Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Friday, March 15, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031501u.htm

Philosopher's Critique of Online Learning Cites Existentialists (Mostly Dead)
MICHAEL ARNONE

...Mr. Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, specializes in phenomenology, the study of how people experience the world. In On the Internet, (Routledge, 2001) he argues that the Internet's promise of extending and improving human interaction through the digital medium isn't everything it's cracked up to be. He specifically criticizes distance education -- which offers the possibility of learning without the physical presence of a building, instructor, or other students -- as an overhyped, misunderstood trend that could backfire and result in worse education, not better....

 



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