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Rosenberg, M. (2001) e-Learning: Strategies for delivering knowledge in the digital age. McGraw-Hill, p. 256.

“Allow the new e-business to take the market away from the traditional business – or someone else will. This will force a reexamination of what parts of the traditional business are worth saving, and what parts are not.”

This is true for educational institutions as well. When educators hang onto the “world is flat” mentality, e-learning is just a fad mentality, they will find that the world will begin to question their relevancy to modern society and culture. Educational systems cannot be afraid to move into new arenas for fear of fall out of faculty. For every “old fossil” that does not want to be innovative and use tools to assist the learner, there will be those that are willing to live on the edge of trial and improvement. By the way, the term “old fossil” is not necessarily a reference to chronology, someone in their 20’s and 30’s can become relics and provincial in there thinking and pedagogy.