To successfully adopt new educational technologies and distance learning, Cassidy and Lane (1998) state that the focus needs to be on three primary concepts; first, that the benefits of the use of technology and distance learning's appearance will surface in an educational organization only after students and teachers have reasonable access to advanced multimedia and World Wide Web technology; second, that students learn by integrating their own knowledge and share that process with others in their classroom but may also do so across networks with effective instructors; and finally, that the combination of reasonable and universal access, student integration of knowledge, and facilitative learning will result in the transformation of learning and teaching .
We will take a three phased approach to examine Learning Networks; the philosophical issues of distance learning and theory, distinctive curricular issues, and the University of New Orleans multimedia lab.

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