Standards and cross-crediting provisions are already agenda items in all universities and will require considerable discussion and discipline. Instructional design specialists will be in keen demand. Partnerships will emerge amongst universities and with commercial suppliers. In short, change in educational delivery is a certainty for the future. The authors would be first to acknowledge that positioning a particular delivery technology on the graph is at best subjective.
Location depends largely on how a technology is used.
Further descriptive details are available in the Oliver and Grant publication. The current decade has seen the beginning of a re-organisation and rejuvenation of distance education in Australia, driven substantially by advances in telecommunication technology. Notwithstanding, distance education in Australia is still largely achieved by one-way transmission systems. There can be little doubt that the convergence opportunities described in this paper will stimulate universities to re-think their educational priorities. Increasingly, universities will be pressured to give budget precedence to electronic delivery systems.