This issue is an exception. Our feature paper, "Objects, Agents and Events in a Global Learning Environment", is of such length that it leaves little room for other rubrics. Other submissions which I am pleased to have received will find their way into future editions of GN/GE.
The paper is an electronic collaboration between Dr. Takeshi "Tak" Utsumi, Chairman of GLOSAS, and Dr. Sam Lanfranco, associate professor of economics and coordinator of Distributed Knowledge Project (DKProj) at York University, Toronto. It will be presented at the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) conference TeleTeaching '93, "Learning and working independent of time and distance", Trondheim, Norway, August 20 - 25, 1993. (Incidentally, GLOSAS is planning a Global Lecture Hall (GLH) (TM) demonstration during the conference; details to appear in GN/GE III/3.)
I met Tak Utsumi in 1989. I was presenting a paper at the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) regional conference in Nagoya, Japan. Tak organized a slow scan (SSTV) teleconference between Wassily Leontief (Nobel laureate in economics) in New York and our little group in Nagoya. Later, over sashimi, Tak and I found that we shared an interest in educational telecommunications. I had just written an op-ed article on the subject of satellite videoconferencing and my conference paper dealt with global education by satellite. Though we have not met since, we remain in touch electronically. Indeed, Tak has been as close to me as my PC; we have shared volumes of information and worked on several common projects.
While presenting a paper electronically coauthored with Tak at a conference at York University in Toronto in 1991, I met Sam Lanfranco, the motive force behind the conference. Sam is an indefatigable proponent of educational uses of telecommunications. An interesting detail about the York conference was a direct link with Moscow via the Olympus satellite. GLOSAS used the same route during the Orlando videoconference of last October.
Sam has remained in touch and his introduction to GLOSAS has resulted in among other things his contribution to the enclosed paper. I am tremendously pleased to make public this exceptional paper by two such prominent spokesmen for universal access to global educational resources.
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June 1993
GLOSAS NEWS was orinally posted to the WWW at URL: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/cont.htm by Tina Evans Greenwood, Library Instruction Coordinator, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado 81301, e-mail: greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu, and last updated May 7, 1999. By her permission the whole Website has been archived here at the University of Tennessee server directory of GLOSAS Chair Dr. Takeshi Utsumi from July 10, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.