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Foil 18 Education in a Box -- Initial Steps to Understand Web Based Education

From Web Technologies as a Revolution in Teaching at K-12 and University Level APS-AAPT Joint Meeting IBM Watson Research Center -- April 12-13 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Certificate in Computational Science offered at Harbin Institute of Technology (China) Spring 1996 -- started March 1,1996 -- is a prototype of Syracuse University extension school
Although Internet Connections to China are not guaranteed to be great(!) we can still use Web Technology but assume that Electronic Course material will be packaged at NPAC(SU) in a Pentium PC running WindowsNT and Java
  • Possibly Oracle and Digital Video Server Support as well
  • Possibly RealAudio or similar digital audio
This will be updated in batch mode by Syracuse -- China Connection
Students in China will Interact with mentors in China and with NPAC via Internet (web and email)
Project designed by Fox,Leskiw(NPAC), Xiaoming Li(Harbin and Peking visiting NPAC)


Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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