March 15, 2007

In the language of public health, the “tipping point” is the point at which an outbreak becomes an epidemic--where the individual occurrences “spread by small changes that reproduce themselves and expand in geometric progression, grow bigger until they reach a ‘critical mass.’ Thereafter, any additional change alters the equilibrium and tips the system so that the disease becomes an epidemic.” The idea of the tipping point applies to the long-term acceptance of distance education within an institution, making it a permanent or even dominant part of the institution.

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