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Download full textWeisburg, Michael; Ullmer, Eldon J. – 1995
This paper "revisits" distance learning by addressing its past achievements, its present state, and its future in the face of the rapidly converging computer and communications technologies and the goals and potential that underlie the creation of the proposed National Information Infrastructure (NII). The analysis was undertaken…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Futures (of Society), Government Role
Farquhar, John A. – 1972
The concept of "computer utility"--the provision of computing and information service by a utility in the form of a national network to which any person desiring information could gain access--has been gaining interest among the public and among the technical community. This report on planning community information utilities discusses the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Computers, Educational Change
Rubin, Philip A. – 1984
This exploration of possible information and communications developments in the future focuses on the picture of the family or individual depending on access to information as a key to their status in society. The scenario involves the home as the center for conducting business, banking, shopping, and receiving lifelong education, and this paper…
Descriptors: Broadcast Reception Equipment, Broadcast Television, Communications Satellites, Futures (of Society)
Moller, Morten, Ed.; Shaughnessy, Haydn, Ed. – 1991
This report is based on contributions to two workshops arranged jointly by Task Force Human Resources and the DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) Unit. The purpose of collecting these papers was to provide an overview of the implications of the DELTA Exploratory Action outcomes for future research. After the preface…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1993
Internetworked communications restructures relationships among educators, learners, and knowledge and information, and promises a systemic acceleration of the pace of educational change. In this report, the Task Force on Education Network Technology identifies the following rationales for deployment and utilization of such communications: to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Computer Networks
Groff, Warren H. – 2001
Trends in using computer technology for career development and human resources development in companies in the United States and worldwide were reviewed, and the possibilities of adapting the latest advances in digital technology-based training delivery systems in school-based contexts were explored. A model was proposed that entailed having chief…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
