Critics

These holdings represent some of the most passionate, scathing, and sometimes amusing attempts to criticize and resist the public and private campaigns to promote cyberschooling, online education or distance learning.

 

Business Week Online - CyberWasteland: A Talk with Clifford Stoll -- http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr1998/nf80421d.htm

Kraut, Robert, et. al. - Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well Being? -- http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp5391017.html

Mohammed, Emir A., So Your Interested in Post-Secondary Distance Ed., huh? -- http://www.angelfire.com/mo/EmirMohammed/Distance.txt

Oppenheimer, Todd - The Computer Delusion -- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla - What Are the Alternative Technologies? -- http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/T4PM/T4PM.html

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla - What are the Links? -- http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/T4PM/links.html

So Your Dog Has a Ph.D.: Diploma Mills and Accreditation Policy in Ontario - the Node networking -- http://thenode.org/networking/january1998/feature1.htm

New York Times -- Technology Critic Takes on Computers in Schools -- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/education/05education.html

High Tech Today - Highlights of Interview with Clifford Stoll -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/hightech/cliffsto.htm


Online Materials

Friesan, Norm -- Computers and the Self: A Dialectic of Enlightenment? -- http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/articles/disted/adornotech.cfm

Guernsey, Lisa - Is the Internet Becoming a Bonanza for Diploma Mills? - Chronicle of Higher Education -- http://www.chronicle.com/data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-17.dir/17a02201.htm

Gur-Ze'ev, IIan - Knowledge, Violence, and Education -- http://www.educacao.pro.br/knowledge.htm

Hara, Noriko, and Rob King - Student's Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course -- http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/wp00-01.html

Luke, Carmen -- ekstasis@cyberia -- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/Luke/CYBERDIS.html

Luke, T. W., The Political Economy of Cyberschool: Rethinking "Instructional Technology" and the Suitability of Cyberspace as an Educational Environment -- http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/online-ed/timluke.shtm

Katz, Richard N. - Competitive Strategies for Higher Education in the Information Age -- http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9959.html

Mann, Charles C ., Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?-- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm

Nelson, Erik - Education as the End to Crime -- http://future.newsday.com/4/fbak0423.htm

Noble, David, F. - Digital Diploma Mills - PART I - The Automation of Higher Education -- http://communication.ucsd.edu./dl/ddm1.html

Digital Diploma Mills - PART II - The Coming Battle Over Online Instruction -- http://communication.ucsd.edu./dl/ddm2.html

Digital Diploma Mills - PART III - The Bloom Is Off the Rose -- http://communication.ucsd.edu./dl/ddm3.html

Digital Diploma Mills - PART IV - Rehersal for the Revolution -- http://communication.ucsd.edu/dl/ddm4.html

Stoll, Clifford - Silicon Snake Oil -- http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/silicon_snake_oil.html --

Stoll, Clifford - in brief -- http://www.uwec.edu/Admin/DC/AP/Forum/stoll.htm

Winner, Langdon - Automatic Professor Machine -- http://www.rpi.edu/~winner/apm1.html

Young, Jeffrey R. - Author Warns Students - and Colleges - to Avoid On-line Education -- http://chronicle.com/free/99/11/99110302t.htm



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