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"Free Trade" in Higher Education: The Meta University

by Sloan-C

Author Information

Author(s):

William H. Graves, Chief Information Officer (interim), Information Technology Services

Institution(s) or Organization(s) Where Research Occured:

University of North Carolina

Volume and Issue Information

Volume:

1

Issue:

1

Month:

March

Year:

1997

The Internet can be a tool for increasing access to education while also maintaining or improving the quality of students'learning. But if information technology is "onto" existing programs,instructional costs increase. Instead, higher education must learn to use technology to disaggregate and disintermediate some of its current instructional programs and to recombine the resulting components intomore flexible services that can compete in an educational "free market".

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