Guardian Unlimited: Universities should resist
Guardian Unlimited: Universities should resist e-imperialismUniversities are imperial, perhaps even imperialistic, institutions - in the nicest possible sense. I am not thinking about nostalgia for empire or the domination of "western" science, but about the instinct of universities to try to do everything... Effective e-learning depends on the protection of intellectual property - or, to be more direct, a recognition that knowledge is a commodity to be bought and sold. But universities find it hard to accept that knowledge is a commodity. The best research and the best teaching depend on knowledge being "free". E-learning extends to teaching the awkward dilemmas universities have already encountered in the commercialisation of research.
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