The second of two volumes, this report provides a brief description of a 1987 conference on distance education together with 21 papers that were presented in the informational sessions. The papers included in this volume are: (1) "Evaluation of Student Outcomes in Distance Education" (Charles Feasley); (2) "Principles of Effective Video…

"Planning Your Partnership," a statewide teleconference presented by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), is described and evaluated in this report. Teleconference objectives included the solicitation of high-quality proposals for CAPP grants, increased information dissemination, and expanded experience with teleconference…

Implementation and evaluation of the "Building Your Partnership" teleconference, presented by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), is described in this report. Information on CAPP's second teleconference includes background and objectives; planning, reception, and convening; and conference evaluation. A conclusion is that…

The audio teleconference summarized in this report joined six state education agencies (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) and the National Institute of Education with experts nationally and abroad for 3 days in April 1984. Presentations summarized include (1) "The Need to Consider Alternative Delivery,"…

Included in these proceedings are edited versions of presentations given at a conference which was designed to provide an overview of some of the major telecommunication developments likely to impact libraries and information centers in the future. Technologies reviewed include slow-scan television, teleconferencing, and videodisc. Other papers…

This collection of papers includes both presentations at a two-day conference of the Education Advisory Council at Apple Computer which considered information and insights on the use of telecommunications and networking in education, and papers describing other telecommunications projects that have been identified since the council's meeting.…

This collection of papers addresses the impact of rapidly changing telecommunications technology on libraries. A brief introduction by James L. Divilbiss sets the stage for the following papers: (1) "Making Sense of New Technologies and New Legislation" (Joseph Ford); (2) "Selection and Use of Telecommunications Consultants for…

This report of a conference on the use of telephone technology in education includes 33 papers which deal with such areas as the use of the telephone in the administration of a telephone network or conference system, support services, program evaluation in telecommunication, program planning, teleconferencing, computer control of teleconferencing,…

This report contains a collection of papers presented at a workshop on telecommunications-based training systems as part of the DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) Action Line III, which addressed research in telecommunications for open and distance education. The following presentations are included: (1)…

An issue of growing importance in rural economic development is the role of telecommunications and information technologies. Looking prospectively at the rural economies of the 1990s and beyond, a conference of 25 participants from various fields of expertise met to address the issues of how rural America will be affected, both positively and…

Over 50 delegates from 32 states and 2 Canadian provinces attended this conference, during which 5 intensive working group sessions discussed, debated, and achieved agreement on a number of relevant issues concerning the role of educational telecomputing in school reform and restructuring. The conference proceedings begins with an overview of the…

The proceedings from six Public Service Satellite Consortium audioconferences conducted in 1988 provide information on preparing teachers and students for teaching and learning at a distance; costs and benefits of distance education; secrets to success and pitfalls to avoid; technological innovations; international trends; and methods for…

These proceedings contain 10 keynote papers and more than 100 papers from an international conference on the theme of developing distance education. The keynote papers are: (1) "Communications Technology" (Yoshia Abe); (2) "Continuing Education. New Needs and Challenges for Distance Studies" (Urban Dahllof); (3) "Distance…

The Pacific Telecommunications Council's 18th annual conference is presented in two volumes. The PTC'96 gathering focused on seven streams: socio-economic issues; regulatory, legal and political issues; business and finance solutions; country studies; education, training, and human resources; convergence and networks; and technologies and…

This PTC'97 volume contains papers presented at the 19th annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, "Pacific Connections: Policy and Technology in the Information Economy" (1997). Three super-session groupings--industry, policy, and technology--provide attendees with a conceptual foundation from which subsequent…