Overcoming Institutional Resistance

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1.      “It is estimated that in the next ten years college enrollments in California will increase by 700,000 students with half that number seeking college admission in the next five years. There is, quite simply, no way the CCs, CSUs, and UCs can accommodate them. This phenomena is ominously referred to as "Tidal Wave II." (Gravenhurst, 1999).

2.      The United States Navy is now delivering training online (Personal interview, Instructor Juan Ruiz, U.S. Navy, August 2002.)

3.      Capper and Potashnik of the World Bank citing Daniel in 1996 says, “The 3,500 U.S. colleges and universities collectively serve 14 million students at an average cost of $12,500 each. By contrast, the 11 mega-universities serve 2.8 million distance education students at an average annual cost of only $350 each (Capper and Potashnik, 1998).

4.      Institutions will have to deal effectively with Faculty’s feelings of threats to their professional identity as classroom based instructors (Jaffee, 1998).

5.      “The evidence from the literature overwhelmingly supports the tenet that DL is as effective as traditional instruction in achieving a wide range of instructional objectives.” (Stapp, 2001, p. 14)

6.      Stapp cites “The evidence comes from such studies as the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) review of over 300 studies (Metzko et al, 1996), Kulik and Kuliks’ meta-analysis of 254 computer-based instruction (CBI) studies (Kulik, 1994), and Russell’s “No Significant Difference as reported in 218 studies (Russell, 1999), among many others. (2001, p 14.)