UPFRONT - GWETC 2000 Request for Proposals

FOCUS - Designing and Using Distance Learning Spaces by Bruce Dewey

REQUEST/ANSWERS - Costing International Distance Learning

UW NEWS - Collaboration in Web-based Learning, DNA Computer is Created and Does Complex Calculations, New TTT Issue

LINES - Compiled from News Releases and Listservs

POINT/COUNTERPOINT - On-line Learning: A Controversial Topic

ED - Technology Boosters Seek Better Teacher Training, Wired Classrooms Jot Down the Notes, Ethernet is Changing Dorm Life, Online: Indiana University High School, New Study Reveals Sharply Differing Patterns of Growth in Distance Learning at Public and Independent US Universities

BIZ/ED - Startup Plans Education Marketplace, Learning Mergers, The Shape of Training and Professional Development Predicted

FUNDS - Feds Earmark $12.5M to Bridge 'Digital Divide

TOOLS/TRENDS - MicroSoft's Cleartype, That's No Refrigerator; It's a Command Center, An e-Car Learning Experience

RESOURCES - ASTD's New Online Magazine, Math Goodies Receives A+ Rating

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Institutes, Conferences

In-Briefs and Updates

 

END NOTE - Quote for Today
"The cost of telecommunications will fall drastically and take us ever deeper and faster into BLUR."
(Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer, Blur: the Speed of Change in a Connected Economy)

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