{"id":976,"date":"2013-02-22T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2013\/02\/22\/david-wiley-looking-at-moocs-through-nobles-1998-critique-of-online-learning-digital-diploma-mills\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T17:17:09","slug":"david-wiley-moocs-digital-diploma-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/david-wiley-moocs-digital-diploma-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"David Wiley on MOOCs and digital diploma mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Wiley looking at MOOCs through Noble&#8217;s 1998 critique of online learning, &#8220;Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>The whole xMOOC phenomenon reads like the history of the Internet played backwards<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/2704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOOCs and Digital Diploma Mills: Forgetting Our History<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">When David Noble first published his groundbreaking critique of online education in 1998, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education, I thought to myself \u201che couldn\u2019t be more wrong.\u201d As it turns out he might not have been wrong \u2013 maybe Noble was simply so miraculously prescient that I couldn\u2019t see what he saw. Fifteen \u2013 count them, fifteen \u2013 years later, Digital Diploma Mills reads as if it were researched and written about the cur&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/YocZhJmJSfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wiley looking at MOOCs through Noble&#8217;s 1998 critique of online learning, &#8220;Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education&#8221;. The whole xMOOC phenomenon reads like the history of the Internet played backwards MOOCs and Digital Diploma Mills: Forgetting Our History When David Noble first published his groundbreaking critique of online education in 1998, Digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-fK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}