SHEFFIELD LECTURE - YALE UNIVERSITY JANUARY 11, 2000 INTERNET LEARNING: IS IT REAL AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR UNIVERSITIES?

My interest in learning over networks dates back to 1989. In 1989 there was no commercial Internet. It was hard to get people interested in learning over networks or to even to understand what learning over networks meant or could mean. Fortunately, in 1992 I was joined at the Sloan Foundation by an extremely able program director, Frank Mayadas. Then we were able to get a real program started.