Developing and delivering courses on The Web is a complex task requiring heavy staff support for faculty, who are incapable of using the technology by themselves. Developing such a course is a major institutional commitment, requiring a large team of specialists. Administration of the specialists and teams, together with managing and budgeting the process, requires something on the level of a Center or Institute with a sizable administrative staff. The Classroom model .
Instructors are largely independent.
While The Web is somewhere in between these two extremes, it will probably end up being closer to the second extreme. Developing a dynamic, attractive Web Site for education and training will eventually require significant support. While borrowing is common, this ease of appropriation is likely to discourage the development of big-budget courses, thereby discouraging projects with large staffing levels. For details on appropriation, see the page on Administrative and Social Issues . When sound and video become practical, you will want to incorporate those also.