>It wasn't pleasant. It wasn't persuasive. And it seemed to indicate a very different
>attitude--an immoral attitude--toward education and the diffusion of knowledge
>compared to, say, what Charles Vest was able to get his faculty to agree to in their
>Open Courseware Initiative:
You're comparing apples and oranges. Vest isn't talking about making university
credentials free and open to the public, only some of its course materials. Noble, on
the other hand, is talking about the way that the workers who do the uni's
credentializing are displaced with the aid of technology. Noble's anti-tech rhetoric
can certainly be irritating and reductive. But Vest's sing-song PR-speak is equally
so.
Christian
