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Foil 4 Challenge and Opportunity in Education and Training

From Tango for Distance Education and Training Today Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Pervasive Communication Infrastructure (The Internet) and powerful new software technologies and concepts
  • Distributed Multimedia information on the Web
  • Web-linked Databases, Distributed Objects
  • Collaborative Systems
2 Can enable education and training with
  • Better curricula
  • New collaborative learning models
  • Different "business models" for universities and schools
3 Can also change/enable businesses, research, electronic societies
4 Need to implement so that
  • Can take advantage of the evolving web
  • Can be used by all independent of capabilities

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