Hi, Paul:
I have spent a little time going through the EVAT report and find it
interesting and potentially valuable to a wide audience.
Would you consider putting the entire report on the CD-ROM that will
accompany the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Education on the
application of information technologies to engineering and science
education? (We are treating the CD-ROM essentially as a WWW server, so the
mechanics of contributing should be fairly straightforward.) I have had an
inquiry from NSF about including a report of a workshop that they plan to
hold in December on "Impact of Information Technology on Teaching and
Learning," so there will likely be related material in the issue.
The special issue is being co-sponsored, so far, by the IEEE Computer
Society and ASME as well as the IEEE Education Society. Ken Laker (IEEE VP
for Educational Activities) and Bob Sullivan (Pres. of the IEEE Ed. Soc.)
are negotiating with other potential co-sponsors. The IEEE and the
co-sponsors seem especially interested in seeing how distributing a CD-ROM
with an archival journal can work and how it affects the basic publishing
functions of screening contributions, distributing contributions and
archiving contributions. In any case, it looks as though the special issue
stands to gain a much wider audience than a typical issue of the Trans. on
Ed.
The call for papers and detailed instructions for submission are on the
Web at:
http://www.coe.ttu.edu/ieee.htm
The due date is not a problem.
I hope that you will be interested in this possibility. Please let me
know if you have questions.
Thanks.
Marion
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We recently completed a study of opportunities for the use of
advanced technologies such as the World Wide Web in education. The
study was made by an ad hoc committee, appointed by Charles Vest,
President of MIT. The committee called itself EVAT, standing for
"Education Via Advanced Technologies." I served as chair of this
committee.
The final report of that committee was issued recently and you are
welcome to look at it. There are a number of recommendations for MIT,
that may or may not be appropriate for other colleges or universities.
The report does not exist in printed form; it consists of a hypertext
document on the Web at the URL http://www-evat.mit.edu/report/
...../Paul Penfield