The University Of Google: Education In The (post) Information Age

摘要

Tara Brabazon, a Professor of Media Studies at Brighton University, is a very angry lady. She is angry about the dumbing down of universities, and in particular, the reliance by both students and management on the use of technological tools such as Google for students undertaking their studies. This wide-ranging book covers both some particular features of this love of technology (such as use of PowerPoint and podcasts as well as Google) and the pressure that academic managers put on academic staff to employ these tools. She is particularly scathing of the trend towards e learning, arguing fiercely that the last thing that occurs with such programmes is genuine learning, and that learning can only occur in the rich environment of a combination of lectures, readings and tutorials.