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Foil 22 Some Principles in Tango Support of Distance Education I

From Revised Version of Physics and Engineering Education and Outreach with Modern Information Technology HPCC Seminar Series at Penn State -- Jan 25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 One needs both asynchronous (self paced) and synchronous learning
2 Asynchronous learning implies that a Web server supplies data from a multimedia Web Site or a backend database
3 Synchronous learning implemented by sharing SOME but not all information (guided tour) from an asynchronous site and combining it with audio video conferencing, chat rooms, white boards etc.
4 Must support unstructured modest size data sets ( a "few" pages from a single instructor) of disparate type and
5 Large more uniform structured datasets such as collections of courses from a large institution.
6 Web Site is unstructured and web-linked database is structured

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