Resumen
In the article, the author says that universities are scrambling to get into the distance-education business. There are a few obvious reasons why a university might want to offer virtual courses, reasons ranging from additional student revenue to the exploration of new teaching methods, although the author seriously doubt the latter is high on any university president's mind. Web courses must differ from what is currently offered on campus. They must be different for three reasons as current courses aren't very good, the length, material covered, and general methodology in college courses are derived from practical considerations irrelevant in this new medium, and courses are offered on a computer, one could do some neat stuff. Beyond that, one reason people don't remember is that it's actually very difficult to simply listen when someone talks. The designer of a goal-based scenario needs to worry about natural methods of learning and how performance objectives can be met within those constraints.