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Gartner's most recent higher-education distributed-learning survey indicates that e-learning has made rapid technological advances, but still faces obstacles that will challenge many distributed-learning initiatives.  Read More Distributed Learning in Higher Education: Service First Higher-education institutions see distributed learning primarily as a student service initiative, and only secondarily as a marketing channel or cost-saving device. Higher-Education Institutions Should Select a Standard CMS There is e-learning product confusion in many higher-education institutions. They should select a single course management system to reduce support costs and for faculty/student ease of use. Supplemental Beats Remote in Higher-Education E-Learning The real growth of e-learning in higher education is in supplementing traditional instruction, not in purely remote courses. Students and faculty increasingly expect e-learning to augment classroom instruction. Academic E-Learning Must Confront Content Development Costs Contrary to early hopes, e-learning is making academic instruction more expensive. Higher education must find better, less-costly ways to fill its e-learning conduits. Integration Indicates Higher-Education E-Learning Commitment Course management system integration with administrative systems shows that higher-education institutions are committed to their e-learning platforms. Batch integration dominates, but real-time will soon be essential. Higher-Education IT Gets Academic Academic IT is positioned for a new -- and expensive -- pre-eminence among campus IT priorities. Effective Corporate-Academic E-Learning Partnerships Higher-education institutions increasingly form partnerships with corporate enterprises to develop e-learning programs, but these partnerships must be built on a mutual understanding of academic and corporate cultures.