The use of the institutional categories of today will correspondingly diminish. Collaborative Learning Computers provide interactive technology. Students can be led to collaborate, when before geographic and scheduling rigidities limited the quantity and depth of group work. By combining theoretical learning and practice experience, the collaborative model is very powerful and likely to become as dominant in the 21 st Century as the lecture model was dominant in 20 th . Collaborative Teaching Faculty can share their databases with their students.
Departmental faculty can help each other prepare for class by sharing databases.
Cross cultural and comparative teaching becomes much more feasible. It is ironic that the same that gave birth to the textbook will also lead to its demise. And, with inter-institutional bartering of time, students at many colleges will be able to hear, see, and speak with the expert who prepared that particular segment of the course. Few professors will subject their students to entire courses taught by new and untested methods. All of this adds up to the practice that most courses will combine segments that are taught virtually and segments that are taught live.