Oldie, but Goodie

Sometimes we run across information that is old for everyone else, but new for us. That's the case with this excellent article from the Online Journal of Distance Learning at West Georgia. This is a 2003 document but it fascinates me how relevant, accurate, and eerily predictive the 32 trends are/were.

Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Plannning

"Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This article provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are organized into categories as they pertain to students and enrollment, faculty members, academics, technology, the economy, and distance learning. All the trends were identified during an extensive review of current literature in the field."