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Faculty as Machine Monitors in Higher Education?University of North Carolina at Charlotte Predictions concerning postindustrial society include that of workers serving as machine monitors. That concept is explored in this article in respect to faculty in higher education serving as monitors of computers that are executing instructional programs. Questions concerning changes in faculty roles and the control of educational quality are addressed. Alfred Borks vision of asynchronous learning systems is elaborated, and that alternative is compared to the concept of machine monitoring. It is concluded that monitoring in higher education is not likely unless student demand for distance learning is great, but in that case, monitoring would be superior to proposals for automated asynchronous learning systems.
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 20, No. 2,
106-114 (2000) This article has been cited by other articles:
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