Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9911281229150.25216-100000@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:29:47 +0100 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <mailto:tripathi@STATISTIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE> Subject: Learning Communications and Information Technology To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Dear DEVEL-L Lists, Greetings from Germany,In the current of Educom Review, November/December 1999..there are important and worthwile articles have been published.
Reed Hundt is a senior adviser on communications and technology to McKinsey a& Company, worldwide management consulting form wrote the paper ON *The Telecom Act, the Internet, and Higher Education* --Why he said, "The Internet is the biggest threat to the system if higher education in this century"..to read more, please visit <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9963.html>
Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, is Chief Information Officer at the University of Michigan <http://www.cio.umich.edu> has written a paper ON *Scaling up IT: Weighing the Options, Maintaining the Balance* In her paper, she discussed about *The mountainous task of integrating information technology within an institution..* <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9964.html>
Prof. Peter Lyman, Associate Dean at the School of Information Management and systems of University of California, Berkeley <http://sims.berkeley.edu/~plyman> has written an article ON *What Should We Call the Net?* He has discussed about three kind of metaphors, by that political discourse about the Internet is dominated...they serve as competing visions of role of technology in the information society. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9965.html>
Dr. William Graves, Chairman and Founder of Eduprise.com <http://www.eduprise.com> has described the IMS Project and its concept in his article ON *The Instructional Management Systems Co-operative: Converting Random Acts Progerss into Global Progress* <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9966.html>
Educom Review has interviewed Mike Fitzgerald ON *Toward a Model of Distributed Learning* --"Education isn't something that happens to you, it's something you do"..Mike Fitzgerald is well known, one of the United Kingdom's leading strategic thinkers on the emerging knowledge society. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9967.html>
Carole A. Barone and Mark A. Luker have written an article ON *The Role of Advanced Networks in the Education of the future* --The authors have discussed about, the role of advanced internet in high-quality education, network requirements for distributed learning, social and cultural issues, the future internet, etc.. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9968.html>
Let us explore the challenging ways of Learning Technology!
Sincerely Arun Tripathi WAOE Multilingual Coordinator