By John Raucci Jr., Inside Higher Ed
An article in these pages last week, “We Are Not Luddites,” by Brooks Kohler, argues that being skeptical of online learning does not make one a Luddite. Very well, then. I think most academics would agree. If his article had gone on to critique the tendency of tech folks to alienate skeptics of online learning by labeling them backward or hopelessly outdated, I would have been on board. But Kohler takes a curious turn when he writes that liberal arts instructors who welcome online learning are in a state of “technological hypnosis.” Students, according to Kohler, are in a “fixative trance.”
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