The Learning Technologist Becomes A Luddite

The Learning Technologist Becomes A Luddite
Lanny Arvan, Lanny on Learning Technology, January 18, 2013

Lanny Arvan has never learned to write concisely (I've written to him about this - he says it's his style) so you'll have to wade through mounds of verbiage to get to the essential point. Which is this: "you're a Luddite if you are ok in using the technology but think it largely should be a complement to face-to-face instruction, not a substitute for it." He's responding to a post by Nathan Harden in American interest touting the end of the university as we know it. More...