Surles predicted that if we did not get moving, our enrollment could drop two or three thousand students within a few years. She said we must follow our core values, but we must find ways to include the technology. Tremendous changes are going on around the country, and we have to live with it. She might bring in a consultant to review the whole technology area, and set a framework for distance learning, etc. We do not have Curriculum Designers on other campuses to do the work the faculty must do here.
Schools define distance learning in a myriad of ways, including correspondence courses.
For this to be a massive effort, we have got to have support. There are some things with network configuration that have been causing some difficulty. This wiring demonstrates the dynamic between the academic and the business side. There was never a clear idea of what these instructional support people were doing. Jorns' idea was that these people would interface with ITS so faculty need not do so.