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work_vnixtekwwbdp5kfwqq7brrdpmm	Douglas B. Eamon	Distance education: Has technology become a threat to the academy?	1999	11	.pdf	application/pdf	8981	602	52	Recent discussions regarding technology-assisted distance education have given rise both to enthusiastic predictions about how this form of instruction will transform higher educational institutions and to widespread fears about the threats that this technology poses to the student-teacher relationship and to the profession of university teacher in general, A review of opinions regarding distance education and computer technology in academia suggests a continuum of positions, ranging from the expectation that dramatic and even cataclysmic changes will lead to the eventual dissolution of the university to an envisioning of only minor changes in the academy's objectives and distance education and technology will affect their interactions with students and their roles as professors. Distance education, unlike any particular classroombased technological innovation, gives rise to the possibility of a radical transformation of the social and intellectual role of the classroom teacher within the institution the university is bleak and that distance education and technology will ultimately replace-or become-the teacher	./cache/work_vnixtekwwbdp5kfwqq7brrdpmm.pdf	./txt/work_vnixtekwwbdp5kfwqq7brrdpmm.txt