This meeting was designed to stimulate ongoing discussion. Attendees included the Department of Workforce Development, the UW System, UW-Madison, and legislative staff. Mr. Berg asked if the UW had developed any policy or position on distance education. Mr. Davis said that he did not know, but that he would follow up and report to the board. Mr. Boland thought that it was a good idea to make specific recommendations on this issue and on how the state ought to respond.
Distance education is, at the moment, an open game with few rules.
There is a need to define a level playing field for the state as a whole. Mr. Berg thought that it was important to be able to vouch for the quality of the programming coming in to the state. He said that this was a legitimate interest for Wisconsin. Mr. Conner stated that he liked the notion of having staff find out what is going on outside of Wisconsin. He said that it still needed data on number of visits plugged in and some additional discussion of staff's experience in the field.