The Coming Battle Over Online Instruction, by Dave Noble
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The full title of this piece is "DIGITAL DIPLOMA MILLS, PART II - The
Coming Battle Over Online Instruction" is the second of part of David
Noble's "

Although part of this is "digital backlash", an equal part of it is
political rhetoric aimed at appealing to technophobia - especially in the
context of massive restructuring of large state universities, as some
universities move "up" to the "research' realm and other move "down" to
the "teaching" realm.  The dichotomy is, of course, not necessary, but
lots of academics have been trained to think that way.

Educom Review, May/June 1998, contains the "discussion" piece "Technology
in Education: A summary of the controversial essau 'Digital Diploma Mills:
the Automation of Higher Education'", by David Noble, with critiques by
Ben Shneiderman, Richard Herman, Phil Agre and Peter J. Denning.
The May/June articles aren't online yet, but they will appear at :

http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/review/dateIndex.html


Steve

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