- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Between the Lines (Jan 14 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896357547
- ISBN-13: 978-1896357546
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #372,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An important book for anyone concerned about the future of education. David Noble exposes what lies behind the current push for distance education and passionately defends a non-commercial vision of universities that serve the public interest."
-James L. Turk, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers
-James L. Turk, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers
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Many students in North America today study and take courses through computer delivered or "distance" education. Universities, colleges, and governments seem to believe that these kinds of education are problem free. They claim they offer a great solution to tighter budgets and larger numbers of students. But beware, says David Noble, "Are these new opportunities for students or new opportunities for investors to profit?"
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A warning to Professors,
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This review is from: Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (Paperback)
This is the first of David Noble's books that I have read, but it will not be the last. He very effectively makes the case against the downgrading of education through on-line depersonalized courses and institutions. The parallel he establishes with the failed and equally profit before pedagogy driven correspondance school movement is an elegant work of scholarship. This should be read by everyone concerned about the future of post-secondary institutions in Canada. Professors who meakly watch the on-line movement and think it merely bothersome and not toxic to education, should read this book carefully. Well done!
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Well-written, but Expensive Polemic,
By Art Blaser (Orange, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Eduction (Hardcover)
David Noble effectively makes the case against online education. He points out that the rush to "clicks" means not only the replacement of "bricks" but also the replacement of people (or, more accurately, replacing many people who think with fewer people who count, but don't think.Noble is a first-rate essayist-his "In Defense of Luddism" (in Progress without People) is wonderful. One problem is that Noble will have persuaded many readers after five pages, but won't have persuaded others after reading five volumes. A second is that readers could skim the basics of Noble's argument for free online (currently at [URL) and send a donation to the Monthly Review Press (a worthy cause). The book contains some added prose, but doesn't add much to Noble's argument.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Well-written, but Expensive Polemic,
By Art Blaser - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Eduction (Hardcover)
David Noble effectively makes the case against online education. He points out that the rush to "clicks" means not only the replacement of "bricks" but also the replacement of people (or, more accurately, replacing many people who think with fewer people who count, but don't think.Noble is a first-rate essayist-his "In Defense of Luddism" (in Progress without People) is wonderful. One problem is that Noble will have persuaded many readers after five pages, but won't have persuaded others after reading five volumes. A second is that readers could skim the basics of Noble's argument for free online (currently at [URL) and send a donation to the Monthly Review Press (a worthy cause). The book contains some added prose, but doesn't add much to Noble's argument. 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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On the Nose,
By Souper - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Eduction (Hardcover)
I am neither a Marxist nor of the P.C. Left, but I taught dozens of on-line courses for various schools at all collegiate levels and to all kinds of students. Noble's assessment hits the bullseye. He wrote this book back in the early 2000s, and in the ensuing four years when I taught on-line, I saw his observations and predictions amply confirmed. It's why I don't teach on-line anymore. Sadly during this time, the abuses that Noble warned about became the norm, and pre-processed 'McEducation' came to be what on-line college students expected.
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