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Mays, M. E.; Lumsden, D. Barry – 1989
The National Technological University (NTU), a consortium of approximately 30 American engineering schools which has been in operation on a continent-wide scale since 1985, uses telecommunications to broadcast engineering education courses to corporate sites across the country. Courses are produced at member institutions and are distributed to…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Networks, Continuing Education, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. Western Cooperative for Educational Communications. – 1993
This document provides an overview of the various telecommunications and information technologies available for rural communities to use in their health care systems. The first section explains the principal technologies of telecommunications such as the telephone, computer networking, audiographics, and video. It describes transmission systems…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Continuing Education
Montana State Office of Public Instruction, Helena. Dept. of Educational Technology. – 1991
The first of two sections of this report is a brochure which provides a description of METNET, the Montana Educational Telecommunications Network, which is designed to provide instructional and educational course work for K-12 students and students enrolled in units of the Montana University System, vocational-technical centers, and community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Budgeting, Computer Networks, Continuing Education
Fishwick, W., Ed. – 1989
This book presents 16 papers on problems and innovations in postsecondary engineering education. An introduction discusses the major issues currently facing engineering education. Chapter 2 briefly reviews the papers which are grouped under topics. Three of thee papers comment on teaching non-technical matters and attitudes. Two papers point out…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Ben-Jacob, Marion G. – 1998
This paper describes plans for a four-day workshop for college and university faculty to provide instructors exposure to the workings of a successful online educational system and to open up for discussion such issues as what type of technological enhancements would facilitate the online teaching of mathematics and science courses, which have…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Continuing Education
Gibson, Chere Campbell, Comp. – 1990
Presentations at this conference focused on future developments in distance education and innovative uses of learning technologies. Ten papers from the general sessions, including keynote addresses and a panel, are presented in the first of two sections. Topics covered include planning for new priorities in distance education; trends for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Networks, Continuing Education
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. – 1997
Presentations at this conference focused on how organizations and individuals are improving their efforts to serve learners at a distance through innovative approaches to competition and collaboration. Rapid developments in technology promise expanded access to education and training resources, but the developments challenge traditional policies…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Communications Satellites, Computer Networks, Continuing Education
Hrimech, Mohamed, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 35 papers and 4 symposia/poster sessions presented at a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Adult Education on the Internet: New Dawn Breaking or Sky Falling?" (Archer); "'Shapeshifting': Negotiating Identity in First Nations Adult…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators
