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Pirani, Judith A. – EDUCAUSE, 2014
This Core Data Service (CDS) Spotlight focuses on public computing resources, including lab/cluster workstations in buildings, virtual lab/cluster workstations, kiosks, laptop and tablet checkout programs, and workstation access in unscheduled classrooms. The findings are derived from 758 CDS 2012 participating institutions. A dataset of 529…
Descriptors: Workstations, Community Information Services, Trend Analysis, Access to Computers
Hancock, Val – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2010
The Open University, an open distance learning institution, is increasingly using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that requires internet access. This paper investigates how the move to a VLE has affected one group of students who do not have internet access--offender learners studying in prison. Members of the armed forces and secure hospital…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Open Universities, Action Research, Distance Education
Pierce, Alan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
The nonprofit organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has a mission that is easy to articulate but very challenging to achieve: Provide laptop computers to the almost 2 billion children who live in parts of the world where poverty and the lack of a structured educational system deprive them of an adequate education. To further complicate the…
Descriptors: Computers, Nonprofit Organizations, Computer Uses in Education, Appropriate Technology
McCall, H. Carl – 2002
This audit reports on the availability of computer resources at the City University of New York's (CUNY) senior colleges. CUNY is the largest urban and the third largest public university system in the United States. Of the 19 CUNY campuses located throughout the five boroughs, 11 are senior colleges offering four-year degrees. For the fall 2001…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Appropriate Technology, Budgets, Community Colleges
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Smithey, Margaret W.; Hough, Bradley W. – T.H.E. Journal, 1999
Discusses the importance of introducing preservice teachers to the use of technology and how to integrate it into their classrooms. Describes one teacher's development of multimedia programs and emphasizes availability of and access to computers in schools, careful planning, the use of appropriate technology, and student motivation. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Appropriate Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Planning
Brickman, Alan; Braun, Linda W.; Stockford, Marge – 2000
An evaluation (involving questionnaires, telephone interviews, focus groups, site visits, e-mail questions, and lab observation) assessed the success in implementing a statewide technology plan for adult literacy programs in Massachusetts that grew out of a set of recommendations developed by the Massachusetts Adult Literacy Technology Team…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs