Education, Commerce and Communications
Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology
The emergence of Internet as a national and world network is having a profound effect on education and training. No more profound is the opening of education at all levels to the field of commerce. In the future, no level of education or training will ever be characterized by geographical limitations. This will have its benefits and its problems. The ultimate evolution of education and commerce on the Internet will depend up on the realization that the primary social benefit of the Internet is as a communications system.
Related Web Based Articles:
Alternative Futures for Distance Learning: The Force and the Darkside,
http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/darkaln.html
The Marketplace Road to the Information Highway,
http://www.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/VC/Papers/Market.html
Dr. Turoff, is a Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is responsible for the development of the first group communication system in 1970 and has a background in industry and government before joining academia. He is co-author of the award winning book: The Network Nation. For over 25 years he has been engaged in R&D activities associated with Group Communications.
Current activities have focuses on the design of systems to support learning and decision support as collaborative activities.