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Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Faculty at 11 higher education institutions in California, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico have been experimenting with computer conferencing on the BESTNET (Bilingual English-Spanish Telecommunications Network). The growing system is credited with creating an international student-faculty community that crosses cultural barriers for…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Computer Networks, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedRogers, Everett M.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Investigates the socioeconomic and gender equality aspects of the public's use of PEN (Public Electronic Network), a computer-based interactive communication system provided free to residents of Santa Monica (California). Topics discussed include public terminals; use by homeless people and by women; and participation in political communication…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Communications, Community Programs
