@article{929567,
      recid = {929567},
      author = {Friesen, Norm,},
      title = {The textbook & the lecture : education in the age of  new media /},
      pages = {1 online resource (191 pages) :},
      abstract = {"In this era of technological and cultural disruption in  higher education, Norman Friesen turns the question around:  Why is higher education apparently so little changed in our  era of digital media? Is their obstinate persistence  evidence of resilience or of obsolescence? Answers to these  questions generally come down on the side of obsolescence,  with schools depicted as industrial-age antiques, about to  go the way of the steam engine. Using media and the changes  produced through them as its central reference point, this  book reverses this view. It explains why educational  institutions, their forms, and practices have lasted so  long, and why they show no sign of going away. This book  argues that questions like the ones above can best be  answered not by imagining an uncertain future, but by  examining a well-documented past--one that ultimately  extends from Gilgamesh to Google. The book undertakes this  examination by focusing on educational media, but not just  on new media or mass media. Instead, it sees textual and  spoken (or oral) media forms as central to education--as  providing the foundation for all other educational media.  The book considers the significance and interaction of  these basic media in two commonplace instructional forms or  genres, the lecture and the textbook. The lecture and the  textbook both integrate textual, oral, and, more recently,  digital media, and they have also been around for hundreds  of years. MOOCs and digital textbooks, argues Friesen, are  not a radical break from the past but an evolutionary  extension of it"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/929567},
}