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Sunday, November 04, 2001
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/Vol4_issue2/passmore.htm Impediments To Adoption Of Web-Based Course Delivery Among University Faculty David L. Passmore, The Pennsylvania State University I. INTRODUCTION A wag once noted that the pace of innovation in the technology of instruction is measured best by the sad fact that it took 40 years to get overhead projectors out of bowling alleys and into classrooms. And, some might assert that educators still are more likely to use overhead projectors while bowling than during instruction. Adoption of innovation in instructional technology does not merely lag. It often drags. However, recent technological and competitive pressures to innovate through distance education are changing the markets for producers and consumers of education. Remarkable, even revolutionary, change in the design, development, and delivery of instruction seems certain. Perhaps no sector of education is likely to experience this change sooner than higher education....
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