The excerpt appears with permission of the author. He said the train was leaving the station and Teachers College needed to get on board. We agreed and we disagreed. We both thought the train was indeed leaving the station. The only real difference in our thinking was that I believed the higher education community was driving the train.
Higher education brings to distance learning three critical characteristics.
The first is reputation or in business terms a brand name in the field of education. The third element is content. Today content is king. Digital technology gives television, telephones, and cable stations the capacity to distribute more and more content. Today there are more channels available to distribute content than there is content to fill them.