Increasingly, academic and further education are offered via the Web. It may be said that the increase in the number of courses and programs available through this channel has not been matched by an increase in the quality of teaching and in examples of excellent use of technology itself. Efforts to develop and sustain teachers and teaching methods, as well as systems of delivery, therefore, seem to be necessary, if not already overdue. This paper outlines some recent trends in Swedish distance education, among them learning centres and the Swedish Net University, and tries in that context to identify the place and form of case teaching in a probable and probably not so distant future.