A Concern
Although there is a great deal of activity in IT-mediated distance learning (over 1,000 ìvirtual universitiesî), as one goes up the learning curve, from community colleges to regional universities to research activities, there is less and less participation.
While there are experiments by research universities such as Unext.com, these are largely hands off, with little participation by the research university faculty. As a result, most research universities are not really learning how to implement this technology like others in the post-secondary education enterprise.