September 8, 2008
Future Courses: A Compendium of Thought about Education, Technology, and The Future
Jason Ohler, Editor
Where are we headed?
What does the future hold for us?
What is the right course to follow?
What will learning be like in the future?
Future Courses answers these questions and more. It is a guidebook for learners in the Digital Age. This is travel writing for the 21st Century by some of the past century's best thinkers, educators, researchers, writers, and artists.
This book is for seekers of knowledge, travelers on the educational and technological highway. Future Courses offers answers and some well-informed speculation on the future of education as it will be impacted by technological innovations.
Read what these contributors to Future Courses have to say:
- Stanford's Larry Cuban
- EDventure Holdings Chair Esther Dyson
- Harvard's Howard Gardner
- Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
- Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Intelligent Machines
- Neil Postman, author of The End of Education
- David Shenk, author of Data Smog
- MIT's Sherry Turkle
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Jason Ohler, Ph.D., is author of Taming the Beast: Choice & Control in the Electronic Jungle (TECHNOS Press 1999). He teaches technology assessment at the University of Alaska Southeast and is director of that school's Educational Technology program. A playwright and musician whose compositions have been performed live and on radio and TV, Ohler lives with his wife and two daughters in Juneau, Alaska.
Click here to access the editor's web page: http://www.jasonohler.com/
304 pages (2001) softbound
ISBN 0-7842-0888-3
$22.95US + $4.00 shipping per book (Product Number 449-BK)
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