Technology and the Politics of Instruction Book

Preface     ix
Introduction     1
Overview of the Book     5
Part I     9
Making CMI Visible Within the University     11
Professional Migration     12
Demonstrations     15
Assembling Interested Participants     16
Crossing Scales     18
Making CMI Visible as Policy: Instructional Accounting     21
Unpacking Credit for Contact     23
Contact and Credit for What?     24
Accounting for Instruction     26
Seeing Instruction Through the Lens of Finance     33
Finance Discourse     35
Hard Times and Rescaling     38
CMI as the Capitalization of Instruction     40
Administration by Surfacing     42
Public Appearances     45
Costing     50
Big Pedagogy     51
Centralizing Transformations     54
Part II     57
Seeing Teaching as Work, With Sandi Schneider     59
Content Atomization and Disaggregations of Teaching     60
Volunteer Overtime     62
Intensification and Articulation Work     65
Making Disciplinary Objects Visible: Pathology on CD-ROM, With SandiSchneider     69
Student Roles     70
Visual Learning     72
Indexical Instruction     74
Feeling and Identification     75
Performance, Feeling, and Participation     76
Curricular Specificity of Instructional Practices     77
Making Students' Difficulties Visible: The Math Emporium, With Sandi Schneider     79
What kind of innovation is the Emporium?     84
The CIL-Funded Effort     87
Error Visibility     89
Mediation and Money     91
Disciplinarity and CMI     91
Making Lectures Visible: Redesigning in Nutrition     94
ID Defined     95
Instructional Design as a Division of Labor     96
Instructional Design as a Pedagogical Infrastructure     98
The Goals of the Course     100
Making Objectives Explicit     101
Discarding Deadwood     102
Jurisdictions     103
Mapping Instruction     105
Part III     107
Making Coursework Visible in the Frame of the Test     109
Notes and Note Taking     110
Studying     114
Tests as Destinations     117
If the Material is Already Movable, Why Go To Class?     120
Making the Course Visible in Everyday Life     122
The Flexible Student     125
Temporal Organizations of Student Activity     127
The Institutional Career     127
Semesters, Weeks, Days     130
Anywhere, Anytime?     135
CMI and Oganizational Change     141
Data Sources     147
Did She Read the Slides or Deliver a Lecture?     152
Organizational Problems of Research     157
References     163
Index     183