Cyber ‘earning’ the big enchilada: Point and click education in the age of irrationality | Dailycensored.com

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Cyber ‘earning’ the big enchilada: Point and click education in the age of irrationality

by Danny Weil

I posted what you will read below back in 2010 but now that Verizon is joining the multi-billion dollar educational fray (http://www.dailycensored.com/2012/07/26/look-at-whos-partnering-with-verizon-to-deliver-common-core-offal/) as well as the newly created Rupert Murdoch’s ‘educational’ division headed by Joel Klein, cyber learning from K-16 and beyond is the new venture plan and has been for some time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/28/news-corp-split-rupert-murdoch).

Interestingly, as an aside, the for-profit colleges that offer their educational products online are light years ahead of the public institutions and this is not surprising. While public institutions have to interact with people, for-profit colleges offer their products online and thus minimize the costs of labor and with it, the culture of dialogue and interaction that accompanies real education and campus life.  But they are being looked at as beacons for the