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Research Methods for Evaluating the New Information Technologies.
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Johnston, Jerome – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1984
Characteristics of new information technologies have implications for their evaluation. The instability of most technologies, and their novelty for most users, calls into question the value of experimental summative studies. Their interactive character challenges the traditional formative paradigm. Case studies and field experiments can help to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests
Computers and Telecommunications. A Survey of the Status, Characteristics and Implications of the Information Society. An Element of the Accreditation Self-Study at College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas.
Vaughan, Jerry L. – 1982
Prepared as part of the College of the Mainland's reaffirmation of accreditation, this report describes international interest in the information society concept, and defines an information society as the evolutionary outcome of the progressive development and decentralization of computing technology and communications technology. The…
Descriptors: Computers, Delivery Systems, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
Evaluating New Media Systems.
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Rice, Ronald E. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1984
New media, such as electronic mail and word processing, are playing increasingly important roles in communication activities, especially in organizational settings. This article reviews the process by which new media are diffused, and describes some characteristics of new media that have implications for evaluation research. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Communications, Computers, Data Collection
Children, Information and New Technologies.
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Cook, John – 1982
As technological change affects current lifestyles and will continue to affect access to information, children should remain a primary consideration, with new technology serving to provide information to them. The growing importance of information is fundamental to recent technological change based on the development of computers and the silicon…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Childhood Needs, Children, Delivery Systems
Electronic Information Delivery Systems. Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee Meeting (Washington, D.C., April 18-20, 1984). Network Planning Paper Number 9.
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Library of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Program Session of the April 1984 meeting of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) was devoted to discussion of electronic information delivery systems. Recent developments in six areas were covered: (1) electronic manuscript generation and transmission; (2) online full-text searching and retrieval; (3) online database…
Descriptors: Databases, Delivery Systems, Electronic Equipment, Information Dissemination
Selected Bibliographies and State-of the-Art Review for Socio-cultural Factors in Health. Volume 4: Socio-cultural Factors in Health References. International Health Planning Reference Series.
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Fraser, Renee White; Shani, Hadasa – 1979
Intended as a companion picce to volume 4 in the Method Series, Sociocultural Factors in Health Planning (CE 024 232), this fourth of six volumes in the International Health Planning Reference Series is a combined literature review and annotated bibliography dealing with social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of delivering, planning, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior, Beliefs, Cultural Influences