Wednesday, May 18, 2011

McTeaching: Online Instruction | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

McTeaching: Online Instruction | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

McTeaching: Online Instruction

McJobs has come to mean low-paying jobs with limited skill requirements where turnover is high, workers’ activities are programmed, and the work is supervised closely by managers.

McTeaching or online instruction is where tightly sequenced software with accompanying worksheets and quizzes especially in credit recovery courses become the meat-and-potatoes curriculum. Other online courses with live teachers lecturing in a studio have step-by-step rules of face-to-face engagement with distant learners are higher-level McJobs. Both forms of online instruction have lower prestige among teachers (many of whom