New and rapidly changing Academic Curriculum suggest the use of distance education as it will allow a few experts to deliver instruction to more students and this
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addresses shortage of trained faculty
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cost of developing new curriculum QUICKLY requires many students to amortize cost
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Assume future of all education and training is "web-based" (even if taught in conventional organization) and that base Web Technology supports self paced asynchronous learning
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Database (linked to web) allow management and assessment
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Synchronous(Interactive) and Project based learning enabled by Web Collaboration systems
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Both delivery mechanism and identification of knowledge nuggets (such as Internetics or computational science) that are smaller than a traditional degree suggests different approaches to certification
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Courses are given, graded etc. by multiple organizations -- University integrate degrees?
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