Team A: A group of reform-minded educators who think that the Internet makes
obsolete the notion of students coming to class to sit in lectures. They
advocate a multimedia approach, using the Internet to deliver text, audio, and
video materials to both traditional (on-campus) and nontraditional students
(off-campus, mature, employed full-time).
Team B: A group of tenured professors who feel that there is no substitute for
learning with face-to-face contact between instructor and student. They point
out the limited success of videoconference learning, and worry about the
distractions and diversions of the new technological toys.
Last updated Jan. 02, 2003.