The prediction, in brief:

The innovations in academic work space are elevated to a contest for institutional survival as these technologies have weakened the “natural monopoly” of educational institutions once afforded by physical presence. The birthing of this new work space will have its most pragmatic manifestations and fiercest battles in defining what is an accepted education, the purview of accreditation. Accreditation, a process that itself has relied on a sense of place for its enforcement, is ill-prepared for this contest.

Predictor: Acker, Stephen R.

Prediction, in context:

In a 1995 article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Stephen R. Acker of the Communication Department/Center for the Advanced Study of Telecommunications at The Ohio State University discusses collaboration in a virtual world. He writes:”The innovations in academic work space are elevated to a contest for institutional survival as these technologies have weakened the ‘natural monopoly’ of educational institutions once afforded by physical presence. The birthing of this new work space will have its most pragmatic manifestations and fiercest battles in defining what is an accepted education, the purview of accreditation. Accreditation, a process that itself has relied on a sense of place for its enforcement, is ill-prepared for this contest.Ó

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: E-learning

Name of publication: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Title, headline, chapter name: Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/acker/ACKTEXT.HTM

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne