ABSTRACT
During the past five years, the unprecedented development of advanced educational technologies has transformed the potential of most colleges and universities to extend their educational programmes to distance learners. Today, however, this rapid transformation is blurring rather than differentiating institutional residential and outreach missions (Duderstadt, 1999; Hall, 1995, 1998). Institutional leaders must now examine the role of instructional technology in all its various contexts rather than adhering to the obsolete axiom-either we adopt educational technology to support all our institutional missions or we wait and see what’s on the horizon. As most leaders acknowledge, the convergence of campus and outreach missions is here to stay.
