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Percent of Firms Downsizing by Business Category

From 1980 to 1994, the U.S. contingent workforce—temps, self-employed, consultants—increased 57%

Constant training, retraining, job-hopping, and even career-hopping will become the norm.

Today, 65% of all workers use some type of information technology in their jobs. By 2000, this will increase to 95%.

The Enrollment Pipeline

An Aging Clientele for Higher Education

Cyber-Universities

“Diplomas decline as degrees of separation in the workforce”

Crisis in College Costs

What has changed is…the public’s…willingness to support institutions that value producers more than products.Zemsky and Massey, 1995

“Your instructional system is driven by teaching rather than by learning, by the needs of professors rather than students.”Sir John S. Daniel, 1997

Technological Tools

“…with good learning materials, effective networks, and proper support, students can learn better at home than in class.”Sir John Daniel, 1997

Natural Learning

Uses of Technology

“From sage on the stage to guide on the side”

Author: James L. Morrison

Email: morrison@unc.edu

Home Page: /horizon

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