It also brings the knowledge of the world into the classroom.
Distance learning is an old concept that is being given new life via the Web.
Correspondence schools have long been a part of education. The merging of life-long learning and vocational retraining for the workforce will further push the technology and propel sales in the distance learning area. SGI has adopted the term learning on demand because it underscores the fact that this form of media management is not necessarily dependent on distance in order to be accessed. Asynchronous learning means that a student can go to the campus media lab and view the professor's lecture tapes at his or her convenience, even as someone across the country accesses the same taped lecture at the same time through the Web. The ability to meet the particular demands of the student is the key part of this concept, which is facilitated by the technology of the Web.