presented by:
	Dr. Janet K. Poley President, ADEC Distance Education Consortium

1. Technology Blur

2. ...Customer Focus

3. Global Trends
   • Citizens locate anywhere
   • Countries bid down tax rates to attract earners and profitable companies
   • Strengthening of communities of culture-language
   • English as second global language
   • Three shift world
   • Blurring of home and workplace
   • More long-distance learning
   • Rural left out

4. Public Higher Education will
   • Meet lifelong learning needs as mainstream aspect of mission
   • Incorporate new technologies in sophisticated ways into organization and delivery systems
   • Hire, reward, and support creative faculty
   • Develop quality niches
   • Get a grip on costs of disorganized systems

5. Extension Purposes
   • Serve citizens of the state
   • Provide diverse lifelong educational opportunities
   • Learning anywhere, conveniently
   • Improve teaching and learning processes
   • Increase quality, variety, productivity

6. World Wide Web
   • 320 million web pages today
   • 58% male - more new users female
   • 43% - college degrees (pop: 31%)
   • Average salary is twice U.S. average

7. Web Sites
   • NCSU Food Retrieval System
   • Cyber Camp
   • Deal Lab

8. Speed...Bandwidth...
   • Internet II
   • Abilene
   • Virtual Reality

9. Specific Projects
   • National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA)
   • San Diego Supercomputing Center

10. WWW and Community
    • "These technologies are more about creating and managing relationships than creating and managing information."

      "The Web would be entirely different if it were based on a more dynamic metaphor than publishing. We’d be talking about designing to support conversation and collaboration not posting."

11. Where the Hype Ends - Success Begins
    • Communities of Interest
    • Knowledge Marketplace
    • Virtual Organizations
      • Agricultural Telecommunications Program
      • New Digital Infrastructure
    • Electronic Commerce

12. What Works - Using Technology to Support:
    • Communities
    • Just in time learning
    • Rapid communication
    • Mentoring
    • Collaborative work
    • Digital libraries

13. What’s Not Working - Access Issues:
    • Where have all the "girls" gone?
    • Rural
    • Low Income

14. Profiles of "The Least Connected" (from 1997 Census)

15. Importing and Exporting Programs
    • The World is Waiting for our Programs
      • How to find a niche
      • Getting to homes, learning centers and workplaces

16. "Winners and Losers"
    • First Mover Advantage
    • Competition
      • Nationwide
      • Private sector

17. New Strategies - Blurred Lines
    • Programs
    • Courses
    • Modules
    • "Just in Time Learning"

18. Developing A Knowledge Marketplace
    • Reciprocity
    • Diversity of Products
    • Sustained Offerings
    • Quality
    • Price
    • Convenience

19. Special Challenges
    • Intellectual Property
    • Interinstitutional Agreements
    • Electronic Commerce and Business
    • Faculty and Learner Support
    • Organizational Change & Capacity Building
    • Cost of Technological Infrastructure

20. Already Here
    • ADEC Distance Education Consortium
    • Governors Open University System (GOUS)
    • Internet Virtual University
    • University of Phoenix

21. Already Here
    • Jones Education Company
    • California Virtual University
    • Penn State World Campus
    • University of Texas

22. Already Here
    • Classroom of the Future
    • UNL Deal Lab

23. Technology Blur with a Customer Focus

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