We should worry about the unhappily slow roll-out and high cost of high speed digital connectivity. To produce really compelling learning applications, we will most often require megabit access. At the current roll-out rate of our phone companies digital subscriber line technology and the cable companies symmetrical broadband services, we will be severely limited in what we can design in the way of new learning environments for quite some time to come. In many institutions the change to an Internet based system has been instituted with little or no consideration for the impact on student learning. Learning, Community Learning has many ends.
Teaching has one end - to enable learning.
Be it resolved that ADEC will promote multi-institutional collaboration and develop a climate to better define interconnected educational and business practices and procedures .draw upon our collective resources more efficiently through collaborative efforts. The more evolved people get, the more psychologically healthy they get. More enlightened management policy is necessary in order to survive in competition, and the more handicapped an enterprise with an authoritarian policy will be.