The expansion and diversification of postsecondary education in the United States has led to greater options for students and prospective students for pursuing a college degree. With the roll out and scale up of sophisticated education technology systems, an important trend in higher education today is distance education. Despite the growing…

Although the Web is being used to support instruction, it is used to support a traditional model of university instruction, sacrificing much of its potential. Presents a generic six-point model of Web-based university instruction: specify goals to pursue; accept diversity of outcomes; request production of knowledge; evaluate at the task level;…