Mustafa Al Al itibaren Rumenka, Srbija
In first section of the book, Kamenetz examines the social-structural and economic issues in higher education which drive costs up and graduation down. This section works reasonably well and should give people pause. Kamenetz did a fair job of convincing me that current methods cannot merely be scaled up to educate substantially more students; new players and approaches will be necessary (possibly including new philosophies about the uses of education and credentials). The second section, in which Kamenetz tours the various technological means for delivering information, isn't as successful. It reads like a mere catalog of various options, not critically examining any of them. Everything is presented as "potentially revolutionary"; options aren't even compared to each other, let alone existing pedagogical strategies. It devolves into a gee-whiz tour, more in the style of the Travel and Leisure section of a newspaper than a work of investigation or analysis.