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Peer reviewedGruska, Jozef – Education and Computing, 1993
Describes shortcomings of computer science/engineering education and explains a new focus on informatics. Highlights include simulation, visualization, algorithmization, design of information processing models, parallel computing, a history of informatics, informatics versus physics and mathematics, and implications for education. (51 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Science Education, Computer Simulation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedNewby, Gregory B. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1993
Discusses the current state of the art in virtual reality (VR), its historical background, and future possibilities. Highlights include applications in medicine, art and entertainment, science, business, and telerobotics; and VR for information science, including graphical display of bibliographic data, libraries and books, and cyberspace.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Business, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewedOswitch, Pauline – Library and Information Science Research, 1983
Describes British Library's work on Systems Dynamics, a set of techniques for building simulation models based on analysis of information feedback loops. Highlights include macro-simulation modelling activities of social science disciplines, systems analyses and models of information retrieval processes and library services, policy models, and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Simulation, Games, Information Retrieval
Daniel, Christopher – Political Science Teacher, 1990
Examines proposals to computerize the political science curricula. Maintains that technological changes can support mainstream political science education, and provides criteria to determine whether microcomputers should be introduced. Questions whether fundamental abilities are improved by technology, and warns students may believe outcomes will…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation
Le Corre, Yves; Schwartz, Jacob – 1984
Prepared for a 1984 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference, this report on the educational applications of new information technologies focuses primarily on the use of interactive audiovisual systems. Potential advantages of interactive multimedia educational environments are discussed and examples are given of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classroom Environment, Compliance (Legal), Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textHawkridge, David – 1989
This paper examines the use of computers and communication technology for the storage, retrieval, dissemination, creation, analysis, and transformation of information. Examples are provided of the use of compact disks for the storage and retrieval of counselling and research information. To demonstrate the role of information technology in…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Simulation, Desktop Publishing, Distance Education
