Network Applications for Education: Costs, Benefits and Demand

这项活动的目的是系统地检查教育、技术和财政领域，这些领域超越了学校目前非常有限的教育电信活动的边界，扩展到超视界网络应用。它的目的是影响NREN的规划和实验，从而产生有关成本、教育效益和需求的数据，从而影响公共和私营部门的投资决策。它的目的还在于使教育工作者就宽频网络应用的作用达成初步共识，这将超越目前可见的技术和教育方面的适度实验。项目成果包括三个文件。大约50至60页的主要文件包括一套实验设计和教育政策和决策者对其教育潜力的总结评估。三个设计，或多或少在教育上激进，技术上先进，财政上昂贵，旨在改善科学和数学教育；为学校改革构建新的选择。较短的二级文件描述了群组软件产品、信息服务和教育数据库的教育需求。最后一份文件描述了一些分配成本和为本地和广域网应用的教育用途融资的选择。计划以印刷和会议两种形式进行传播。

This activity aims at a systemic examination of the educational, technological and financial terrain that extends beyond the present very modest frontier of educational telecommunication activities by schools to over- the-horizon network applications. It aims at affecting NREN planning and experimentation, which should, in turn, produce data on costs, educational benefits and demand that can affect public and private sector investment decisions. It aims too at developing an initial consensus among educators on the role of wideband network applications that goes beyond the technologically and educationally modest experimentation presently visible. Project outcomes include three documents. The principal document of some 50 to 60 pages includes a suite of experimental designs and a summary assessment of their educational potential by educational policy and decision makers. Three designs, more and less educationally radical, technologically advanced and financially expensive are aimed at improving science and mathematics education; and structuring new options for school reform. A shorter secondary document describes educational needs for group software products, information services and educational databases. A final document describes some options for allocating costs and for financing educational use of local and wide-area network applications. Dissemination is planned in both print and conference formats.