The new facility, dubbed Media Lab 2, will be devoted entirely to technology for helping children learn, according to the laboratory's director, Nicholas Negroponte. He spoke in New Orleans during a ceremony at Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. For colleges that have made the decision to put courses on line, the market offers a dizzying array of tools for developing classroom materials for the World-Wide Web. YALE Intel Corporation announced today that it would give millions of dollars' worth of new computing equipment to a dozen universities. The Western Governors made a big splash, but don't count out the South.
Educators there are about to go public with their own regional program to promote distance learning.
An announcement of the new venture, to be called the Southern Regional Electronic Campus, is expected within a month. The announcement came on the first day of a conference on technology sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College. More universities are finding that the only way they can store and preserve all library materials is to create vast off-campus warehouses. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is converting its campus computer store into a virtual marketplace. D.C. But a new virtual tour created at Northwestern University is enabling a host of sightseers to visit the Court on line.