Chap 1: "Issues and Trends to Take Us into Twenty-First Century" by George P Connick

• Where is distance ed headed, and how will we get there?
• Triumph of the Nerds
• changes: industrial to information; 52% of college students ages 18-21. Most colleges built in another era for another era. Now anywhere anytime..
• Students have more choices with on-line courses.
• Educational institutions, like publishers, became to smug in their power. Then the web changed that.
• Western Governors University that was created in such a short time, illustrates power of web-based education.
• The digital age
• Don Tapscott's Growing Up Digital

  Web will allow:

  Access

  Quality

  Efficiency

  Productivity

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