Professor Larson was especially enthusiastic about web-based tutors for students.
Lifelong education is now no longer a luxury, but a necessity.
The Internet provides the inexpensive distribution for that education any time, anywhere. Universities now must step up to the plate and offer educational services to their alumni. Dr. Larson predicted that colleges and universities will accelerate their importing and exporting of courses and educational content, thereby creating vast interinstitutional marketplaces of educational products and services. Following recent trends, students at any university may be taking courses not only from that university but also from others, using the Internet to 'cross-register' electronically. Were this to occur on a wide scale, a method of cross payments would evolve among cooperating institutions, making education similar to free trade between nations.