June 23, 2000

Authors Argue That 'Distance Education' Is an Oxymoron

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Distance education earns mostly low marks from John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid in their new book, The Social Life of Information. Mr. Brown, director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and Mr. Duguid, a resource specialist in social and cultural studies at the University of California at Berkeley, are interested in exploring the "social context" of information technology.

Eager proponents of information technology suffer from "tunnel vision," the authors say, adding that it

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