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The emerging information and communications technologies
(ICT) have the potential to strengthen education and make
universities more responsive to the needs of their students. The
emergence and the proliferation of models for online and
flexible learning initiated a process of convergence between the
traditionally distinct and separate distance education and faceto-
face education as universities are becoming increasingly
enabled to collaborate and develop innovative teaching
initiatives. This paper explores some of the ways in which
institutions can use technological progress to their best
advantage and how they can improve the horizontal bonds
between them by adapting and implementing Internet based
technologies based on the premise that as distance no longer
determines the cost of communicating electronically, common
interests and experience, and shared pursuits rather than
proximity bind stakeholders together. Finally the ways in
which the role of the teacher is changing from that of a subject
expert to that of a facilitator and counsellor who uses the World
Wide Web and high-speed/ high-capacity networks as a vehicle
to perform are considered with a focus on how the improved
new technologies can be used to support the common interests,
experience and academic objectives in different institutions,
and to contribute to the creation of a global learning
environment.
