Events
TORQUAY TO TOKYO: Transitions Dance Company, based at the Laban Centre, starts an international tour in late March with performances at Portsmouth College; the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton upon...
TORQUAY TO TOKYO: Transitions Dance Company, based at the Laban Centre, starts an international tour in late March with performances at Portsmouth College; the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton upon...
SHEFC: John (Jack) Shaw has been reappointed chairman of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for a further three years from June 1. SCONUL The Executive Board of the Standing Conference of...
Students and young people have been using the Internet to send messages to the world leaders gathered in Copenhagen for the World Summit for Social Development. Unicef, the United Nations Children's...
The THES is sponsoring a multimedia workshop at Mediacomm'95, the international conference on multimedia communications in Southampton on April 11-12. The workshop will be led by Joel Greenberg of...
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
(Photograph) - Talk show: Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission with Al Gore, United States vice president who opened the G7 conference on the information society in Brussels....
What would you think of a course in: l French literature, based entirely on a Reader's Digest English version of The Three Musketeers l geography that still taught continental drift, without...
Michael Gell and Peter Cochrane scent opportunities in global education business. The emergence of a new turbulent phase in the global economy is likely to trigger absorption of much of the education...
Jurassic Park's dinosaurs showed the dramatic potential of virtual reality but set unattainable standards for the technology's more everyday uses. John Vince explains. Virtual reality systems should...
No need to walk around endless kilometres of the world's museums they are there, virtually. Jonathan Bowen looks to the future. Traditionally, visitors to museums have had to travel to the museum...
Academics should leave multimedia production to the professionals, Peter Fowler argues. The arguments had been so intense during the development of our multimedia package for cytology screeners that...
Huw Jones examines the possible risks of virtual reality. New uses of virtual reality are reported almost daily. With prices falling, VR systems could become as ubiquitous as the personal computer....
Publicly-funded initiatives in education technology have enabled many university departments to explore interactive media for teaching and learning. But the Computers in Teaching Initiative and the...
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
David Mottram asks if there is a formula for computer-assisted learning in pharmacology that works for both student and teacher. Undergraduate pharmacy degree courses encompass a wide range of...