Abstract
This is a time of transition from blackboard and chalk and use of the overhead projector to the general-purpose projection system capable of handling all formats of digital and analog media and the classroom where there is a networked computer at each seat. Distance learning opportunities abound and are being explored, especially in the health science and engineering disciplines and professions where there are continuing education requirements.The ability to deliver credit courses to homes and business locations represents a potentially significant revenue source for universities in the years to come. Our classrooms of the future must be designed to accommodate the widest range of distance learning situations. We now have the opportunity to link people and information resources in our region by using videoconferencing and video mail. Extending the classroom to wherever the student is located is the logical end of these early ventures. Information technology, properly developed, will produce the customized electronic learning environment we believe will be the hallmark of higher education in the twenty-first century.