The other fallacy is to imagine that resource rich devices such as video will work effectively. The development costs of these may be too great unless delivery is to large numbers. Secondly, there needs to be an awareness of the limitations of the internet particularly in terms of speed. Finally, there needs to be an acute awareness of the resources of the students. The internet costs money both in terms of connection service charges and on-line time.
Intranets also transcend the boundaries between in-house teaching and distance learning.
They provide access to new resources such as lecture notes, course information and administration, literature or references to literature and teaching techniques such as electronic conferencing which can be integrated with traditional teaching methods. Life-time learning In a rapidly changing world, the continual need to update one's knowledge and skills becomes a new imperative. This imperative has been increasingly acknowledged for law for example by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee. Current 'life-time' learning programmes for law are expensive in requiring travel and expensive accommodation, while taking considerable amount of time. Moreover, the need to truncate the learning in restricted space and time makes assessment difficult in 'short courses'.