The most recent educational innovation to capture widespread attention derives from the linking of rapidly maturing informational technologies to the renewed interest in how, when, and why people learn. Technically defined as electronically mediated instruction, but dubbed "e-learning" to mark its place within the larger e-commerce revolution,…

England is revolutionizing its entire educational system with its Open University of extension education. (Editor/IR)

A skeptic about the good reputation achieved by Miami-Dade Community College in recent years undertook a critical study of what the college was doing and how it has changed since 1960. (MSE)

Faculty recalcitrance is seen as a barrier to college use of instructional technology, since faculty are often locked into their own instructional systems. Course development, investment returns, faculty conservatism and the research university, and policies and practices to facilitate the use of instructional technology are discussed. (MLW)