Following are three short articles each of which makes an original contribution towards our better understanding of telelearning. The first of these, by Gary Welz, looks into the future of scientific publishing and concludes, "We are entering the age of video email, video computer bulletin boards and ultimately video journals with the same degree of editorial quality control that now exists in print. ... Television will no longer be only a mass audience medium, instead, in a very short time, it will be the most common and the preferred form of scientific communication." The "article" is actually abstracted from the talk given at the Conference of the International Federation of Science Editors at Consorzio Mario Negri Sud in July, 1993. It is timely reading considering the two demonstrations of video by Internet which will be conducted during the GLH (see Part 1, above). Mr. Wetz is President of Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., a non-profit consortium of professional societies including the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Physical Society, the American Mathematical Society and others. It's purpose is to develop, produce and distribute scientific publications in the medium of television.
There follows Bill Dubie's account of telelearning by computer from the student's point of view. William Dubie is a graduate student in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research. A former teacher of English and technical writer, he is now a technical editor for Digital Equipment Corporation and an occasional Lecturer in Technical Communications at Northeastern University's School of Engineering.
Our third item is Glen Southworth's handy checklist of the do's and don'ts of international teleconferencing originally published (under a different title) in the International Teleconferencing Association booklet "Teleconferencing & the Classroom of the Future" prepared by the Distance Learning Special Interest Group. A member of GLOSAS, Glen is with the Colorado Video Inc., a pioneer in the field of slow-scan video. (Their equipment is often used during GLHs and will be used on August 21st.)
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July 1993
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