Recent advances in educational delivery technologies based primarily upon telecommunications and interactive multimedia give rise to opportunities for the development of new models of teaching and learning at a tertiary level. An integrated delivery model, Networked Learning, is being developed which seeks to provide a core of electronic services supplemented by appropriate traditional services such as face-to-face or tele-tutorials or paper based information based upon the students' geographical location. Many of these ideas are being trialed at Southern Cross University in Australia.
Whether a fundamental change in educational delivery patterns can be achieved is dependent on a number of success factors including support from the highest levels of the organisation, resourcing, faculty and student training and issues such as the gender and ethnicity of the student population.
