Tools

1. Introduction
2. The Clock and the MOOC
3. Life on the clock
4. eLearning

Assignments

• [none]

Required Readings/Viewings

• [none]

Key concepts, people, etc

• Technological determinism
  The view that human inventions shape human behaviour, often without our awareness and in ways we cannot easily control or resist
• Lewis Mumford
  Groundbreaking analyst of technology's effect on human society and social behaviours
• The mechanical clock
  Mumford's suggestion of how mechanization came to change human life and beahviours
• MOOC
  A now quaint buzzword for open access online courses, especially those unconnected to getting institutional accreditation

References and Resources

References

• Mumford, Lewis (1933) Technics and Civilization. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Nielsen, Lisa (2011) "10 Reasons Students Say They Prefer Learning Online." Tech & Learning (retrieved August 2013)
• Woodcock, George (1944) "The Tyranny of the clock." War Commentary, March 1944.