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Foil 9 Business Model for Education

From The National/Next Generation Information Infrastructure in the service of Education Training and Computational Science RCI Federal SIG Meeting Williamsburg Marriot -- April 17 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Many US Universities export education.
2 Is global communication and "Virtual University Technology" good or bad?
  • There will be access to more students
  • You can teach them "in place". Maybe not so many will come and spend money in US
  • New organizations can compete as don't need so much capital investment to become a Virtual as a Real University!
  • One could get changes in teaching versus residential function of Universities
3 Many other Enterprises have similar Challenges and Opportunities!
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