TY - JOUR
T1 - Online Teaching Communities within Sociology: A Counter Trend to the Marketization of Higher Education
AU - Palmer, Nathan
AU - Schueths, April M.
N1 - April M. Schueths Dr.. "Online teaching communities within sociology: A counter trend to the marketization of higher education" Teaching in Higher Education 18.7 (2013): 809-820.doi:10.1080/13562517.2013.836097
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As higher education embraces the ideologies of the market, educators are being asked to teach evermore students with fewer resources. Running counter to the trend of marketization, a decentralized group of educators are taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies (including Facebook, Twitter, and blogging platforms such as Wordpress, etc.) to collaborate online to share teaching resources, support one another, and improve pedagogy. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are online collections of pedagogical content/media that are freely distributed. In addition to resources, communities of educators are coming together to support one another and provide informal mentoring in what we call Online Teaching Community Networks (OTCNs). We review how OERs and OTCNs are forming within the discipline of sociology to illustrate the potential both have to improve pedagogy and support teachers.
AB - As higher education embraces the ideologies of the market, educators are being asked to teach evermore students with fewer resources. Running counter to the trend of marketization, a decentralized group of educators are taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies (including Facebook, Twitter, and blogging platforms such as Wordpress, etc.) to collaborate online to share teaching resources, support one another, and improve pedagogy. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are online collections of pedagogical content/media that are freely distributed. In addition to resources, communities of educators are coming together to support one another and provide informal mentoring in what we call Online Teaching Community Networks (OTCNs). We review how OERs and OTCNs are forming within the discipline of sociology to illustrate the potential both have to improve pedagogy and support teachers.
KW - Open Educational Resources (OERs)
KW - higher education
KW - sociology
KW - teaching
KW - teaching communities
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562517.2013.836097
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2013.836097
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2013.836097
M3 - Article
SN - 1356-2517
VL - 18
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
ER -