Another significant advantage is that affordable and plentiful server storage space means that online courses can be integrated with large media files, multimedia content, archival material and many other applications to provide end users with dynamic course material relatively quickly. More storage space also means that documents larger than a disk which might have previously been inaccessible will be made available to anyone with a modem. As more and more courses are offered online, this option may increasingly be adopted as a way of averting a possible bottleneck in server capacity and storage. The workshop will be led by Rea Devakos and Laine Ruus, both librarians at the University of Toronto, and will focus on training issues for anyone currently offering or planning to offer instruction about the Internet. Lesley Ellen Harris will be leading the workshop, which will examine such topics as international copyright law, Bill C-32's impact on libraries, copyright and digital media, and the next phase of Canadian copyright reform.
Plans are afoot to mount the workshop in Toronto as well as in Alberta and Manitoba in the future.
Dr. Leslie Regan Shade, Research Affiliate with the Information Policy Research Program at the University of Toronto Join us as we explore technology's impact on the politics, practices, and processes of tenure and promotion in the changing university. Proposals for presentations are invited for the Third Annual Conference of EvNet to be held at Concordia University this February. Members and non-members of EvNet are encouraged to present papers, roundtable debates, posters, and demonstrations on research and products in the field of education and training technologies. The deadline for proposal submission is 19 December 1997. Tony Bates of the University of British Columbia will be a keynote speaker.