I appreciate the MOOC instructors’ caution about sliding into technological determinism. It happens all the time! Far more ominous are the realities of new technologies being used to foster the commodification of education and devaluing of educators, as described by David Noble. Without saying that the technology or capitalism inevitably cause this to happen, we witness the continual pressures and incentives to run education like an industry.
I am a professor of sociology and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusiveness at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. I started this blog to share ideas and links with students and colleagues: sociological reflections on the world and times we live in. As Johnny Clegg sings it “it’s a cruel, crazy, beautiful world….It’s your world so live in it! There is beauty to appreciate and beauty to create.
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