Without question, the Internet is tearing down the old barriers of time and place. It enrolls 6,000 students at two residential campuses in Daytona, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona. The students stayed away from the classroom. Korea National Open University offers distance learning for degree and certificate programs to 300,000 students at 45 sites throughout South Korea. It uses a digital library to deliver course content and students use the Internet for admissions, registration and enrollment.
All transactions are secure and kept private.
Monterry Tech in Mexico has 70,000 students using the Net to access 2,500 course offerings. The Sloan School of Management at MIT won't accept an enrollment application today unless it's submitted over the Web. They used to print and mail 30,000 of them each year. I know about these because IBM has partnered with them. We're helping them link people to each other universities, to each other and to students-and link everyone to information.