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Foil 35 Abstract of APS/AAPT Education Presentation

From Miscellaneous Presentation Material used in 1996 Research Presentations -- 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

This "version" of Education talk is organized around technologies with projects introduced to illustrate technology use
The technologies are text-indexed video, Perl, JavaScript, Java, VRML (in current and future 2.X version) and object databases
The World Wide Web offers the potential for revolutionary changes in education at all levels from K-12, undergraduate, graduate and continuing (lifelong) levels.
We describe these technologies in context of four significant activities where we/our collaboraters have used Web Technologies to prepare and deliver education using the web. These projects are the
  • Living SchoolBook -- 6 K-12 schools in New York State connected by the high-speed ATM network NYNET to HPCC resources at NPAC;
  • Undergraduate science education for non-science majors;
  • Graduate computer science courses both at Syracuse and remotely with students in China.



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