Colleges pursue a competitive edge via the Internet.
If we don't get moving, then someone else will. The demand for distance-education courses on the Internet can be huge. Zastrocky notes that a consortium of community colleges in Phoenix offered 25 courses over the Internet for the first time this fall, and beginning enrollment totaled 2,500. The number of distance-education courses at the undergraduate level is increasing rapidly. There are currently almost 10,000 college-level courses offered on the Internet.