With workshops held in our training facility we know what type of computer hardware, software and network connection our students will have. For an electronic course an Internet connection will be required, but will we require students to have a graphical browser for the Web? This requirement could exclude some students from participation, but would greatly increase the functionality that we can make use of for the materials. Even with a graphical browser, some students may find limited network bandwidth does not provide a satisfactory learning environment.
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:ÒAs we do for participation in our traditional workshops, we will require a basic knowledge of UNIX. With workshops held in our training facility we know what type of computer hardware, software and network connection our students will have. For an electronic course an Internet connection will be required, but will we require students to have a graphical browser for the Web? This requirement could exclude some students from participation, but would greatly increase the functionality that we can make use of for the materials. Even with a graphical browser, some students may find limited network bandwidth does not provide a satisfactory learning environment.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