ABSTRACT
Speculating on the basis of presumed incentives, one would guess that few professors in prestige institutions would long sit watching tele-lectures given by remote colleagues. The technology that may turn out to be of most interest to research-oriented higher education institutions, and perhaps others as well is digital data transmission. These institutions are currently experiencing an explosion in demand for computer services, which is being met, not by expanding mainframe installations, but by distributing powerful minicomputers and desktop computers around the campus and connecting them together with all manner of peripheral equipment through local area networks. The developed countries already have made big investments in very labor-intensive traditional institutions whose staffs have no incentives, as we noted earlier, to use TV in any substantial way for instruction on campus.
