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Some of the ideas presented in the Moore & Kearsley article offer food for thought to the average college student or instructor. This is especially true in regards to the idea that investment in educational technology has exploded but that programs designed for that additional technology has not kept pace with that explosion. The thought that "you, as an individual instructor or as administrator I an institution, could knit together to make up a course, constructed with materials that came from a range of vendors" (296) is an intriguing and interesting ideal that could be a lot closer to reality than most people realize. This opportunity has essentially come to pass due to the ongoing investment in advancing technology made by educational, corporate and governmental agencies. What is disturbing is that the article also documents the fact that many of those same agencies have taken a more austere approach to the content being produced by that technology.

The statement "the same instructor who teaches in the classroom also teaches the course on the internet, and the same person provides most of the content, the design of instruction, and the interaction with the learner" found on page 298 is a prime example of why individuals might be disturbed with current trends. Considering the fact that there is "between 1 and 2 exabytes of new information per year, an exabyte being a billion gigabytes" (288) if much of that 'new' information is the same old information being rehashed or presented in the same old mediocre style, then the technology needed to bring that information to fruit could be seen as relatively useless.

The huge amounts of capital being spent to continuously upgrade that technology could therefore be considered as useless expenditures as well.

What is exciting is that the fact that the article espouses such information and that the article (as evidenced by the fact that a report by numerous students) has to be examined and written about. This is evidence that the information is being taken seriously, which could certainly be seen as good news for the deployment of such technology and the resultant data.

The continuing growth of online access can only mean that there will be more dollars spent on maintaining not only the access but the recurrent information that access allows. The article states that "by some estimates, about 50% of the U.S. population has access to the Internet" (289)and that there are indications of "800 million people online" (289). These numbers are strong indicators that the desire for information continues to be a phenomenal factor that investments in the technology and information will continue to pay huge dividends for the foreseeable future.

Other countries have realized that the potential is there with many European and Asian governments making huge investments in technology infrastructure. One recent article states, "adoption of next-gene ration Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the next-generation US. may get a lift from a recent deal signed by Juniper Networks to employ its routing platforms to power the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) project, quite possibly the most elaborate undertaking of its kind… READ MORE

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