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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Online lectures and courses
Message-ID: <1419@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 15:22:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: pdn.1419
Posted: Wed Sep 23 15:22:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 08:44:47 EDT
References: <1352@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
Lines: 57
Keywords: Connected Education, The New School For Social Research
Summary: EIES explaination

In article <1352@dasys1.UUCP>, patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes:
> ~~Connect Ed Fall 87 Lecture Series~~
> 
> 5 sessions.  Beginning Oct 19.  $150.  Single ticket $40.
> 
> Coordinator: Paul Levinson
> 
>      Bring leading social commentators and scholars into your homes
> or places of business via personal computer and modem.  Lecturers
> place essays in our specially designed "electronic campus" situated
> right here on EIES.  ..................................
                ^^^^
>
>      [stuff deleted]



       No explaination of EIES was given in this article, so I'll attempt
to do so.  EIES stands for the Electronic Information Exchange System.
EIES is a Computer Conferencing System operated by the Computerized 
Conferencing and Communications Center (CCCC) at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), located in Newark, New Jersey.


       Dr. Murray Turoff of NJIT and Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz of Upsala 
College are the principle people behind this system.  EIES has been operational
since 1977 (I believe) and is one of the first (if not the first) such system
made publicly available.  Dr.'s Turoff and Hiltz are the authors of numerous
papers on the sociological impacts of this form of communications and other
related topics.  They have also written a book: "The Network Nation", 1978,
Addison-Wesley.


       Anyway, one of the uses of this system that has been studied over the
past couple of years is as a medium for educational purposes.  Connected Ed
is only one of the several efforts.  Connected Ed is affiliated with the NYU
New School for Social Research.  NJIT and Upsala also offer a limited number
of courses via this system, known as the Virtual Classroom.  For further
information call (201) 596-EIES.


       Until my recent departure from Bellcore, NJIT and New Jersey for the
Florida sunshine, I had been a user of EIES for the past three years.  USENET
is far more encompasing, both in terms of the breadth of topics discussed and
the number of participants than EIES.  The current generation system is a
centralized one, while the next generation (soon????) will be decentralized.
EIES offers much more functionality than USENET does and concentrates on
aiding the human communication effort.




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