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Foil 25 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Education

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) CPS616 Spring 98 -- 21 January 98. by Geoffrey Fox


This is basis of Virtual University and NII can be expected to be much more succesful than videosystems because interactive, collaborative, explorative and full multimedia information at student and teachers fingertips
Base of Distance Education is InfoVision for full interactive curricula
  • Note hyperlinking is as important as multimedia as allows student controlled exploration in richer fashion than old fashioned sequential books
  • Geographic Information Systems allows the general virtual field trip
Rich Collaboration environments including televirtual MOO's for student-student and student-teacher interactions



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