Frank McCluskey has been at the forefront of the online revolution in higher education since the 1980s. He took his PhD in Philosophy with a thesis on Hegel from the New School and has been a National Endowment Post Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. He has published numerous articles and has lectured all over the world. He has served as Dean of Online Learning at Mercy College in New York and is the retired Provost of the American Public University System where he oversaw more than 85,000 students and 1,600 faculty, all operating online. Melanie Winter's career in academia has been spent in