It takes a different skill from classroom teaching, and it is more expensive than chalk.

Either way, most faculty will need help in becoming students again. While more-effective teaching should be its own reward, a major professional-development effort would provide a new opportunity to realign institutional and faculty goals. A radical expression would be to change the rules of tenure to require faculty to teach online or otherwise demonstrate their facility with 21st-century methodologies, as virtually every other employer now requires of their work force.

Ph.D. candidates should be encouraged to pursue alternatives to the traditional burnt offerings of scholarly monographs and books.