UPFRONT - Fiber Network Consortia on the Increase

FOCUS - Four Lakes DE Network: A Window to the New Millennium by Don Holmen, Director

CORRECTION - Online Bachelor's in Nursing

LINES - July News Updates

WI - Register Online for GWETC 2000! UW Catalog of Distance Learning Receives Award; UW DE Clearinghouse Recognized by Research Journal

ED - Colleges Urged to Put Good Leaders, Not Technical Experts, in Charge of Technology; States and Universities Move To Integrate Teacher Education With the Classroom; Professors Profit From Practicing What They Teach; Home Schooling Online; Campuses Advance Internet2; Combating the Crisis in Scholarly Communication

BIZ/ED - IBM Blends Linux and Bluetooth; Apple Just Thinks Different; Motorola U; Allen Wooing Elite Colleges Online; High-tech Executives Urge Action on World's Digital Divide; Private Digital Divide Efforts Fall Short

e-GOVERNMENT - Senator Advocates Electronic Government

GLOBAL - India Distance Ed Meets Huge Demand; Asia Another Market for Distance Education

NEW TECH - Study Finds Web Bigger Than We Think; 3D Images You Can Step Into; Handhelds and Wireless

READS - The 2000-2001 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook; Web Wisdom

RESOURCES - PEW Issues New Monograph on Intellectual Property and Online Courses; New Government Portal for Employees Seeking Continuing Higher Education; New Higher Education News Service; Condition of Education Report

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FYI - News, Institutes, Conferences, Events

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ENDNOTE - Guy Bensusan - Senior Faculty Associate for Interactive Television, NAUNet, and Professor of Humanities & Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ:

To the Realist, the Optimist is an Idealist and the Pessimist is a Cynic.

To the Optimist, the Realist is a Pessimist and the Idealist is a Visionary.

The Pessimist believes he/she is the Realist and that all others are merely Innocent.

Considering where they're coming from, isn't each a reasonable appraisal?

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