UPFRONT - Interaction and Distance Learning

FOCUS - Interactivity in a Distance Learning Environment - Karen Mantyla of Quiet Power

UW NEWS - Brown Named Senior Consultant for Learning Technologies Research and Development, Web-based Research Tutorial Completed, Research Help Needed, UTLG Grants, TTT Special Issue

LINES - April News Highlights

ED - The New School, $5,000 Cash for IT Teachers, Four-Part Prediction Series (cont'd)

BIZ/ED - Masie Selected to Tour Dept. of Defense, Just-in-Time Learning, The Cenquest Way

FUNDS - FCC Allots $2.25 Billion to Wire Libraries and Schools

TOOLS AND NEW TECH - Opto-Chips to Increase DataSpeed, Internet2

TRENDS - New Study Provides Benchmarks for Quality Distance Education Resource: Useit.com

ISSUES - Traditional or Electronic Publishing? Reading Book Publishing's Future

READS - Report on Intellectual Property Rights In Academe, Recommended Reading, How to Be a Successful Distance Student

RESOURCES - MathGoodies Featured

POSITIONS - UW-Madison

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Institutes, Conferences, Events

TEXT - Print Newsletter as Text Only

In-Briefs and Updates

ENDNOTE - John Dewey

According to a recent article by Peshe Kuriloff, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, if John Dewey were alive today, he'd be a webhead. That is, in fact the title of the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 Apr 00. Dewey's dedication to experience is described...."Computer manufacturers and software developers are already following Dewey's lead. They don't even bother to provide detailed instructions for their products. We are supposed to learn by doing. If we get stuck and can't figure something out on our own, we can call for help. But the self-starters who persist and learn on their own quickly become tomorrow's technological elite."

(for the entire article in the Chronicle, see: http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i34/34a07201.htm)

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