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Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
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Author: David F. Noble
List Price: $16.00
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ISBN: 1583670920
Publisher: Monthly Review Press (March, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 739,196
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
A Well-written, but Expensive Polemic
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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