INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION
... Introduction Martin Wellers recent book, Delivering Learning on the Net: the Why, What, and How of Online Education, is aimed at several audiences. These include educators seeking guidance in online course development, administrators with decision-making responsibilities for online education, and readers in the commercial sector who are offering online educational products. ... Also, Weller is the author of numerous articles on online education. As the books subtitle suggests, Weller is concerned with the Why, What, and How of Online Education. In keeping with this, the first four chapters explore why the Net is important for education. Successive chapters follow up with some of the theoretical and implementation issues associated with online education. ... Overview Weller opens with a discussion of the significance of the Net for education. ... Thus, as an education technology, the Net tends to be more accessible than its predecessors. ... Of the first myth, that online learning leads to the commercialization of education, Weller suggests that commercial organizations will have difficulties in gaining access to the education market, for example, in meeting accreditation requirements. ... Weller shows how education can be deconstructed into a value chain of specialized services that could be performed by specialized businesses. ... At times, Weller seems caught up in his own infatuation with education technology––a book by a teacher of technology about using technology to teach––yet this surely is an understandable ingredient in the motivation to write such a book.