Discusses results of a grant-funded project, "Leading Young Women to the Sciences and Technology," that led to the creation of the Gender-Based Web Site Evaluation Model for selecting Web sites of high interest to young women. The model includes eight evaluation criteria related to gender. The revised model and a list of questions to…

Uses focus groups to facilitate identification and discussion of respondents' Internet experience. Explores respondents' awareness and experience of flow-identified in research as a key characteristic of Internet consumer behavior. Finds half the respondents recognized Internet flow experience and Internet flow seems to prolong Internet and Web…

Building upon four previous planning documents for computing at College of DuPage in Illinois, this plan for fiscal year 1995 (FY95) provides a starting point for future plans to address all activities that relate to the use of information technology on campus. The FY95 "Information Technology Plan" is divided into six sections, each…

Presents the digital age challenge of tailoring information technologies to support activities of individual communities of users, while creating a globally distributed information infrastructure enabling systems and services to interoperate. Examines: "What is a digital collection?""What is a library?""What is a…

Viewing high-resolution images on the World Wide Web at a level of detail necessary for collaborative research is still a problem today, given the Internet's current bandwidth limitations and its ever increasing network traffic. ImageEyes is an interactive display tool being developed at Utah State University that addresses this problem by…

Defines the six key pressures that have given rise to the emerging enterprise academic-computing imperative. These include the pressure to (1) improve instructional quality; (2) unify disparate academic-computing resources; (3) demonstrate return on network investment; (4) reach more students; (5) lower costs in delivery of instruction; and (6)…

The University of Michigan's computer training program serves over 10,000 faculty, staff, and students annually in a number of formats and on varied topics. Critical components include solicitation and use of user feedback and partnerships formed with administrative offices, staff, and faculty to ensure needs are met. (MSE)

Presents trends and future possibilities in the areas of distance education; handheld wireless information delivery devices; computer applications; academic and administrative computing; electronic communications, including the role of government and public subsidies; and the national information infrastructure, including user needs. (LRW)