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others say its high cost and lack of certain key features-such as a video camera-will keep them from investing in the device for their classrooms,

The factor that will close that “enthusiasm gap” is the growing use of distance education by well-respected universities, Mr. Zogby predicts in the book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).

Which “national surveys” is Ms. Blumenstyk referring to? I would like to see the citation. The Sloan Foundation has completed many national annual surveys that find Ms. Blumenstyk’s statement to be a myth. Furthermore, she is mixing apples and oranges – she could be referring to an Eduventure’s study that shows many employers are wary of students with degrees from completely online universities, but that has nothing to do with the perception toward distance or online learning in general. Jeffrey Seaman from the Sloan Consortium notes that “virtual universities,” where “100 percent of the applicant’s courses were taken online, represents less than 1 percent of all institutions offering online programs.” Mr. Zogby’s prediction that the growing use of distance education by “well-respected universities” will make distance learning more popular is accurate, but it is not new. Distance education is already more popular and has seen a steady increase in enrollments for the many years.