Distance education & technology: Future visions, Second annual professional development workshop, University College of the University of Maryland, Maryland, Online, Lecture, May 06, 1996.

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Many people consider on-line conferencing to be frivolous and wasteful of system resources. This has had in my mind profound consequences in the nature and shape of on-line conferencing today, beginning with the fact that its use must be justified over and over. Full article.  See also: http://www.downes.ca/post/42052