Sylvan looked hard at seven or eight schools before falling head over heels for tiny Walden University a school with 30 years of distance-education experience. There are those who worry that there will be a compromise in the quality of the student experience based on the kinds of student delivery systems selected, for example. But I think that they will come to realize that doesn't have to be, and we can avoid having those kinds of compromises. We have also been trying to take a very ecumenical approach to distance learning. We don't want to hammer it all into one mold.
Some Web designers push the medium.
Others scorn the flashy stuff. We asked five leading designers where they stand in this budding religious war. Like it or not, the USA has a major lead over the UK in e-learning. To an extent this can be attributed to a greater willingness to invest and innovate and a history of leadership in technology, but that's not the whole story. For many years now, America has taken the subject of instructional design more seriously than the Brits, and the universities turn out a ready supply of new designers, all looking to make their mark in learning technology.