- Published: 6 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780262551243
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $105.00
The War on Learning
Gaining Ground in the Digital University
- Published: 6 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780262551243
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $105.00
"Elizabeth Losh's The War on Learning is the rare book that avoids the Scylla and Charybdis of writing on technology and writing on education. We hear too much that technology will save us or damn us, that education is wonderful or terrible. For Losh, learning is a process, not a product—and so is technology, and so are the institutions of education. She derives as many lessons from the failures as the successes and, more importantly, is able to show us how we can all learn from the most experimental, creative, daring, and sometimes ill-fated attempts to do better, to strive higher, to be bolder. In short, Losh as theorist, critic, and practitioner exemplifies the best methods of learning. If there is a war on learning, I want to be on Losh's side. She's a winner."
--Cathy N. Davidson, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University; Cofounder, HASTAC (hastac.org); and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn