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1 online resource (xxii, 114 pages) : illustrations |
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PREFACE -- FIGURES -- SUMMARY -- IMPROVING THE CREATION OF INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING MATERIALS -- CREATING EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES -- COMPETING WITH NEW PROVIDERS -- ADDRESSING POLICY ISSUES AND PLANNING -- How Will Higher Education Acquire Sufficient Internet Infrastructure? -- How Will Higher Education Acquire Quality Courseware and Educate Staff? -- How Will Higher Education Choose Among Many Models for Using the Internet and Web? -- CONCLUSION -- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- A QUALIFIED VISION |
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Qualifications on the Vision: Why the Road to Revolution Might Be RockyTHE PLAN -- BENEFITS FOR LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION DELIVERY -- REDUCING COSTS AND INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY -- CAI and CBT -- Distance Learning -- Internet Impact: Distance Learning, Cost Reduction, and Increased Access -- Reflection: The Death of Distance As a Barrier to Learning -- INCREASING QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY -- CAI and CBT -- Intelligent Tutoring Systems -- Interactive Learning Environments |
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Internet Impact: Turning Expensive Stand-Alone Systems into Cheaper Distance- Learning TechnologiesReflection: Many Interesting Options, Many Hard Choices -- IMPROVING THE CREATION OF INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING MATERIALS -- EXPANDING TRADITIONAL METHODS OF PRODUCTION -- DIGITAL LIBRARIES: NEW MEDIA, NEW SERVICES, NEW INSTITUTIONS -- Tools to Find and Organize Information -- Aggregating Single Libraries into Mega-Libraries -- Obstacles to Building Productive Digital Libraries -- DIGITAL PUBLISHERS: JUMPING INTO THE FUTURE OR HOLDING ONTO THE PAST? |
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INTERNET IMPACT: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO CREATE NEW INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING MATERIALSChallenges to Building Productive Individual Publishing Communities in Higher Education -- REFLECTION: MANY INTERESTING OPTIONS, MANY HARD CHOICES� A REPRISE -- CREATING CONNECTED EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES -- BIOMEDNET: AN EXAMPLE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES -- VIRTUAL UNIVERSITIES: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES? -- Athena -- GNA -- REFLECTION: NETWORKED COMMUNITIES AND HIGHER- EDUCATION GOALS -- COMPETING WITH NEW EXTERNAL PROVIDERS OF EDUCATION -- WHAT ARE EXTERNAL PROVIDERS? |
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MICROSOFT TAKES OVERTRAINING MODEL VERSUS HIGHER-EDUCATION MODEL -- REFLECTION: HIGHER EDUCATION, EXTERNAL PROVIDERS, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY� FLIGHT, FIGHT, OR FRIENDS? -- Flight -- Fight -- Friends -- ADDRESSING PLANNING AND POLICY: HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THE INTERNET AND WWW IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- REALITY CHECK: WHAT REALLY WORKS NOW AND WHAT WILL WORK IN THE FUTURE -- What Works in Business -- What Higher Education Can Learn from Business -- POLICY ISSUES BYPASSED AND THOSE DISCUSSED |
| Summary |
This report analyzes the role of the emerging global information infrastructure in helping higher-education institutions to improve learning and teaching, improve the creation of instructional and learning materials, create educational communities, compete with new providers, and address policy and planning issues. The authors recommend that institutions coordinate technology plans and purchases; unite behind a common vision to influence the political debate; and pursue options for inexpensive end-user machines. They argue that acquiring the tools and skills with which to create Web-based distance-learning courseware can be accomplished within existing budgets if colleges and universities use existing tools and training; shift staff time from teaching to creating software; nourish grassroots publication; and examine alternative models for delivering educational services, such as creating ultrashort courses for use on an as-needed basis. They warn, however, that the effective use of technologies may threaten the current structure of higher education more than just streamline it |
| Notes |
"RAND Education." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114) |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Computer network resources
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Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States
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Telecommunication in higher education -- United States
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Internet in education.
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World Wide Web.
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Educational innovations -- United States
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World Wide Web.
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Education, Higher -- Computer network resources.
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Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Educational innovations.
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Internet in education.
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Telecommunication in higher education.
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World Wide Web.
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United States.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Matthew W
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California Education Roundtable.
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Rand Education (Institute)
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Rand Corporation.
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| LC no. |
98003968 |
| ISBN |
9780833043313 |
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0833043315 |
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9780833026170 |
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0833026178 |
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