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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Has eLearning Revolutionized Education? - Heather Kanuka, Embassy Report
Does eLearning have the ability to ease many of the pressures that educators are currently facing? As we entered into the 21st century, leaders in this field argued that eLearning could respond to accelerating global competition, increase the quality of learning experiences, remove situational barriers, and be more cost effective. And for those who remained skeptical of the eLearning advantage, pundits such as Larry Ellison (chair and CEO of Oracle Corporation), Peter Drucker (author of The Effective Executive and Management Challenges for the 21st Century) and Jaron Lanier (Virtual reality pioneer) each suggested a looming breach of monopoly for providers of education should administrators of these institutions not become more technologically innovative and consumer oriented. Peter Drucker, for example, claimed that the physical presence of universities would cease to exist within 10 years.
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