A linkedIn e-mail sent me here-- http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/could-many-universities-follow-borders-bookstores-into-oblivion
After a cursory read I panicked. Could what is happening to journalism be happening to education? Could what once was deeply local --one teacher in a room with a group of students-- be dead in the water the way local newspapers are?
Are we, EDT6020 students, by pushing for online course work, sealing our doom? is the next step where one 'master' teacher develops a course and computers teach it thereafter forever?
I hope not, because students need, want and deserve feedback from another human every class, every project. if this were not the case they all would just buy books are learn everything by themselves. And Borders would still be in business.
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