Educause Leadership Strategies, Volume 4, Partnership in the Learning Marketspace
Chapter One
Partnerships in a
Learning Marketspace
Call it transformation; call it a tsunami. The growth in education
delivered on the Internet is occurring at digital speed, and
industries are jumping in, too. According to a 1999 New York Times
article, John T. Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems,
says, "The next big killer application for the Internet is going to be
education. Education via the Internet is going to be so big it is going
to make e-mail use look like a `rounding error' in terms of the Internet
capacity it will consume" (Friedman, 1999).
We contend that the means to riding the wave is through innovative
partnerships designed to meet pressing human needs. The
prioritie ... read full excerpt from Partnering in the Learning Marketspace ebook
