Introduction

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What to Teach, How to Teach, Where to Teach...

Perhaps Socrates asked the questions first, but

What to teach, and

How to teach it are two of the biggest challenges still facing higher education.

Where to teach and what constitutes learning are two more.

Cyberschools presents my solution to the how-to and where-to teach questions that are increasingly at the forefront of international discussions about higher education's future.

Transforming Technologies

We now have entered the knowledge age. Information is everything. We have created technologies that are transforming the societies they touch from insular to international -- electronic communication technologies responsible for fax machines, cable television, satellite dishes, computers with CD-ROM players, the Internet and more.

A More Than Enticing Opportunity

Combine them with what is becoming a huge global demand for higher education, and the opportunity we now have to deliver that education electronically anywhere, anytime, any place becomes not just enticing but emphatic.

Where Education Fits

Education is how information becomes meaningful. Education is the tool of the knowledge worker -- that person who can produce the new designs and concepts that will define this new age.
Education, delivered electronically through TV, computers, the Internet and the like, is one education tool the knowledge-age worker can use anywhere, almost any place, nearly any time, and more cheaply than education that's delivered in one physical place such as a college campus.

Make the World a School

It's time to fuse our knowledge age electronic tools with our great teaching institutions and libraries. It's time to create a world that is, like Socrates' Athens once was, a great school, a world vibrant with interest about education, where educational opportunity is visible to all and hope is alive.

Additional topics and data presented in this introduction include

World literacy rates;

Higher education as an export product;

World education demand statistics;

Symbolic analysts;

Electronic platforms;

Educational television terminology abuses;

speed and efficiency.