Wie weit ist die Integration von Electronic Distance Learning

auf die Zukunft der universitären Weiterbildung ein. Beson-dere Aufmerksamkeit richtet er dabei auf den Aspekt gleich-er Zugangschancen und auf soziale Faktoren. During the past five years college level e-learning has be-come an established feature on the US higher education land-scape. By one estimate (National Center for Educational Sta-tistics [NCES], 1998) over 31 % of all US colleges and universi-ties already offer some courses in this mode, with projections that the percentage will rise to over 90 % by the year 2007. Initially, this latest wave of educational technology charac-terized by networked computers and asynchronous instruction was greeted with skepticism, especially among educators. They had seen, in the past decades, overblown claims for distance education using television, newspapers, and lastly computers, with disappointing results. E-learning appeared to be more o