Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education

By Travis Reindl. 2002

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STUDENT DISTRESS IN A WEB-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE (2000, background): “Among academic practitioners, there has also been considerable concern about whether universities or their faculty own the instructional materials they develop for these courses (Noble 1998).”
Students’ Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course: An Ethnographic Study of Participants' Experiences (2003, background): “Amongst academic practitioners, there has also been considerable concern about whether universities or their faculty own the instructional materials that they develop for these courses (Noble, 1998).”
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Distance Education Learning Environments in Higher Education: The Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) (2005, background): “…education chances falling prey to “the commoditization of the educational function of the university, transforming courses into courseware, the activity of instruction itself into commercially viable proprietary products that can be owned and bought and sold in the market” (Noble, 1998, ¶ 6).”
The Effects of a Web-Based Learning Environment on Student Motivation in a High School Earth Science Course (2006, background): “Although there continues to be enthusiasm in many quarters about the integration of the WWW into education in general (Armstrong & Chen, 2002; Pittinsky, 2003), others have become disenchanted (Cuban, 2001; Noble, 2001; Oppenheimer, 2003).”
How Instructor Immediacy Behaviors Affect Student Satisfaction and Learning in Web-Based Courses (2001, background): “If they do this, rather than running depersonalized, commercialized classes (Dyrud, 2000; Noble, 1998), Web-based courses”
What campus-based students think about the quality and benefits of e-learning (2005, result): “However, the prevalent positive feedback of students to the use of ICT in the learning process reported in this study conflicts with some other research in the literature, particularly that of David Noble (Noble, 2002).”
Becoming a Virtual Professor: Pedagogical Roles and Asynchronous Learning Networks (2002, background): “Many are alarmed by the rush to automate higher education and to produce digital diploma mills [18].”
Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies (2002, methodology): “They raised the slogan, 'the classroom versus the boardroom' (Noble, 1998).”
Key Factors for Determining Student Satisfaction in Online Courses (2004, background): “Others argue online courses are being forced upon students and professors by administrators of colleges and universities because of cost-saving measures and students are not particularly happy about the online course initiatives at some universities (Jaffee, 1998; Noble, 1998).”
Authentic activities and online learning (2002, background): “There has been much criticism of the tendency of some institutions to simply dump large tracts of text in modules or sections onto websites (Harasim, 1997; Noble, 1998), leaving students to study in lonely isolation.”
Design research: A socially responsible approach to instructional technology research in higher education (2005, background): “Given a dismal research record, it is hardly surprising that some in academe are questioning the high investments in technology made on most campuses (Cuban, 2001; Noble, 2001).”