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The growth of Internet commerce in online medicine, telecommuting, distance learning and video entertainment on demand depends on broadband Internet access, says economist James K. Glassman. But more than two-thirds of Internet users still use dial-up modems with top speeds of around 56 kilobits per second compared to broadband speeds of about 400 kilobits.
“The Soviet Union may have disappeared into history 10 years ago,” says Coit D. Blacker, deputy director of Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies, but “the damage inflicted upon the social sciences and humanities in Russia was profound.” Read the Full Story http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021801u.htm
The key may be a growing movement for peer review of Web sites and online teaching materials Read the Full Story http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i24/24a02501.htm
IO Technologies has developed a new online course sytem together with the Rochester Insitute of Technology. Read the Full Story http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/02/12.3.shtml
The cost of putting a child through university now adds up to £23,000 – and for parents looking to finance a private education the costs are even more startling. Read the Full Story http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/business/personalfinance/content.cfm?story=243083
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved limited use of a new technology that reportedly provides a faster and more secure way to send wireless transmissions. Read the Full Story hhttp://eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3531
A worldwide computing project known as grid, whose long-term vision is to bring the power of supercomputing to individuals, is taking a step out of the laboratory and into the commercial mainstream. Read the Full Story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/19GRID.html
The Chronicle’s list of best-selling software is based on a survey of 318 stores that are members of the National Association of College Stores. Fifty-one stores responded with sales statistics, and six others reported that they had sold no computer software. Read the Full Story http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021802t.htm
Two high-profile movements to harness the power of the global network of computers will start pooling their resources next week as academia’s “grid” computing initiative meets the Web services trend that’s sweeping business computing. Read the Full Story http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-839265.html
UNESCO has declared `education for all’ as a goal, and even thought it may take many decades to achievd that objective, much is now underway to accomplish it. The development for everyone in the world of adequate lifelong education needed for the information age requires large-scale research and experimentation of a scope–like that spent on […]