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020.06 Education
by Susan Calcari <Susan.Calcari@um.cc.umich.edu>
The past year has seen a huge increase in the number of people asking for
information on applications and resources on the Internet. This trend was
seen this Fall at such conferences as Interop and Educom where information
services presenatations had overflowing attendance. In addition, the
profile of Internet users is changing. What in the past was mostly a tool
for engineers and computer scientists is being used more and more by
librarians, social scientists, and educators at all levels of academia.
The chart below reflects the increasing number of academic institutions
attached to NSFNET in the U.S. This growth accounts in part for the
increased interest in how to use the Internet more easily and effectively.
Number of U.S. Higher Education Institutions attached to NSFNET, listed by
their Carnegie Institute classification:
February, 1990
April, 1991
Research I 66 of 70 70
of 70
Research II 33 of 33 34
of 34
Doctoral I 32 of 51 45
of 51
Doctoral II 33 of 59
47 of 57
Comprehensive I 66 of 427 172 of 427
Comprehensive II 9 of 174 14 of 174
Liberal Arts I 16 of 125 56
of 125
Liberal Arts II 9 of 439 23
of 439
A great amount of work is currently being done to include the Kindergarden
through 12th grade (K-12) community (children ages five through eighteen) in
the Internet and the NREN. The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has
formed with individuals from all types of organizations, including K-12
educators, to tackle issues such as the development of networking
applications for the classroom; the need for simple and standard user
interfaces; directories for locating resources, projects, and project
collaborators; and achieving widespread connectivity.
An important development for educators has been the emergence of several
tools which make it easier for educators and others to search for resources
on the Internet . These tools present a simpler user interface than the
standard FTP and telnet application layer protocols by implementing a
client/server model. There has been a great amount of activity and
collaborative projects springing up around two such tools, Archie and WAIS.
In fact, an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF ) Working Group has been
formed to define a set of recommended standard procedures for the access and
administration of anonymous ftp archive sites on the Internet. This working
group is called Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA). To subscribe to the
mailing list, send mail to: iafa-request@cc.mcgill.ca
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To receive information on these tools send mail to the addresses below.
Archie:
WAIS: