DEOSNEWS Vol. 2  No. 18.
Copyright 1992 DEOS - The Distance Education Online Symposium.
   
Editor: Morten Flate Paulsen, MFP101@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Review: Kenneth W. Borland
   
DEOS was established with a grant from the Annenberg/CPB Project.
   
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ADDENDUM TO DEOSNEWS VOL. 2 NO. 17
   
by Gerald Santoro
   
In my review of the Rosalie Wells monograph "Computer-Mediated Communica-
tion for Distance Education: An International Review of Design, Teaching
and Institutional Issues," I had neglected to provide extremely important
information regarding the author and I also used Ms. instead of the more
appropriate Dr.
     Dr. Wells is Distance Education Specialist at the Centre for Distance
Education at Athabasca University. Her work involves: consulting with
faculty on CMC course design and teaching; authoring training manuals for
faculty and students in the pedagogy of CMC; providing input to administra-
tors regarding the institutional impacts of CMC on Athabasca's resources
and current models of course delivery. She may be contacted at Athabasca
University, PO Box 10,000, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada T0G 2R0. Her Internet
address is rosaliew@cs.athabascau.ca.
   
   
EDITORIAL
   
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a
multinational federation of professional and technical organizations
concerned with information processing. Its goal is to disseminate informa-
tion and knowledge about information processing. IFIP has several Technical
Committees (TCs) and one of them, TC3, is concerned with education. The
Working Groups (WG) in TC3 are:
   
WG 3.1  Informatics Education at the Secondary Education Level
WG 3.2  Informatics Education at the University Level
WG 3.3  Research on Education Applications of Information Technologies
WG 3.4  Vocational Education and Training
WG 3.5  Informatics in Elementary Education
WG 3.6  Distance Learning
   
     WG 3.6 organizes the international TeleTeaching conferences. This
editor attended the first TeleTeaching conference in Budapest, Hungary, in
1986, but missed the second conference held in Sydney, Australia, in 1990.
The third conference, TeleTeaching 93 will be arranged in Trondheim,
Norway.
     The IFIP Newsletter is published on a quarterly basis and  anyone
applying to the IFIP Secretariat for a copy may receive one gratis.
Interested parties are also placed upon the newsletter mailing list gratis
upon request. The Newsletter Editor is Dr. Jack L. Rosenfeld of the United
States.
     This issue of DEOSNEWS interviews Asbjoern Rolstadaas, the IFIP Presi-
dent, and Jan Wibe, Chairman of the TeleTeaching 93 International Program
Committee. Finally, the TeleTeaching 93 call for papers and contributions
is included.
   
   
               Speaking Personally with Asbjoern Rolstadaas
   
Morten Flate Paulsen: Can you give us some further information about IFIP?
   
Asbjoern Rolstadaas: IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO.
IFIP is dedicated to improving worldwide communication and to increasing
understanding among practitioners of all nations about the role information
processing, or informatics, can play in all walks of life. Members of IFIP
are national organizations in the field of information processing. At the
heart of IFIP activities is the technical work managed by a series of
Technical Committees (TCs). Each Technical Committee has a particular
focus; education is the focus of Technical Committee 3. Technical work
within the focus of a Technical Committee is done in Working Groups (WGs)
of specialists who are individually appointed by their peers, independent
of nationality. IFIP and its Working Groups may be reached through:
   
The IFIP Secretariat,
16 Place Longemalle,
CH-1204 Geneva,
Switzerland.
Tel: 41 (22) 282649,
fax: 41 (22) 7812322,
E-mail: ifip@cgeuge51
   
MFP: Who are the IFIP members?
   
AR: IFIP has 49 full members, that is, national and regional information
processing associations. In addition, there are 8 affiliate member organiz-
ations. The member associations represent 47 countries.
   
MFP: Should distance educators consider joining IFIP? If so, why?
   
There are at least three reasons for distance educators to join IFIP.
First, IFIP offers access to a valuable international network of experts
and practitioners. Second, IFIP has been very active in the field of
telecommunication, especially via TC6, Digital Communication. Third, TC3
has several working groups dealing with education and information process-
ing. Summing up, distance educators can take part in IFIP conferences and
workshops and further represent member organizations in the relevant
Technical Committees and Working Groups.
   
   
                     Speaking Personally with Jan Wibe
   
Morten Flate Paulsen: What did you learn from TeleTeaching 90?
   
Jan Wibe: In 1990, the IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education
(WCCE'90) was arranged in Sydney, Australia. As part of the program, a one
and a half day miniconference was held on teleteaching: TeleTeaching 90
(TT'90). The program of TT'90 was put together by Gordon Davies, Open
University, UK and Jan Wibe, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway. In
the Australian Program Committee of WCCE'90 Malcolm Beazley from Sydney,
Australia, took responsibility for TT'90. The chairman of the WCCE'90
Program Committee, Sandra Wills from Australia also played an active and
constructive role in the preparations for TT'90.
     The program consisted of a keynote speech by Norman Longworth (UK),
sessions with invited speakers, paper sessions, panel sessions, and a
video-conference between pupils in Trondheim, Norway, and participants at
the conference in Sydney.
     This video-conference was based on several months of work which had
been done by some schools from all over the world connected in an e-mail
network. They had collected and exchanged data about acid rain. The aim of
the work was summarised in the slogan: "The Global Environment, our Common
Concern". During the conference in Sydney, children from Sydney analyzed
the data with tailor-made software for visitors to the conference. It all
ended up with a planned video conference between Sydney and Trondheim.
Because of line problems in Germany, this video-conference was reduced to
15 minutes, but at least we had a connection.
     All the paper and panel sessions demonstrated that different services
in telecommunications are widely used both in ordinary and distance educa-
tion. Time is ripe for a world conference on all the different aspects of
teleteaching as outlined in the topics for Teleteaching 93. It also
demonstrated that teleteaching projects are very good ways to show how the
technology may be used in an meaningful way. Our aim is to establish such
projects on a broader basis than during TT'90. These projects will be for
both education in schools and discussion forums about distance learning.
   
MFP: Who are the invited Keynote speakers for TeleTeaching 93?
   
JW: Dr. Iam Chaya-Ngam, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand,
will discuss "The Use of Teleteaching Methods for the Development of
Competence in Developing Countries: Philosophy, Actions and Experiences".
     Dr. Jacques Perriault, Ministre de L'education Nationale, of France,
will give a presentation titled "How to Face Changing Training Needs: A
Challenge for Distance Learning".
     Dr. Tony Bates from the Open Learning Agency in British Colombia,
Canada will discuss "Educational Aspects of the Telecommunications Revol-
utions".
     Mr. Luis Rosello, Head of the DELTA (Developing European Learning
through Technological Advance) unit, will present "Existing and Future
Technology for Teleteaching".
     Dr. Barry Arnett, IBM Thornwood, USA will talk about "Future Work-
stations".
   
MFP: How many participants have you calculated for in the budget?
   
JW: The budget balances at 945 participants, but we hope for 1500. The
responses up till now justify our hope.
   
MFP: So, how would you describe the interest for the conference so far?
   
JW: The interest has been encouraging. We have, up till now, received 200
answers by letter to the Call for Papers. 165 persons want to submit a
paper, 30 want to present a poster, 73 want to participate in a "Tele-
teaching project", and 21 would like to have a booth at the exhibition. If
we are looking upon the geographical distribution of the persons who want
to submit a paper, 39 come from USA, 16 from UK, 16 from Australia, 13 from
France, and 9 from Germany. These are on the top of the list. In addition
we have received--to the conference mailbox, teleteach@avh.unit.no--around
50 requests for various purposes . Now we are waiting for the papers to be
sent to the secretariat before the dead line, October 10th.
   
MFP: The call for papers says that postgraduate students in the field of
teleteaching can get a reduced fee. What are the fees?
   
JW: The normal fee is USD 275 before March 30, 1993, and USD 350 after that
date. The students fee is USD 175.
   
MFP: Can you please give us some more information about the teleteaching
projects and the demonstrations?
   
JW: One of our experiences from TT'90, was that a "teleteaching project" is
a good way to demonstrate the use of telecommunication in education. The
project must go on in a period before the conference and the results of the
project must be demonstrated during the conference. We are now planning
similar projects connected with TT'93. These projects will be advertised in
the program and most of them will be open for participation. We will try to
cover a wide area of applications from datacommunication, software,
databases etc., but most of the projects will be using electronic mail
because it is most widely used. For the moment we are in the planning
stage, so we can't offer you any concrete projects in which to participate.
For the schools around the world, we will establish projects like the one
in TT'90 about the global and local environment. For the professionals in
distance education, we will try to establish electronic discussion forums.
But we are also open for cooperation with ongoing projects. Please contact
the conference secretariat if you are interested in participating in a
teleteaching project or if you want to have your ongoing project connected
to and presented during the conference. A teleteaching project is one way
to demonstrate the use of telecommunication. We will also set up demonstra-
tions during the conference, not for the sake of technology in itself, but
as examples of the pedagogical use of it in ongoing projects. For the
moment, we have received ideas of videoconferences which we will try to
establish. But we are also open for ideas for demonstrations from the
readers of DEOSNEWS. Please contact the conference secretariat!
   
MFP: How can a conference like TeleTeaching be sponsored?
   
JW: IFIP is the main sponsor of the conference and the Norwegian Telecom is
the main financial supporter. In addition to these organizations, the
sponsors include the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE),
UNESCO, Comett, and the Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research, and
Church Affairs. We are still working to get more organizations as sponsors
for the conference.
   
MFP: Is there anything you would like to add?
   
JW: The name of the conference is Teleteaching 93. It gives the impression
that the conference is only about educational matters. That is wrong. Read
carefully the subtitle of the conference: Learning and working independent
of time and distance. The working part of it is very important. I suppose
that most of the readers of DEOSNEWS are used to distance working using
electronic media in the process. This aspect of the conference is important
to us and we really hope we will get many papers that focus upon the
working part of it.
     At last, I wish you welcome to Trondheim in August 1993. And I hope
that you will make contributions to the conference in your field of
expertise. The fact that you are reading this electronic journal, shows
that you are regular users of the media we are going to demonstrate in the
conference.
   
   
   
                     Call for Papers and Contributions
   
         TeleTeaching 93: International Conference and Exhibition
                             Trondheim, Norway
                           August 20 - 25, 1993
   
           Learning and working independent of time and distance
   
   
Welcome to TeleTeaching 93 in Trondheim, Norway, August 20 - 25, 1993
   
   
TELETEACHING 93
     The main theme of TeleTeaching 93 is the development and application
of telecommunication techniques to enhance human knowledge and skills. The
areas of application include education at primary, secondary and university
levels, as well as training in various situations, particularly the
workplace.
     The conference will be a forum  for  educators, politicians, managers
of human resources and experts in the many technical fields of tele-
teaching.  What technology can do now and what it promises for the future
are two aspects to consider. Experts are welcome to discuss the development
of all techniques used in teleteaching, particularly purpose-built equip-
ment, software, transmission and management systems. Educators will discuss
how they have implemented new techniques, both successfully and unsuccess-
fully, in order to meet the learning needs of society. We hope that the
discussions between politicians, managers, educators and technical experts
will help to reduce the gap between teaching and learning requirements on
the one hand and technical solutions on the other.
     Technology is a tool to assist in the development of society. What are
our goals and visions for the next century?  The technology to be used will
depend on the social and technical infrastructure in society. At Tele-
Teaching 93 we will discuss the consequences of implementing various
techniques in society at different economic, technological and social
levels.
   
The participants at TeleTeaching 93 will:
-       present the current state of the development in
        telecommunications used in education, training and
        distance working
-       demonstrate successful applications from different
        institutions and countries
-       debate the impact upon society of the new technologies
-       inform about initiatives, plans, support, regulations etc.
        by international organizations, governments and regional
        authorities
-       define the subject of teleteaching as one of the most
        important in education and training
-       debate the potential of distance working
-       discuss what is needed and what is possible.
   
   
PARTICIPANTS
     We welcome participants and contributors from:
-       Industry and business:
        *       Management
        *       Education and training
        *       Research and development
        *       Multi-national companies as well as small and
                medium size enterprises
   
-       Educational sector
        *       Primary school to university
        *       Distance education
        *       Open learning
   
-       Public sector
        *       Decision makers
        *       Politicians
        *       Administration
   
     Post graduate students in the field of teleteaching are especially
welcome. There will be a reduced fee for students.
   
   
TOPICS:
     The programme will be organized in sessions on the following main
topics:
   
1.      Educational aspects
        *       Student and teacher relations
        *       Teaching and learning methods
        *       The workplace of the learner and teacher
        *       Design of educational programmes
        *       Research on use of new technology in
                teleteaching
   
2.      Social Aspects
        *       Effects on human beings
        *       Effects on human relations in society and companies
        *       Political aspects
        *       Infrastructure in society
        *       Cost-benefit analyses and considerations
        *       Technology adaptation
   
3.      Distance working
        *       Design and operation of the workplace
        *       Organizational challenges
        *       Effects on society
        *       Applications
   
4.      Technology
        *       State of the Art
        *       Existing solutions
        *       User experiences and needs
        *       New concepts
        *       Research and development.
   
        The following technologies are included in TeleTeaching 93:
        - Radio and TV broadcasting
        - Telecommunications
        - Computer Networks
        - Storage and retrieval
        - Workstations
        - Software and learning materials.
   
5.      Case presentations
        Please present all aspects of your case; the technology used,
 organization, pedagogical methods, learning effects, costs etc.
   
   
INVITED SPEAKERS:
     Keynote speakers will be invited on the main topics of the conference.
   
   
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE:
     The conference language is English. No translation services will be
available.
   
   
HOW TO SUBMIT SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS
     Six (6) copies of a  one page abstract should be sent to the Tele-
Teaching 93 Secretariat no later than October 10, 1992. Please indicate the
main topic of your contribution. The proposals will be judged for relevance
and clarity and will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Short
contributions will be selected for a 10 minute oral presentation and/or a
poster presentation.
   
   
HOW TO SUBMIT PAPERS
     Six (6) copies of the full paper should be received by the Conference
Secretariat no later than October 10, 1992. Papers must be written in
English. Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including tables,
diagrams and pictures. Please state full title, name and affiliation of
author(s) as well as postal and electronic mail addresses, and telephone
and fax numbers. A one page abstract must be included. Please indicate
which topic you feel your paper should be presented under.
     All papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Relevance,
originality, and clarity will be considered. All authors must state that
their paper has not been submitted elsewhere. Acceptance of a paper implies
a commitment on the part of the author(s) to present it at TeleTeaching 93.
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings.
   
   
DEMONSTRATIONS
     It will be possible to give a demonstration during TeleTeaching 93.
Projects, equipment, software etc. can be demonstrated. Completed or
ongoing distance learning or working projects are particulary welcome.
Please contact the Conference Secretariat if you want to present a demon-
stration. Please submit a description of your project or product.
   
   
PRE AND POST CONFERENCE MEETINGS
     The conference site has excellent facilities for pre- and post-
conference meetings, or smaller meetings during the conference. Tele-
Teaching 93 will be an opportunity for organizations, user groups, so-
cieties, companies etc. to meet. Please contact the Conference Secretariat
for reservations. If you like, information about such events will be
included in the preliminary programme and registration form.
   
   
ASSOCIATED MINICONFERENCES
   
Computer Pals Across the World's International Teleteaching Conference,
1993, August, 18-19, 1993, Trondheim, Norway
   
Theme: Teaching and Learning in a global network
   
The Norwegian Educational Computer Association (NPD) will be the host
organization which will cooperate with Computer Pals Across the World
(CPAW).
   
Chairmen of International Programme Committee:
Sindre Roesvik, Norway
Malcolm Beazley, Australia.
   
Chairman of The Local Organizing Committee:
Helen Bargel.
   
For further information, please contact TeleTeaching 93 Secretariat.
   
   
High speed Datacommunication Network
August, 19, 1993, Trondheim, Norway
   
     An important aspect of teleteaching is the creation and use of
suitable networks to facilitate the delivery of distance education pro-
grammes. Research on networks together with their development and applica-
tion throughout the world will be discussed.
   
Topics:
-       Network development and history
-       Main trends in private and public networks
-       Trends in high speed communication
-       Applications, today and tomorrow
-       Demands on future network users
-       Terminals
-       Broadband requirements
-       Co-existence with other applications - multiuse of high
        speed network
-       Economic aspects of using the new technology
-       High speed network carriers (SMDS, Frame Relay, FDDI etc.)
   
Chairman of Programme Committee:
Frank Kobberoed, Norway
   
For further information, please contact:
Frank Kobberoed
Norwegian Telecom, Central Region
7005 Trondheim
Norway
Tel:   +47 7 544077
Fax:   +47 7 544070
   
   
WORKSHOPS
     Suggestions for separate workshops during the conference are welcome.
Please contact the Secretariat.
   
   
EXHIBITION
     The exhibition is open for the presentation of equipment, systems,
software and other products of importance to teleteaching. Please focus on
available products as well as solutions for the future. Organizations,
institutions and others are also invited to present their educational
programmes as well as other activities initiated in order to promote
teleteaching and distance learning.
     Experts from around the world and key persons introducing new technol-
ogy into teaching and learning organizations will be attending the exhibi-
tion.
     Entrance to the conference auditoriums will be from the exhibition
area. The delegates will have easy access to the exhibition.
     Potential exhibitors are asked to contact the Conference Secretariat
for further information. We would also like to receive proposals for
companies, organizations or individuals that ought to be invited to
participate in the exhibition and present interesting products and activ-
ities.
   
   
REGISTRATION
     In February 1993 the Preliminary Programme, including registration
form will be distributed. More details about accommodation and booking, the
social programme and pre- or post-conference tours, as well as accepted
papers, will be given at this time.
   
   
CONFERENCE FEE
Payment before March 30, 1993:   USD 275
Payment after March 30, 1993:   USD 350
All authors:          USD 275
   
   
WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION:
     Participants will receive  Abstracts of Papers. Proceedings will be
published by Elsevier Publishing Company and be available at the confer-
ence.
   
   
KEY DATES
October 10, 1992:   Deadline of submission of full papers and abstracts
                    (six copies).
January 30, 1993:   Notification of acceptance/rejection of papers and
                    posters.
February 15, 1993:  Preliminary programme will be published.
March 27, 1993:     Camera-ready copy of revised papers received by the
                    Programme Committee together with passport photo.
May 31, 1993:       Camera-ready copy of abstracts for short presentations,
                    posters, exhibition, demonstrations, workshops etc.
                    received by the Conference Secretariat.
May 31, 1993:       Conference registration deadline.
August 20-25, 1993: TeleTeaching 93.
   
   
ORGANIZING THE CONFERENCE
TeleTeaching 93 is an IFIP open conference.
   
International Programme Committee:
-       Head of Project Jan WIBE, chairman
        University of Trondheim, Norway
-       Director Gyozo KOVACS,  vice-chairman
        Application and Service Company, Budapest,  Hungary
-       Head of Computing Department
        Gordon DAVIES,  managing editor
        The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
-       Professor  Robert  M. AIKEN
        Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
-       Professor  Monique GRANDBASTIEN
        Universite Nancy 1, France
-       Director Raymond MOREL
        CIP, Geneva,  Switzerland
-       Professor Iam CHAYA-NGAM
        Sukhothai Thammathira Open University, Thailand
-       Director Brian SAMWAYS,  co-editor
        Birmingham City Council, United Kingdom
-       Inspector Erling SCHMIDT
        Municipal Authority of Aalborg, Denmark
-       Professor  Antonio VAQUERO
        Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
-       Professor  Martial VIVET
        LIUM - Universite du Maine, Le Mans, France
   
Norwegian Advisory Committee:
-       Executive officer Gunnar GREPPERUD
        The Norwegian Executive Board for Distance Education, Tromsoe
-       Research Sociologist Tove KRISTIANSEN
        Norwegian Telecom, Oslo
-       Head of Project Tore R. JOERGENSEN
        The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim
-       Editor of DEOS, Morten Flate PAULSEN
        The American Center for the Study of Distance
        Education, Pennsylvania, USA
-       Research leader Torstein REKKEDAL
        NKI, Oslo
-       Secretary General Reidar ROLL
        International Council for Distance Education (ICDE), Oslo
-       Research Fellow Morten SOEBY
        University of Oslo
   
Norwegian Steering Committee:
-       Director Arvid STAUPE, chairman
        The Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and
        Church Affairs, Oslo
-       Professor Asbjoern ROLSTADAAS, President of IFIP
        The Norwegian Institute of Technology
-       Managing Director Per BEGBY, Norwegian Computer Society
-       Chairmen of International Programme Committee and
        Organizing Committee
   
Chairman of Organizing committee:
-       Senior PR Consultant Jan BREDEVEIEN
        Sr. Gruppen as, Trondheim.
   
Conference Secretariat:
-       TeleTeaching 93
        Kersti LARSEN
        Norwegian Computer Society
        POB. 6714 Rodeloekka
        N-0503  Oslo
        Norway
        Tel:        +47 2 370213
        Fax:        +47 2 354669
        Email:      teleteach@avh.unit.no   or:  Campus2000:   01:YNP018
   
SPONSORS
The International Federation for Information Processing is the main
sponsor.
The International Council for Distance Education is the cosponsor.
Norwegian Telecom is the main financial supporter.
The Norwegian Computer Society is the organizer of the conference.
SAS is the Official Carrier.
   
I AM INTERESTED IN:
        submitting a paper
        presenting a poster
        participating in a teleteaching project before the
        conference taking part in the exhibition
        other interest (please specify)
        Please send the preliminary programme
Name:
Institution:
Address:
Tel:
Fax:
Email:
   
Payment before March 30, 1993:   USD 275
Payment after March 30, 1993:   USD 350
All authors:    USD 275
   
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