by Peter Hartcher, WAtoday
“There are no national boundaries in cyberspace,” says Jim Barber, former vice-chancellor of New England University. He argues that Australia is vulnerable to the threat, but can turn online courses into an advantage: “Australia needs to lift its eyes, particularly to the Asia-Pacific where we enjoy a time-zone advantage over North America and Europe and could extend our domestic classes to Asia online in real time via telepresence.” Barber, too, turns to the comparison with the car sector: “If universities are to avoid the fate of the car industry, the best that the government can do is clear the way for them to get on with the daunting and unfamiliar tasks ahead of them.”
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