Just an elegant, if still a bit frustrating, process handled completely online. It makes perfect sense. If we can learn from anywhere, faculty members can teach from anywhere. We all meet in cyberspace, anyway, so we shouldn't be surprised to have an Economics instructor in Montana, an Art History instructor in Miami, and a Spanish language instructor in Mexico. That's the way it works in distance learning.
Distance learning by definition unbundles the campus-centric delivery model for the learner.
As you can see from Scenario Two, it has the power to do the same for the faculty. Even if we were enrolled in a campus-based program, we might choose to take some courses online or at a local community college. We would transfer the credit back to the degree-granting school, using it to accelerate our progress or lower our cost. By using the transfer process to our advantage, we have unbundled the course delivery process in yet another way. In the future, when we're ready to complete an educational program, we'll have an entirely new set of variables to consider.