He notes that many campuses will become service stations through which multiple learning modules are made available to students at a distance. Price will become a greater factor in student choice. A second possibility is that the telecommunications revolution will prove to have minimal impact on educational institutions. It is a fad and it will go away but the telecommunications revolution has already advanced to far too be reversed. In the third scenario, most institutions will remain, but will find themselves playing altered roles.
Most campuses now pay insufficient collegial attention to pedagogy.
The telecommunications revolution will spark renewed and revived attention to pedagogy and creative collaboration using innovative classrooms and laboratories will come about. Significant distance learning will occur, but the role will remain for the traditional residential institution. Assessment criteria will be considerably improved. The Internet provides an extension of the Library and laboratory, a vehicle for rapid dissemination and critique of findings, and a forum for endlessly varied discussion groups. For faculty who have been isolated by geography or campus politics, telecommunications will rejuvenate interaction with scholars elsewhere.