@article{kessler2016best,
  title = {Do The Best Parts Equal The Best Whole? A Critique of Online Teaching and Learning},
  author = {Steven Kessler and Andrew F. Wall},
  year = 2016,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JELHE/2016/827620/},
  journal = {Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education},
  volume = (2016),
  pages = 9,
  doi = 10.5171/2016.827620,
  abstract = {This paper details the role of online and distance learning in higher education today. This paper contends that higher education, in pursuit of academic capitalist ventures, is eroding the authority of the institution and pursuing a more consumer based educational outcome. We ask two questions, one regards the fallacy of composition, and the other addresses the traditional educational experience is changing for the worse by making it more abstract. This paper uses the work of people like Robert Nisbet and Slaughter and Rhoades to address the issues of community, authority, and the public good through distance education. Additionally, issues of a prisoner’s dilemma, Max Weber’s rationalization of traditional authority, and Russell Kirk are employed to a classically conservative narrative on higher education and suggestions for best practice.
 },
  keywords = {Distance learning, academic capitalism, authority and community, the public good.},
  note = Article ID: 827620
}