GLOSAS is planning to conduct a Global Lecture Hall (TM) teleconference in August 1993, during TeleTeaching '93 in Trondheim, Norway. The main purpose is to demonstrate compressed digital video technology which drastically reduces satellite transmission costs and therefore represents a major step towards global electronic distance education. As in the GLH from Orlando, Florida, last October, wide participation is expected from North and South America as well as Western and Eastern Europe, including Moscow.
GLOSAS/USA has recently received a request from the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technology Policy of the Russian Federation to jointly establish a U.S.-Russia electronic distance education system via various telecommunication media. Russian colleagues will establish an International Distance Education Network (IDENET) which will be administered by the Association of International Education, a consortium of prominent educational institutions in Russia. Dr. Tak(eshi) Utsumi, Chairman of GLOSAS/USA, has been busy trying to get this project off the ground by raising the necessary funds and forming a consortium of members of American educational institutions and industries. Some of the institutions contacted are National Technological University, University of Colorado, George Washington University, University of Hawaii, State University of New York, Columbia University, Tufts University and Brown University, as well as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and INTELSAT. The World Bank will support Russia's establishment of a media center and electronic distance education activities, the latter of which will include the establishment of IDENET. The Bank may also utilize the system not only for their dissemination of bank policies and staff training, but also for educating the Russian public and educational institutions on the so-called "missing culture" of market economy. Tak hopes this system will later become a Russian branch of Global (electronic) University of GLOSAS/USA. Tak has also received inquiries and proposals to join in this project from Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Middle East, making this an international project to help Russia. Those interested in participating should contact Tak Utsumi by phone at 718-939-0928 or email at utsumi@columbia.edu.
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March 1993
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