As most of our readers know, July 7th is the date for the GLOSAS Global Lecture Hall (GLH) teleconference with Moscow. Why Moscow? Because the context for the teleconference is the First International Conference on Distance Education in Russia -- "DISTANCE LEARNING AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION" -- organized by the Association of International Education (AIE), which GLOSAS/USA helped to establish with the former Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technology Policy about a year ago. The conference will take place at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Russia, July 5-8, 1994.
In addition, some will remember that GLOSAS is currently involved in coordinating the establishment of an Electronic Distance Education System for Russia and the Ukraine in collaboration with Association of International Education (AIE), GU/Ukraine, the World Bank and a number of Russian and U.S. institutions of higher learning.
This issue includes two abstracts of papers which will be presented at the conference and which treat the subject of global electronic education. Both papers can be obtained by FTP at addresses shown below. Also included is a registration form for the teleconference.
The first of the two papers is co-authored by Dr. Alexander D. Ivannikov, Dr. David A. Johnson, Jim Miller and Dr. Takeshi Utsumi. The paper's subject is "The Global (electronic) University's Project to Compare and Evaluate Available Technologies: Learning Through Using". Dr. Utsumi is Chairman of GLOSAS/USA and President of Global (electronic) University; Mr. Miller is President of SYNECTICS Ltd., a system integration company; Dr. Ivannikov is First Vice President of the Association of International Education (AIE), General Director of the Information Systems Research Institute of Russia (ROSNIIIS), and Scientific Supervisor of Information Systems Research Institute of Russia; Dr. Johnson is former President of Fulbright Association.
In the words of Mr. John Southworth, an esteemed "global university" activist, the above paper is "very thoughtful and addressing alternatives that tend to be overlooked by those advocating THEIR system alone as compared to working toward the development of criteria to help judge (1) pros and cons of various modes/systems and (2) ranking of resource needs in relation to available systems."
The author of the second paper, "Education for All Through Electronic Distance Education", is Dr. Peter T. Knight, Chief, National Economic Management Division, Economic Development Institute, The World Bank. Dr. Knight and his Division at the World Bank are active supporters of GLOSAS Project EDES.
Last, but not least, a full length article by Mr. Glen Southworth of Colorado Video Inc. on the subject of "Still Picture Program Transmission Via Satellite", using television vertical blanking interval. It describes a series of tests carried out by CVI and SCOLA in 1993. Glen has contributed other articles to GLOSAS News in the past and his crisp prose is always a pleasure to read.
/pub/glosas/global-education/newsletter (for GN/GE)
/global-peace-gaming/newsletter (for GN/GPG)
/glh/reports-essays (for papers*)
/mmoa (for MMOA info)
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* Ivannikov, Johnson, Miller & Utsumi paper is file
Dr. Knight's paper is file
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June 1994
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.