This paper addresses the ownership issue as an element in recruiting faculty. First, the paper reviews the issue itself and examines why it is important. Second, different perspectives on ownership are examined. In particular, the paper looks at two distinct philosophies on ownership. Last, the paper concludes by suggesting how universities can use this issue to their competitive advantage.
Technology now challenges that classic view of teaching.
Various distance learning technologies such as videotape, compressed video, and websites can break down the barriers of space and time. Such barriers are broken for those students, institutions, and instructors who want to break them down. Each party makes its own decision. Students of course gain more choices for getting instruction and a degree, and in some cases they gain the opportunity to obtain a degree that they could not otherwise get. Students must make choices about whether they want a traditional instruction setting with the inconveniences in time, schedule, and expenses they would have to endure versus instruction delivered via technology.