Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching (Paperback)

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University education is in crisis. Increasingly its funding is reduced and its relevancy questioned. The use of the Internet in university education and the delivery of online courses is seen as a cure-all, allowing tailored courses to be delivered to a wide student base with unprecedented immediacy and with a minimum of cost to the institution.

Tara Brabazon questions these assumptions. She shows that the delivery of quality online education requires as much input and thought as conventional course delivery, and, although offered at minimal cost to the institution, it is the teachers who pay, in their own time and effort to maintain standards. She also shows that there is more to teaching and learning than can be delivered online. She argues that knowledge is not the only thing a university should teach; rather, students should leave university with a love of acquiring knowledge and the ability to do so.

This wide-ranging book examines the state of higher education in Australia and exposes the myths and assumptions on which current education policy is based.

About the Author

Tara Brabazon is a senior lecturer in the School of Media, Communication, and Culture at Murdoch University in Perth, and was the winner of the Australian Award for University Teaching: Humanities, teacher of the year, 1998. She is the author of Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 086840781X
• ISBN-13: 978-0868407814
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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