Other details vary. They may connect through a modem over t heir home or office phone line or they may use high-speed high bandwidth digital phone lines. The newer high density video discs promise to open even more doors to affordable distance ce education. Although all good distance programs share the necessity of these organized instructional processes, there is tremendous variation in how they are actually carried out. Differences in educational philosophy Much of the difference between programs is related to educational philosophy.
Some institutions state their philosophy more clearly and unabashedly than others.
Even in organizations where it is less clearly defined or openly discussed, educational philosophy reveals itself through the final form of new programs and avenues of resistance along the way. The guiding philosophy dictates not only in the technologies employed, but who controls the process. In more traditional classroom oriented programs, the faculty and administration have most of the say and administrative details tend to center around the needs of the institution first, faculty second, and students last. More traditional programs tend to center on the needs and the convenience of the learner. Curricular and administrative details are often established through a process of negotiation that includes certain parameters but gives the learner a lot of clout in matters unrelated to the institution's survival.