Integrated services digital network (ISDN) is a dial-up digital transmission service supporting transmission of audio, video, and text data over standard copper telephone wires or fiber optic cables. Advantages of ISDN over analog transmission include the ability of one phone line to support up to three simultaneous, separate conversations (phone,…

Explores how computer-mediated systems may support the professional development of adults by providing environments which allow individual needs and purposes to be met and experience and understanding to be shared. Highlights include descriptions of JITOL (Just in Time Open Learning), a project which combines computer-mediated communications with…

Presents 20 networking etiquette guidelines taken from electronic and print sources. Highlights include focusing on one subject, condensing messages, editing quotes, spelling and grammar, typography, mistakes, acronyms, humor, researching discussion groups, intellectual property and copyright, manners, ethics, and damage. (AEF)

Explains the passing of the information age and discusses its successor and the paradigm for the immediate future; i.e., the communication age. The importance of the communication age to elementary and secondary education is outlined, and the emerging wide-bandwidth Internet technology is discussed. (Author/LRW)

Describes the growth of KIDLINK, a global classroom-based dialog of 10- to 15-year-old youth by means of electronic mail. Highlights include changes in the way the dialog itself has been structured and in the organization of volunteers who run the project, and future possibilities. (Author/LRW)

This lecture by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada addresses issues related to information technology and privacy, including privacy law, government role, surveillance techniques, and security measures to protect the privacy of electronic communications. The text of the question and answer period following the lecture is included. (MES)

Presents an overview and discusses the objectives of the "Blueprint for the Interactive Classroom" (BIC), a project, developed by the Audiovisuele (AV) Dienst of them Katholieke Universiteit (KU) of Leuven (Belgium), that will provide operational blueprints for installing and using tele-teaching classrooms and learning environments. (PEN)

Provides examples of four Daedalus Interchange transcripts from writing center staff meetings at Ball State University. Discusses goals for tutor training and rationale and benefits for choosing synchronous conferencing as a tutor-training technique. Presents survey results from tutors who participated in online tutor training, suggesting a…

Discusses the need for students to take more responsibility for their learning when learning at a distance. Topics include metacognition, student journals to record their study habits, and the need to form some type of collaborative study groups for online learners by using collaborative software environments. (LRW)

Defines and describes cyber-collaboration as the process by which disparate-appearing components wired to the Internet (e.g., libraries, publishers, bookstores) deliberately move beyond their boundaries and merge so that mutually beneficial improvements occur. Discusses technological juxtaposition, creative collaboration, and opportunities for…

Examines how persuasive appeals to women to go online have marginalized and excluded some women. Describes how these appeals contrast with the discourse of Web sites for young women, teens, and girls that provide noncommercial forums for social support, humor, self expression, and advice. Asserts that these forums "degender" the computer by…

Discusses theoretical and empirical research relevant to the use of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)--including including collaborative-learning research and computer-mediated communication research--using a descriptive model to categorize the literature. Shows how the model provides guidance in designing and utilizing CSCL…

Provides a starting point for critical exploration of African-American students' computer-based interaction. Analyzes how an African-American male student negotiates his multiple subjectivities in a largely White university setting and in a male-dominated society. Argues for accepting diverse and sometimes contradictory subject positions of all…

Urges professors to organize online courses in ways that prevent cheating and suggests such tactics as asking students for their sources of information, using a camera atop students' computers to send images, having exams monitored by a proctor, using the Internet to identify possible plagiarism, and getting to know individual students. (DB)

Examines the matter of authenticating distant student identities, and discusses several strategies including: proctored exams; digital signatures; getting to know the online student; and databases and online forums that yield student background information. (AEF)