In reading the other class members' vision of the year 2020 in education I found that we mostly shared a similar view of higher education.  Rob Whittaker, Bing Pan, Tsui-Ju Chen and Xiao Yu's papers were all very similar to mine in that technology cannot replace fully the experience of learning or living for that matter.  Karim Ezzatkhah's view of the primary purpose of traditional post secondary education differed from mine in that it seemed he was saying that the traditional learning institutions would remain there for the people learning basic skills as opposed to my thought that those would be the first places that technology might strip away the traditional classroom.  So Young Kim made a good point about the diversity in what a campus has to offer and how one would really go about getting a degree.  The thought of taking classes from multiple universities simultaneously didn't really occur to me as a course of action to attaining a degree.  Paula Marcuzzi had the same hesitancy that I did to really speculate about what the future might bring when it comes to technology.  Also, her point about time constraints and falling victim to the convenience at the cost of other activities such as family was a good one. Mika Saito and Nizar Alshuwaiman both made good points about the exclusionary aspects of technology in education.  Norma Scagnoli made a good point about the increased work load put upon the instructor.  We have discussed this issue in class as well.  Paula made similar points with the "up 'til 3 am working".  Bonnie Troesken also made a good point about the thoughtful planning that will be necessary to implement effective uses of the technology.  With the pace that technology develops, this sometimes gets lost in the shuffle.

Overall I feel that the class is in agreement that there are benefits as well as compromises necessary with the advance of technology in education and the next 30 years will be interesting and eventful.  Yet, we don't foresee universities as we know them disappearing off the face of the earth just yet.