Technology in Education: The Fight for the Future

Summarizes an article arguing that higher education's high-tech transformation is being implemented from the top down by university administrators and their commercial partners without student and faculty involvement and without compelling evidence of pedagogical value or economic advantage. Pr...

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Published inEducom review Vol. 33; no. 3; p. 22
Main Authors Noble, David, Shneiderman, Ben, Herman, Richard, Agre, Phil, Denning, Peter J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1998
Subjects
Business
College Administration
College Faculty
College Students
Computer Assisted Instruction
Educational Change
Educational Technology
Futures (of Society)
Higher Education
Technological Advancement
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Summary:Summarizes an article arguing that higher education's high-tech transformation is being implemented from the top down by university administrators and their commercial partners without student and faculty involvement and without compelling evidence of pedagogical value or economic advantage. Provides four rebuttals supporting the use of information technology in higher education. (PEN)
Bibliography:Provides a summary of "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education" by David Noble. For full text, see (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3 1/noble/index.html).
ISSN:1045-9146