While we may now be able to directly impact a broader group of people, this group will likely be much more diverse in its background and computing experience. Will we want to set up individual computer accounts for this larger group on our system? Will we provide support for these people through our consulting phone and e-mail service? Should we instead look at a method to provide hands-on experience through a more generic method? Certainly there will be a number of security issues and the necessity for fire walls to protect our production computing environments if we wish to accommodate this larger audience.
Predictor: Dwyer, Dan
Prediction, in context:Dan Dwyer, Kathy Barbieri and Helen M. Doerr of the Cornell Theory Center, a national center for high-performance computing, presented research titled ÒCreating a Virtual Classroom for Interactive Education on the Web,Ó in which they discuss new opportunities for distance education over the Internet, at the third annual WWW Conference in 1995. They write:ÒWith an electronic course, the size of the class will be limited by other non-physical factors such as staffing requirements for account administration, limited consulting support, and CPU resources required for the class laboratory exercises. While we may now be able to directly impact a broader group of people, this group will likely be much more diverse in its background and computing experience. Will we want to set up individual computer accounts for this larger group on our system? Will we provide support for these people through our consulting phone and e-mail service? Should we instead look at a method to provide hands-on experience through a more generic method? Certainly there will be a number of security issues and the necessity for fire walls to protect our production computing environments if we wish to accommodate this larger audience.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: WWW Conference '95
Title, headline, chapter name: Creating a Virtual Classroom for Interactive Education on the Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.igd.fhg.de/archive/1995_www95/proceedings/papers/62/ctc.virtual.class/ctc.virtual.class.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne