Cotton presented a half day session on using the Internet. Poley and Cotton listened to grassroots ideas related to the type of national educational programming that ADEC might develop cooperatively with the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute on The 1996 Telecommunications Act. Things were humming in Nashville June 5 - 7. ADEC President Janet Poley participated on the kick-off panel. She suggested that institutions must interconnect, follow the money and become much smarter about the market for programs, products and services to compete into the next century.
Duplication is out - cooperation is in.
It includes ADEC as an example of distance education becoming a reality. Touchstone is a trademark of Simon and Schuster. This book is particularly pertinent to all the conversations focused on Virtual and On-Line Universities and the needs and plans of the business sector in this area. On one hand the authors say that students from abroad are flooding into American graduate schools. They say we should be working hard to globalize and export our higher education.