Our group is interested in combining mass and individualized technologies to make them inexpensive and accessible anywhere around the world. We predict that these new global electronic technologies will significantly change the way people are educated and trained. This integrated approach to EDE uses more than one delivery and distribution platform, integrating mass delivery of instructional materials via satellite or Internet with innovative low-cost options for terrestrial feedback and interaction using Internet, telephone lines, and wireless telecommunications. The result will be increased access to richer learning environments while enhancing interactivity and sharing of information among teachers and students. We hope to identify and develop promising technologies that enrich pedagogy, technologies that can be used in ways to promote critical thinking skills, problem solving, collaborative experience, and collegiality in the learning community.
Technology now allows instruction to emanate from the teacher's desktop computer.
Click here to see a summary of more than 45 televideo systems Using such systems is best done over high-speed lines of the Internet. However, Internet service is not readily available in underdevelop areas of the world. The new electronic distance education technologies make it possible to implement delivering instruction on a large, world-wide scale. Multimedia EDE is becoming a practical reality. Traditional EDE efforts often put the emphasis on electronic delivery systems for slickly packaged instructional material.