Highlights new developments in distance learning, including telecourses on audio and videocassettes, interactive videodiscs, teleconferencing via satellite, Instructional Television Fixed Service, digital compressed video, and correspondence courses via electronic mail. (DMM)

A program in a special school provides 60 deaf students (ages 9-19) with microcomputer access for three to four hours per week. The microcomputer is being used to develop student writing skills (creating, editing, refining), to publish a desktop school newsletter, and to participate in a telecommunications network. (DB)

Reports on the American Association of Community and Junior College's (AACJC's) electronic network for two-year colleges, ACCESS (AACJC Computer Communications/Educational Services System), which allows users to send mail, documents, data, and other information via computer. Explains how to gain access to the system. (DMM)

Describes a field test conducted by the North Carolina Office of Day Care Services to examine the relative merits of telecommunications and traditional training in a realistic setting. Compares costs, time needed for training, and trainees' attitudes. Also discusses location of teleconference centers, content development, frequency of delivery,…

Precise educational specifications are necessary to ensure optimum use of computers for administration and instruction. Site selection and preparation requirements for a Local Area Network (LAN) are provided along with requirements for the selection and installation of a telecommunication system. (MLF)

Reviews the conception and services of ALANET, American Library Association's (ALA) electronic information service designed to create an electronic mail system and develop a wide-ranging information service to improve access to information resources of ALA. External databases, professional information services, communications networks, assisting…

Concentrating on those units most suited to home microcomputer users, this article discusses modem functions, varieties, basic features, and automatic features; lists manufacturers of telecommunications hardware; and provides a modem comparison chart which includes information on price, configuration, line connection, interface, baud rate,…

Addresses concept of automated library systems as integration of traditional bibliographic transaction processing applications and advanced office systems. Functional application distribution for this system is discussed using Computer Consoles, Inc., Office Power and Prime Computer, Inc., and Prime Office Automation System to show office…

Compares two online information services on basis of target audience, communication services, news and publications, business and financial features, education-related features, online publication and information, personal service features, travel offerings, remote computing services, other facilities, navigating through utility, online storage…

Cornell University is installing a high-speed telecommunication system that will link campus telephones and computers with the outside world. Voice communication, computer data, and video images will travel through a university-owned multipurpose system. (MLF)

Contends that a telecommunication approach to the broadcasting curriculum helps schools keep abreast of changing technologies, new research approaches, and students' professional needs. (PD)

Reports on Japan's University of the Air (UA), a broadcast, distance education venture empowered to grant bachelor of liberal arts degrees in several curriculum areas. Discusses the project's background, the state of telecommunications in Japan, UA curricula and goals, and possible problems. (LAL)

Describes a 10-city satellite teleconference, "If Not Us, Who?" produced by the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the Community Telecommunications Development Foundation. Issues discussed included redirecting gang violence into more productive activities, funding mechanisms for solving neighborhood problems, and strategies for…

An Apple microcomputer at a Chicago library is used by people in all areas of Chicago as a community bulletin board. The development and implementation of this telecommunications system is described. A list of guidelines governing the role of a microcomputer in a public library is also provided. (JN)

Provides detailed description of New York University's (NYU) Bobst Library Local Area Network (LAN), which was designed and implemented by Geac Computers International technical personnel and NYU library systems staff. Definitions of terminology, why the library installed a LAN, planning, network installation, and the LAN configuration and…