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O'Brien, Dennis – Media and Methods, 1990
Explains site licensing, which grants certain microcomputer software rights to a school or district for a fee. Differences of rights among vendors are discussed, the impact of networking on-site licensing is described, and examples of the benefits of site licensing in public school districts are given. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Costs
Download full textHenderson, David L.; Renfrow, Raylene – 1992
The population of this study included the 111 public school districts in Education Service Center Regions IV and VI, serving 22 counties of southeast Texas in the Houston area. Seventy-five questionnaires were returned from 111 school districts with a return rate of 68%. A total of 24,222 computers were reported in use by the 75 districts with a…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Literacy, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Vaughan, Larry – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper considers the possible creation of communications networks for school superintendents, and discusses EdLink, a pilot joint venture among Apple and GEISCO (General Electric Information Services Corporation), the joint developers of AppleLink, and the office of the New Hampshire Governor's Excellence Initiative. Arguing that EdLink…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education
Sullivan, Michael F. – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper describes METN (Maryland Education Technology Network), a network which is designed to assist Maryland schools in developing instructional computing, while also working to provide equitable access to computers to all Maryland students. The process of creating the system is described, and a number of lessons learned from its development…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1996
The Ohio state-funded SchoolNet initiatives include two major components: "SchoolNet" and "SchoolNet Plus." SchoolNet provides telecommunications wiring among classrooms in individual school buildings; it also provides computers for low-wealth districts and supports technology-related professional development. SchoolNet Plus…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, George T. W., Jr. – 1989
The Northeastern Utah Telelearning Project was created in 1985 to remedy problems of meeting core curriculum requirements and providing educational equity in rural schools, and to provide cost effective educational delivery systems to school districts. It was determined that a distance educational computer network using audiographic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Networks, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Technology & Innovations in Education, Rapid City, SD. – 1997
This Technology & Innovations in Education (ITE) publication is a description of how a strategic technology planning process unfolded in four small, rural South Dakota school districts -- Britton, Isabel, Langford, and Sioux Valley. Goals 2000 grants were allocated for each district to develop a technology-based school improvement plan,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Graczyk, Sandra L. – 1987
Based on a doctoral dissertation that involved a study of the nation's 100 most successful school computer systems, this report summarizes the study's purpose, scope, methodology, resultant model, general observations, and future implications. The model is divided into two major sections: (1) strategic planning activities, focusing on computer…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Criteria
Laughlin, Richard – 1997
The Colorado Department of Education (CDE), including Access Colorado Library and Information Network (ACLIN) and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, provides state- level guidance and resources for Colorado's local school districts, local and regional libraries, and special populations. Technology is the enabler that offers basic,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Cooperation
