Business advisory firm Deloitte predicts in a new report that a small contingent of elite academics will be lecturing to thousands via technology by 2010. It suggests that institutions and lesser known names will lose power as students get their academic feeds directly over internetworked connections using new learning technology for support.

E-learning is not a new thing but for anyone who has made use of these technologies in teaching knows they are fraught with bittersweet experiences. Students stop showing up for lectures but new frontiers of teaching and learning open up. 

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See blog post Can you Hear me at the Back on Guardian blogs

If you are an academic who fits a cozy techno-neophyte profile and you think all this blogging business is confusing enough, buckle your seatbelts because the next wave is nearly upon us. At a seminar last week faculty members at Wilfred Laurier University in Canada "looked into the crystal ball to explore what they might be dealing with when the next generation of students -- dubbed "neo-millennials" -- bursts onto the university scene."

"If universities are right, seven to 10 years from now, your Lucy, now in Grade 6, will be a technology force to be reckoned with when she visits a professor's office to discuss an assignment."

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"WITHIN the next 12 months, every academic in an Australian law school should be blogging on a regular basis, or seriously considering their future in academia."

With that pervasive lead James McConvill, senior lecturer at La Trobe Law School, Melbourne, introduces us to his view on the value of blogging to academic legal scholarship.

Read more Blog or you won't be read in Australian publication The Age