"This book presents the adoption and use of the activity theory during the evolution of technology in higher education …Introduction: from common sense to a complex theory -- An overview of activity theory in technology-mediated higher … education -- The activity system of higher education students using technology -- Contradictions and technology in higher …

economics, explains why, despite his earlier skepticism, he now believes technology has the potential to help rein in costs … subject. Surveying the dizzying array of new technology-based teaching and learning initiatives, including the highly … publicized emergence of "massive open online courses" (MOOCs), Bowen argues that such technologies could transform traditional …

science, technology and innovation infrastructure. In the last ten years, public and private investments in S%T%I grew in …