That's the question asked at The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration - Can distance education be mainstreamed? We'd love to Hear from you about this article, so mail michael@online-universities.com with your comments - be sure to tag the subject as "Can Distance Education Go Mainstream?" We'd love to hear from more people about this, and any of the subjects covered here. Also, if you are in a distance education or online university course, we'd like to hear from you about how it is going.

The term " mainstreaming&lrquo; is often used to capture distance education's re-positioning within traditional universities. However, the results of a study of written distance education policies in four land grant universities challenge the implied widespread acceptance and integration of distance education into the educational mainstream. Furthermore, the results reveal major issues that compromise distance education's capacity to be mainstreamed into all relevant areas of the university system.