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Byers, Anne – Rural Clearinghouse Digest, 1996
Rural areas lag behind urban areas in access to information technologies. Public institutions play a critical role in extending the benefits of information technologies to those who would not otherwise have access. The most successful rural telecommunications plans address barriers to use, such as unawareness of the benefits, technophobia, the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Information Services, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication

Education Week, 1996
This document contains all of the articles from an "Education Week" special report examining technology's role in bringing schools and homes closer together. Articles include: (1) "Homeward Bound" (Peter West), about one of the nation's first "virtual teachers" and the effect of the changing dynamics of the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks