Here come the Indian professors (more of ‘em, anyway). Sorry, maybe I’m a Luddite, but I hate this. It looks like another steaming pile of Global Society about to be rammed down our throats.
I'd characterise it more as a tint of xenophobia rather than Luddism. You don't seem to be afraid of technology per se, as long as it stays "American" rather than Indian or otherwise "foreign."
Internet and "communications" in general are "global" so, in theory, yes, you could get online education from a college which is "foreign" i.e., not physically located in the U.S. How about Toronto, Ottawa or Oxford or Cambridge, for example, would they be excluded from the list of "foreign" colleges/professors to be feared/disliked?
How can having more choice be described as being "rammed down our throats"? Did the introduction in the late '50s of cheaper better-made Japanese "toy" cars from Toyota and Nissan/Datsun into the US market ultimately benefit the American consumers and eventually free them from having to buy the American/UAW-made "boxes on wheels" from the Big Three?
This is the technology that can potentially empower consumers (parents and students) to break free from the government-sanctioned and institutionalized power of the "Big Education Industry" and we should object to this development on the lone basis that the empowered education consumers might choose educators who are not "American," rather than trust the [Global Society] marketplace and competition?
Isn't the availability of more, better choices better for consumers? Don't we want the people to be free to "shop" around and choose their education and educators?
Competition always benefits consumer, regulation benefits the governments and the monopolies.