Distance Course on Electronic Democracy and Identity Theft

I recently had a discussion with a colleague at a medium sized university.

The question was - 'How can we reach new clienteles?"

I suggested offering an all distance learning class I've developed and which attracts large numbers of students and has gotten excellent reviews.

My colleague said "We are not that kind of university. Maybe in the summer of you have a month or two we can schedule it and you can come and tech".

"That kind of university?!" Is that like "I AM NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL?!"

The perception out there (and even "in here") seems to still be that distance learning (i.e. all web based classes) are only for Phoenix University or the even less "respected" fly-by-night degree mills.

This is astonishing and shows that we in the IT, Distance Education community have done a lousy job in educating university folks on the sophisticated and high quality education we can now offer at a distance.

We have a long way to go. And we need to go out there and educate!