Steve Gabany, a professor of community health at Indiana State University, created a Web-based version of his Basics in Community Health course two years ago. Now, he has licensed the course to ISI to sell to other community colleges. Professor Gabany and ISI plan to split the revenues. I would expect to see an explosion of online instructional material. Today's Information Age technologies are forcing a reorganization of labor in information industries.
Structural changes are underway in higher education.
As schools experiment with online education, professors are often asked to develop and deliver online courses. Exceptions to existing personnel policies are often used to promote such experiments. However, these may not be the same professors that populate academia today. D.C. He coauthored the CEO Forum on Education and Technology's report on public school computer use.