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Download full textBichelmeyer, B. A.; Kiggins, Elizabeth A. – 1998
This paper highlights features, uses, and training issues related to AltaVista Forums, a World Wide Web-based conferencing tool. An overview of the features of AltaVista Forums is provided; highlights include asynchronous online discussions, chats, document attachments, URL posting, a calendar feature, and mail-to listings. Pricing and system…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Higher Education
Anderson, Lynn; McCarthy, Cathy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
This report examines three text-based conferencing products: "WowBB", "Invision Power Board", and "vBulletin". Their selection was prompted by a feature-by-feature comparison of the same products on the "WowBB" website. The comparison chart painted a misleading impression of "WowBB's" features in relation to the other two products; so the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Educational Technology
Laufer, Carlos; Fuks, Hugo; de Lucena, Carlos J. P. – 1998
This paper presents the results of an experiment using videoconferencing in a distance graduate course in the Computer Science Department at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The purpose of the experiment was to test two videoconference technologies that are widely used on the Internet, Cu-SeeMe and Real technology, and to assess…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewedKaplan, Irene Petzinger; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1996
A distance education course in drug information, scholarly literature evaluation, and biostatistics, offered as part of a doctoral pharmacy program, incorporates teleconferencing and online critiquing of pharmacy journal literature. Structure of the class, software and hardware, student performance, and student response to the teaching methods are…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Assignments, Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques
