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Misanchuk, Earl R. – 1989
A pilot project involved off-campus (distance education) students creating their assignments on Macintosh computers and "mailing" them electronically to a campus mainframe computer. The goal of the project was to determine what is necessary to implement and to evaluate the potential of computer communications for university-level…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Distance Education, Evaluation
Hecht, Jeffrey B. – 1989
This guide is intended as a brief orientation to the Bulletin Board System (BBS) used by the California Educational Research Cooperative (CERC) in a continuing effort to expand support services to its member districts and ancillary providers through operation of an electronic networking system. This facility provides a means through which…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Electronic Mail, Information Networks
Beals, Diane E. – 1990
Communication via computer networks is becoming more common each day. The differences between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication fall into three categories: (1) temporal factors (asynchronous versus synchronous); (2) spatial factors (geographical context and distance); and (3) social factors (participants, their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail
Helsing, Cheryl; And Others – 1989
Computers have changed the way information resources are handled. Large amounts of information are stored in one central place and can be accessed from remote locations. Users have a personal responsibility for the security of the system and the data stored in it. This document outlines the user's responsibilities and provides security and control…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Confidentiality, Databases
Schwartz, Jeffrey – 1986
A writing exchange project at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont, funded by Apple Education Foundation and McDonnell Douglas, examined what happened when high school students use word processors and a modem to write to distant audiences. In the first exchange, students interviewed each other in pairs and wrote short…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, High Schools
Drake, Miriam A. – Online, 1987
Describes Library 2000 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which provides remote electronic access to a catalog of more then 350,000 books and documents, as well as access to the indexes to four extensive periodical databases. (MES)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Databases, Futures (of Society)
Alley, Lee; Willits, Stephen D. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) promises to integrate voice, data, text, and video services within the context of existing telephone networks. It is a set of standards, or engineering design specifications, that will permit anyone to attach any innovative device to it as long as it abides by the network's protocols. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Computer Networks, Data Processing
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1987
The Computer Center at California State University, San Bernardino, provides centrally managed computing hardware and software to support both administrative users and academic programs. The center provides access to four computer systems which allow students a wide range of computing experiences. Instructional computing, administrative computing,…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Computers

Coombs, Norman R. – History Microcomputer Review, 1988
Discusses use of computer conferencing in history instruction at Rochester, New York Institute of Technology. Describes how students hand in papers and communicate with their blind professor using personal computers and modems to send and receive electronic mail on the mainframe. Examines student reactions to project and evaluates program in terms…
Descriptors: Blindness, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1998
The fifth session of IT@EDU98 consisted of four papers and was chaired by Nguyen Thanh Son (University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). "Distance Education at University of Hawaii" (David Lassner) investigates the technologies in use at the University of Hawaii, including: SkyBridge; HITS (Hawaii Interactive Television System);…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Galusha, Jill M. – 1998
The older adult (55+) population is becoming a significant presence in the personal computer market. Seniors have the discretionary income, experience, interest, and free time to make use of computers in interesting ways. A literature review found that older adults make use of computers in significant numbers: 30 percent of computer owners are…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs
Cain, Mark – 2000
There is a whole infrastructure that must support a successful universal student computing requirement. Conventional approaches would have the students plugging into a wired network. That would necessitate network wires and hubs or many ports in each classroom. Students would need access to course-related software. Because the needs would change…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1998
This document contains the enrollment application form and line-by-line instructions for subscribing to LincOn, a statewide network, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education, that allows public K-12 schools to access the Internet. An overview of LincOn and a checklist for implementing LincOn membership are also included. Appendices…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks
AEL, 2004
Grid computing allows large groups of computers (either in a lab, or remote and connected only by the Internet) to extend extra processing power to each individual computer to work on components of a complex request. Grid middleware, recognizing priorities set by systems administrators, allows the grid to identify and use this power without…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Computer System Design, Computer Networks
Martin, Andrea; Dean, Vicky – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1996
Discusses the management perspectives of the transition to distributed support services for information technology at Rice University (Texas), focusing on the implementation process, changes that were required in migrating from a strong centralized organization to a distributed model, and the challenges encountered in the implementation. (MDM)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computers, Decentralization, Higher Education