the process of obtaining their degrees. Increasingly, for-profit companies that develop and sell digital courseware products influence what college students learn. Employees' pedagogical expertise, content knowledge, and understanding of organizational goals are likely to affect product characteristics and outcomes associated with the use of those products. This study draws on 15 months of ethnographic data to examine one organization's efforts to develop and sell courseware for use in higher education. The data suggest organization members' interpretations of educational access and quality support product development and sales efforts consistent with profit aims, but that may promote credentialism, negatively affect learning, and exacerbate quality differences across institutions. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01