Pedagogy and Profit? Efforts to Develop and Sell Digital Courseware Products for Higher Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8221144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew D Regele (0000-0003-0304-7886, Xavier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1125-1158 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0002831219869234 |
| OpenAlex | W2968988272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 51 |
The individual economic benefits of higher education are largely determined by what students learn in the process of obtaining their degrees. Increasingly, for-profit companies that develop and sell digital courseware products influence what college students learn. Employees’ pedagogical expertise, content knowledge, and understanding of organizational goals are likely to affect product characteristics and outcomes associated with the use of those products. This study draws on 15 months of ethnographic data to examine one organization’s efforts to develop and sell courseware for use in higher education. The data suggest organization members’ interpretations of educational access and quality support product development and sales efforts consistent with profit aims, but that may promote credentialism, negatively affect learning, and exacerbate quality differences across institutions
Affect (linguistics · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Higher education · Political science · Product (mathematics · Profit (economics · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Management and Marketing Education · Marketing · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |