They only see their professors in person for a few days every semester. John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, and perhaps the most respected executive in the world of technology, says that on university can afford not to be on the Internet. Even Harvard, Yale, Stanford. Robert Birdall, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, worries that schools jumping onto the Internet bandwagon may not like where it takes them. I think that is the core issue.
Education is like sex on the Internet.
And there is an interaction capability. There is some sort of marvelous energy that gets going between me and a student when I know that that student is really catching on. I can tell the difference between a shutdown response and an engaged response. And caring, I think, is a lot of it. Yeah, you do.