Three pilot projects tested the effectiveness of using PARTICIPATE software and computer conferencing to provide inservice training at a distance for vocational administrators. Participants said they would recommend the method; 73 percent said it enabled them to take courses they would otherwise have been unable to attend. (SK)

Surveyed 74 rural school administrators to determine perspectives concerning barriers and problems regarding the use of computer conferencing technologies. Found that computer conferencing use is minimal in schools and nonexistent among school administrators, but interest is high. Administrators agreed with more than half of the 11 barriers…

The Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education at Ohio State University was organized in 1978 for the purpose of developing high-quality curriculum materials for training leadership personnel in vocational and technical education in the United States, and to pilot test and demonstrate new instructional…

This paper reports on a computer conferencing pilot project initiated by the Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education and developed at the Center on Education and Training for Employment at Ohio State University. The report provides an introduction to computer conferencing and describes the stages of the…

This paper explores how educators are using multimedia for distance learning, beginning with definitions of the concepts of multimedia, hypermedia, hypertext, distance education and distance learning. Three types of telecommunications technologies are described: multimedia with broadcast television, multimedia with interactive video (television),…