Individualised Learning and Remote Access Information Systems

Abstract

Like many other institutions in our culture, higher education is very easily diverted. As a profession we find ourselves, particularly with respect to technology, catering to obsolescence and irresistibly attracted to novelty, like so many lemmings drawn to the sea. It is not difficult, then, to understand the importance attached to innovation as it has spread throughout the education establishment. Our restless need for newness characterises us as a nation. The ritualistic annual model change of consumer goods is symptomatic of this national trait. In federal support of education in the past twelve years, it would be difficult to find a guideline criterion more frequently cited or eagerly sought than that of innovation in proposals being considered for funding.