Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Eduction

by David F. Noble

Book Overview

Is the Internet the springboard which will take universities into a new age, or a threat to their existence? Will dotcom degrees create new opportunities for those previously excluded, or lead them into a digital dead-end? From UCLA to Columbia, digital technologies have brought about rapid and sweeping changes in the life of the university--changes which will have momentous effects in the decade ahead.
In the first book-length analysis of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583670920
• ISBN13: 9781583670927
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

On the Nose

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.