It was during the fiscal year 1993 the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) undertook the most significant change in its approach to military education since the school's inception. In a total departure from the military norm, the school moved from a traditional lecture-based, passive learning environment to a demanding state-of-the-art computer-based curriculum, supported by world-class hyper-information systems. This architecture allows the student to access the multitude of information superhighway products both internal to the Air University (AU) and national on-line systems.

Moving beyond the 600 student residence program, these systems are rapidly revolutionizing our "Distance Learning" effort supporting over 6,000 students. This exciting thrust includes three major prongs: multimedia hyperlinked curriculum on CD-ROMs, on-line "cyber" seminars, and video-teleconferencing to complete the student/faculty interaction.