TY - JOUR
T1 - Globalization or Colonization in Online Education
T2 - Opportunity or Oppression?
AU - Reyes, Melanie
AU - Segal, Elizabeth A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/10/20
Y1 - 2019/10/20
N2 - A proliferation of student enrollment in online higher education, particularly in social work, may reflect a neoliberal shift from public good to private commodity. Critical theory is an excellent lens to assess whether there has been such a shift. While online higher education represents opportunities for information globalization, consciousness-raising, and social justice, it may also be an instrument of colonization related to profit generation, reliance on market transactions, and power related to discourse. Recommendations made here include targeted student recruitment and accessibility, geographically and culturally grounded knowledge integration, cultivation of market skills and student voice, and intentional outcome measures.
AB - A proliferation of student enrollment in online higher education, particularly in social work, may reflect a neoliberal shift from public good to private commodity. Critical theory is an excellent lens to assess whether there has been such a shift. While online higher education represents opportunities for information globalization, consciousness-raising, and social justice, it may also be an instrument of colonization related to profit generation, reliance on market transactions, and power related to discourse. Recommendations made here include targeted student recruitment and accessibility, geographically and culturally grounded knowledge integration, cultivation of market skills and student voice, and intentional outcome measures.
KW - Online education
KW - critical theory
KW - distance learning
KW - globalization
KW - higher education
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U2 - 10.1080/08841233.2019.1637991
DO - 10.1080/08841233.2019.1637991
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073224835
SN - 0884-1233
VL - 39
SP - 374
EP - 386
JO - Journal of Teaching in Social Work
JF - Journal of Teaching in Social Work
IS - 4-5
ER -