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ERIC Number: ED278385
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Feb-28
Pages: 9
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The CADET Project: Computer Assisted Distance Education Telecommunication for Post Secondary Education in Alberta. A Report to the Program Planning and Development Branch, Alberta Department of Advanced Education, Program Services Division, February 28, 1985. Final Report.
Kirman, Joseph M.; Goldberg, Jack
Since its inception in 1984, the CADET (Computer-Assisted Distance Education Telecommunications), a micro to mainframe computer program developed by the University of Oklahoma but modified for use at the University of Alberta in Canada, has achieved major results. Its successful use in delivering a distance education graduate course in which both the student and teacher used the CADET system for questions, answers, and course content information has resulted in this course being offered to students anywhere in the world serviced by the Datapac system. Additionally, interest has been expressed in offering courses to teachers in the field using CADET for the subject areas of social studies, movement education, and mathematics education. It has also been incorporated as one of the distance education techniques for a proposed Masters of Education degree in Adult and Higher Education at the University of Alberta. A second phase of the project was the transformation of the program for digital analysis of Landsat satellite images on the Apple microcomputer from U.S. to Canadian format, which allows a user to download satellite map data via telephone from a mainframe computer to a microcomputer and manipulate the data with several analysis programs. Funding is being considered for use of this procedure by teachers in the fields of environment, geography, social studies, and science in the province of Alberta. (DJR)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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