Discusses Canada's evolving university-industry relationship, reviewing the need for increased industrial funding of universities and for capable graduates. Academic and industrial research overlap; therefore, for Canada to be a competitive industrial country, various vehicles must exist to bring together working scientists and engineers from…

California high school teachers completed surveys about computer use in their schools and problems in realizing technology's full potential for education. Results indicate computer use is uneven, computers are scarce, certain departments use computers more than others, and very little of computer technology's potential is realized in mainstream…

Discusses the problem of how to amass and organize large volumes of global change research data. Public policy issues relating to U.S. data and information management, technological challenges, proposed digital data generation and collection activities, and other data management activities are covered. (58 references) (KRN)

Discusses access to information technology and technological change; examines the culture that has grown up around computers; discusses previous military funding of academic computing and the need to change focus; describes the use of computers to promote equity and access; and considers the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic…

Questions the wisdom of permitting visions of the electronic library to drive budgets and strategic planning. Social and economic realities limiting user access to information, new roles for librarians, and models that guide management of information resources and services by real librarians for real users are discussed. A proposed action agenda…

Contains part of a speech given at the workshop "Student Access to New Information Technology in the Library Media Center." Suggestions for technological change are offered, including carrying out existing functions more effectively, changing work roles and organizational structure, developing new functions, and goals; and implications…

Discusses the impact of advances in information technology on library school curriculum. Topics addressed include a history of information technology in library schools; the rate of technological change; education versus training; information studies versus computer science; future possibilities; and the relationship between practitioners and…

Population revisionists are cited as people who do not believe that global population growth is a problem. This paper presents a small sampling of responses to revisionist books and articles, primarily focused on perceived technical problems in the revisionist position as identified by demography, economics, and hard science specialists. Includes…

Discusses the impact of technology on the profession of librarianship and suggests changes that are necessary for librarians to adapt to their changing role. Topics addressed include focusing on the mission of librarianship, i.e., providing access to information; librarians' sense of self-worth; educational requirements; and technological…

Four students with profound multiple disabilities were taught to use a microswitch communication system to request a change in recreational stimuli during social interactions with nondisabled peers. Outcomes are discussed in terms of the effects of controlling stimulus presentation on student behavior and the stability of preference hierarchies…

Provides an overview of the current and future educational technology marketplace, which is considered a fertile area for financial investment. Growth factors, the emerging mainstream role of technology, and the K-12, home education, and adult education market segments are described. Current and future levels of spending for educational technology…

Argues that videodisc and CD-ROM technology can provide opportunities for cross-cultural contacts and language development in social studies classrooms. Describes how new technologies are suited best for new teaching styles. Includes recommended videodisc and CD-ROM programs, hardware components, and offers a list of resources. (CFR)

Reviews educational reforms of the past 10 years as they relate to visual arts education. Finds that progress has been made in the development of theoretical rationales for art education and in assessing teacher performance. Also finds that little progress has been made in evaluating student learning and performance. (CFR)

Describes the technical, economic, social, and cultural challenges to building a national digital library system. Selecting and filtering information, building and scaling distributed digital library networks, invoicing, payment, authorizing access, the locus of planning leadership, and the information poor are discussed. (Contains three…

College administrators are offered a series of questions to ask in evaluating the appropriateness of information technology for their campuses. Issues addressed include defining institutional goals and the role of information technology in them, determining the most effective organization of information resources and technology, and allocation of…