If structured high-quality learning materials are available online to whoever has access to a computer and modem, without constraints of time and place, then the traditional residential teaching university becomes – from the students’ perspective at least – largely redundant. (This would then also enable universities to recapture their historical role as centers for research and for the “pursuit of knowledge,” as is exemplified in the UK for instance by residential research activities at the Milton Keynes campus of the Open University.)
Predictor: Hutchison, Chris
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article, “The ‘ICP OnLine’: Jeux sans frontires on the CyberCampus,” from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Chris Hutchison of the School of Information Systems, Kingston University, discusses education online. He writes: ÒIf structured high-quality learning materials are available online to whoever has access to a computer and modem, without constraints of time and place, then the traditional residential teaching university becomes – from the students’ perspective at least – largely redundant. (This would then also enable universities to recapture their historical role as centers for research and for the ‘pursuit of knowledge,’ as is exemplified in the UK for instance by residential research activities at the Milton Keynes campus of the Open University.)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: The ‘ICP OnLine’: Jeux sans frontires on the CyberCampus
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/hutchison/CHRISR.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne