Red Rock Eater Digest - Critical Theory of Technology

The Factory or the City: Which Model for Online Education? [1]

Technology and Modernity

Much recent discussion of the Internet emphasizes its promise
of epoch making changes in our lives. In no domain are these
anticipated changes more radical than in education. We are told that
the substantive content of instruction can now be delivered better
by computers than by teachers. Are we on the verge of a fundamental
transformation of all our assumptions about education as we enter
a postindustrial information age, or are we instead witnessing
significant but more modest changes in education as we know it?
As a participant in the early development of online education,
I hope to be able to bring a touch of realism to the debate.