Other critics fear technology may replace professors. College instruction may become digital. And college students may compete with corporations for the learning centers on the university campus. CETI will have a negative bearing on the independence of learning, freedom of faculty and intellectual property rights. The quality of student education will be lost.
Some critics are more philosophical.
They fear that the claws of business will interfere with well-tried methods of learning. Susan Parman, professor of anthropology at CSUF, said in a newsletter to fellow faculty that the learning process should function as a arena that nurtures genuine inquiry and should have no directed outcome, such as profit. Parman also said that as a university, the greatest product is the integrity of the learning process which is rooted in structural support for genuine inquiry. But CETI representatives insist that the well-worn method of learning have met the needs of the industrial age and now institutions of learning must meet the needs of the information age. Doing so takes technology and money.