Faculty Academy 2010

The Googlization of Higher Education

Written on April 19, 2010 by mburtis | Posted in Program Item

The official mission of Google is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally
accessible.” That is also the goal of colleges throughout the world. As institutions
increasingly surrender information organization and technology functions to Google, is the
academy itself surrendering its function and goals to a private corporation?

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