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EDINEB: Conference II, Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Administration
Informationsnetzwerke für Bildungsmedien in Europa (15-18 März 95, Berlin)
FLISH (Flexible Learning on the Information Superhighway) conference.
Open University, March 29-31 1995.
Third International World-Wide Web Conference (Technology, Tools, and Applications April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany). See e.g. the workshop Workshop H: Teaching and Training on the Web.
Distance Education and Technology. A Professional Development Opportunity for Distance Educators. May 1 - 3, 1995

Search the Web for Topics of Interest

Since many people are not aware that the Net (including the Web) can be searched in various ways, here is some encouragement: Note: you need a form supporting client for the following links!

W3 Search Engines at CUI University of Geneva. This is probably the World's most complete WWW search META page.
Be aware that some entries can be found only with some search engines.... e.g. try: Yahoo Search - The CUI W3 catalog - The GNA Meta-Library - The Jump Station.
Search Yahoo for "Education AND Technology" (300 items).
Search the CUI W3 catalog for "education" A direct request to the CUI WWW Catalog for "education" (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog?education).

Educational Technology

This is in principle the most important section, but practice decided otherwise for the moment (I hope!!). Every now and then I will try to "round up" a topic.

Index & Service Pages for Educational Technology

Instructional Technologies Page by the Department of Instructional Technologies San Francisco State University.
Instructional Technology Connections For Students and practitioners of Instructional Technology and Cognitive Science. In addition to locally produced resources, the URL contains over sixty primary links to web nodes, gopher servers, usenet interest groups, listserves and research facilities, all having to do with teaching and learning with technology. It is an ongoing project of the Instructional Technology department at the University of Colorado at Denver. A good alternative for this page.
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication, a non-profit national educational information system sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education, is up on World Wide Web! Are you a teacher, student, parent, or grandparent looking for educational information and resources? Are you interested in effective teaching strategies and family learning? We can offer you educational research and publications, professional development opportunities, up-to-date bibliographies, current research summaries, specialized searches, handy parenting tips, read-along stories for families, a valuable guide to educational resources on the internet, and much more!
Check us out! If you don't have access to the World Wide Web, then e-mail us or call us with your questions: Books and Publications: ericrcs@indiana.edu or 1-800-925-7853 Professional Development and Computer Searches: ericcs@indiana.edu or 1-800 579-4723 Submitting Publications: ericac@indiana.edu or 1-800-579-4723 Distance Education: disted@indiana.edu or 1-800-579-4723
See also WWW & Gopher Reference pages for education and Institutions: Academic - Educational Computing

The Web & writing WWW courseware

Since the Web is not particularly suited for interactive courseware, here is a way around: Multimedia World Wide Web PC: How to distribute interactive applications on the Internet. A page in the Multimedia Database - MMD (University of Trieste (IT).
A free tutorial generation program by David A. Wheeler is available named mklesson. This program takes as input a text file and generates a set of HTML files suitable for including in the World Wide Web (WWW). The source and user guide for mklesson are available.
Future html (and current bits of implemented html+) improves possibilities for WWW courseware. If you lack pointers on how to "html/cgi/etc", you can check our (not so great page) here.
A CGI-compliant Tutorial Gateway. by Neal M. Holtz, Carleton University, CAN
Contributions and the Workshop report of the Conference Workshop: Teaching & Learning with the Web at Proceedings of the WWW94 conference.
"Education" at the Conference Fall '94: MOSAIC AND THE WEB, (October 17-20, 1994 in Chicago).

Note, that almost any home page has pointers on clients, servers and on how to write WWW (html) pages. This is our page.

Check also the sub-page Education on the Internet.

Educational Software

Educational Software at the US Department of Education Gopher.
Libraries, Reference, & Education, a page from GNN.
Authorware FTP directory(Cath. Univ, Chile).A depository for Authorware (an authoring tool for the PC and the Mac) DLL's & other things, growing.
Authorware Gopher. A depository for Authorware (an authoring tool for the PC and the Mac) applications and related stuff.
Instructional Software for Downloading at the (IBM) IKE Kiosk.
Software Archive of ASK (Akademische Software Kooperation) FTP Archive, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Has lots of Academic Learning Software, also in English.
Software & Documentation Archive of ASK (Akademische Software Kooperation) Telnet connection: login=ask, password=ask.
Toolbook archive at switch (mirrored from ftp.cica.indiana.edu?, contains some demo programs).
See also your friendly ftp servers nearby, e.g. ../msdos/educatin (Simtel mirror directory I guess, at the nic.switch.ch ftp archive. )
AimTech Corporation's FTP archive (e.g. uploaded files for the IconAuthor multi-platform authoring tool, 14.4K line)

Educational Technology Journals

(Educom News Summary) Check the Educom home page for back issues.

Educational Technology Conferences

Open and Distance Learning Conference Abstracts

Programming, AI, Multimedia, Hypertext & other fun

This subsection will be unbundled when it grows.

AI FAQ index (AI FAQ's and AI Programming Languages).
Index to Multimedia Information Sources Very good! (put together by Simon Gibbs of the Objects Systems Group, CUI, University of Geneva)
Tecfa's Multimedia dump. (no good, simple FTP directory, stuff pulled from the Net)
Useful Information on Hypertext and Multimedia Systems by David Martland from Brunel University
Hypertext book: State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications by V. Balasubramanian, Rudgets University.

Publications On-line

Engines for Education by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary, The Institute for the Learning Sciences.

Research Projects

Please also consult directly the Institutions & People page.

The Gravigs project "... creating teaching materials on the use of computer graphics and scientific visualisation for the science, engineering and medicine higher education community".
Learning through Collaborative Visualization (The CoVis project at Northwestern University)
The Interact Project Home Page. Simulation and Hypertext based Learning Environments for Engineering
The Computer as Learning Partner (CLP) project CLP is an on-going educational research effort at the University of California at Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school science instruction.
The ACT Web page contains information about Intelligent Tutoring Systems at CMU.

Related Fields (index pages)

(how far should/can this grow??)

HCI Launching Pad A very good launching pad for Human Computer Interaction.
Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
American Psychological Society (APS)
Links to Psychology Departments (at
Hanover College Psychology Department).
Index of /pub/misc/virtual-worlds at ftp.luth.se (good ftp archive).
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library Social Sciences at the Coombsweb - Anu Social Sciences WWW Server.
(CogSci-94) The titles, authors, and abstracts of all the papers and talks to be presented at the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet (a Standford Departement of Psychology page. See also their page on Cog & Psy: Journals & Magazines

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