Distance-Education Critic's Book Takes Aim at Army's Efforts

The U.S. military's growing involvement in distance education could lead to greater standardization that would threaten academic freedom, argues David F. Noble, a history professor at York University, in Toronto, and a well-known technology critic.

Mr. Noble's latest critiques of distance education, along with revised versions of earlier salvos that first circulated online, are collected in a new book, Digital Diploma Mills (Monthly Review Press).

Much of the new material in Mr.

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