Fifth Generation Distance Education

Quite an interesting paper profiling the evolving models of distance education.
http://www.detya.gov.au/highered/hes.htm

Cheers,

George

 

Thanks for the reference.

Yes it was interesting to say the least. I was involved in Interactive Video course development several years ago. We thought we died and were in heaven with our cutting edge technology using IBM Infowindow and PS/2 with those zippy fast 286 CPUs. And WOW 1 Meg worth of RAM memory to work with !

My how times have changed and I look forward to even greater advances.

Also to note, there is an interesting article on the site you cited concerning Research Based degrees. Unfortunately, the Adobe file did not come through my printer with any clarity. I hate reading those files on screen !

Regards,

Dick

 

The original PS/2 machines had the little-heard-from 80186 microprocessor, the first truly (internally and externally) 16-bit Intel chip. And while the machines had 1 Mg RAM, DOS could only address 640K. And that was the time before we could do much to "load high" device drivers, DOS kernels and such, so that extra RAM was wasted, as was too much of the addressable 640K.

Animal skins and stone knives....

Rich Douglas, coming to you from a 1.4Ghz P4 with a 19-inch .26 pitch monitor, 256Mg Rambus RAM, 80g HD, CD-ROM RW, DVD, and a $@&*@%!!! 56k dialup modem.

 

I haven't seen one of these, Rich, where did you buy it? Must be a new brand, huh?

Russell