Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 19, Issue 1/2, 2009

Web-Based Technology and the New University

The Second Waive—Why Is US Higher Education Changing?

The beginning of the current decade witnessed the collapse of many ambitious and costly initiatives in distance learning, but that does not mean that this was just a short-lived fad, and that the march of change was halted. There appeared on stage forces and processes that work more slowly than decisions of university administrators, but that are also much more difficult to ignore or reverse. This article describes these change factors and the how they influence American higher education.