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