This title of this conference is open and distance education. Campus universities may be able to do distance education - although they will do it in a very expensive fashion. But they cannot be open. They cannot be open because the prestige of campus universities is defined by the number of people they exclude. Quality, for traditional universities, equals exclusivity.
Quality is measured by inputs.
The ideal inputs are a large amount of government money and a small number of highly qualified students who have just left school. This philosophy is so deeply rooted in campus universities that there is no way they can open the way to inexpensive education for large numbers of people. For campus universities more people means worse and more economical means worse. Today's vital developments need a new approach, which the open universities are now providing. They have broken the link between quality and exclusivity.