Are you an online evangelical?
What is your vision for online education? I've recently finished reading Edward Hamilton's Technology and the politics of university reform , and his position that there is nothing deterministic about online education, and how universities might apply it forces this question. At the heart of Hamilton's critique is, broadly, who should determine the application of online technologies to higher education: administrators, or faculties. I'll clumsily try to summarise how Hamilton contrasts the two: "Think": Brian Siewiorek, Flickr Administrators: Seeking efficiency and competitiveness (the evangelical discourse): Inevitability of change toward efficiency and access CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction) and automation The virtual university xMOOCs (illustra tive of paradigm) Faculties: Maintaining freedom and tradition Harnessing technologies to extend traditional academic role Experimentation based on faculty-driven innovation Blended learnin