News: The Distance Ed Tipping Point - Inside Higher Ed

AUSTIN, TEX. -- As colleges moved into distance education, many questions were raised about how they could serve this new group of students. And colleges responded, with new ideas about online learning resources, academic advising online and so forth.

But what about after distance education takes off? At what point does the question shift from what a college does to offer quality online programs to how a college needs to change in its entirety when it reaches a tipping point in enrollments -- and at what point does such a change take place?