The Textbook and the Lecture: Education in the Age of New Media

by Norm Friesen

Why do the basic technologies of education--the book and the lecture--endure in our digital age?

Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech future, but by examining a well-documented past--a history of instruction and media that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421424339
• ISBN13: 9781421424330
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"