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            * E D U C O M * U P D A T E *   1 May 1996

Educom Update is an electronic information service covering news about
Educom, its member institutions, its corporate affiliates, and other
organizations that share Educom's goals for transforming education through
information technology. To submit news and calendar information, send mail to
[e-mail].

IN THIS ISSUE:

New in Print
Resources to Explore
Globally Speaking
Congratulations!
Conference Spotlights
Calendar of Events
EDUCOM'96 and Beyond: A Long-Range Planning Calendar


NEW IN PRINT

*Knowledge Inc.: The Executive Report on Knowledge, Technology & Performance.
Spearheaded by Britton Manasco, Lewis Perelman, and Tom Davenport, this
monthly newsletter promises to "critically  examine the challenges that
knowledge-intensive corporations face ... and report on the innovative
solutions they adopt." Subscription cost is $397/year; discounted group rates
are also available. For more information or to subscribe to Knowledge Inc.
contact Quantum Era Enterprises by calling 415-961-4106 or sending e-mail to
[e-mail].

*Key Guide to Electronic Resources: Art and Art History by Martin Raish.
More than 300 CD-ROMs, CD-Is, Laserdiscs, Network Resources, and other image
and text databases for the study of the visual arts, with descriptions,
evaluative comments, and addresses. To order the Key Guide (ISBN 1573870226)
contact Information Today, Inc. at 609-654-6266.

*Information Hotline. The Science Associates International's monthly
publication summarizes hundreds of news releases on new developments in
computer software and hardware, telecommunications, interactive technology,
the information superhighway, databases, networks, and new new government and
private sector initiatives. For more information, call 1-800-721-1080, fax
908-536-7673, or e-mail [e-mail].

RESOURCES TO EXPLORE

*On-Line Feedback for Internet Quizzes Now Available. Universities,
corporations, and other high-volume users of electronic quizzes, tests,
surveys, and questionnaires can now give direct feedback over the Internet to
trainees, students, employees, or customers who are answering questions. At
the end of each test, all wrong answers appear on the student's screen and
the computer explains what the answer should have been. For more information
call 800-863-3950, see http://www.questionmark.com/, or e-mail
[e-mail].

*These Mind Seducing Riddles. The Foundation for Brain Research has produced
this software to help children and adults develop and hone problem-solving
and creative thinking skills. The software has age ratings, hints, difficulty
ratings, and search devices to find riddles on 48 broad areas (e.g., love &
marriage) or 15 "umbrella" indexes (e.g., grieving). PC and Mac versions. For
more information contact the Foundation for Brain Research, c/o Tufts
University Department of Child Study, 105 College Avenue, Medford, MA.
02155-5583.

*Sunny Delight Web Site Offers $10,000 College Scholarship. By hunting for
Sunny Delight bottles hidden throughout the Internet, students are given a
chance to win backpacks, T-shirts, mountain bikes, video games, and a $10,000
college scholarship. The site also helps users find information about
colleges, access library resources, and learn about Internet search tools.
For more information see http://www.sunnyd.com.

GLOBALLY SPEAKING

*NISS to Host NetFirst for United Kingdom Education. National Information
Services and Systems has been chosen by the Joint Information Systems
Committee of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils to host NetFirst
online. NetFirst is a directory of Internet information resources containing
descriptions of over 50,000 Internet resources, and is growing at around 1000
entries per week. The service will be available free of charge to all staff
and students in UK higher education. For more information contact
[e-mail] or [e-mail].

CONGRATULATIONS!

*University of Delaware (UD) Distance Learning Program Wins National Award.
UD received the Most Outstanding Achievement in Higher Education award from
the United States Distance Learning Association. The award recognizes the
University's development of a distance learning program involving 28 academic
departments, two degree programs, 1,722 enrollments in 12 states, and the use
of multiple technologies including vcable, satellite, video, and interactive
t.v. In any one semester, more than 10 percent of the University's 800
full-time faculty are teaching in video or distance-learning environments.
For more information, call Edward Okonowicz at 302-831-2791.

CONFERENCE SPOTLIGHTS

*Fourth Annual CICNet Conference on Datafication: Sustaining the Global
Network/Building New Communities. May 15-17, 1996. Marshall University,
Huntington, West Virginia. In the past three years, CICNet's annual Rural
Datafication Conferences have contributed by raising questions-and providing
some answers-about rural and small community networking. In response to the
many changes in the networking community that have occurred since the first
meeting, the fourth conference will expand significantly on the original
themes of access to the Net in remote locations. Conference tracks will
include civic and community networking, education, health, and agriculture,
as well as connectivity and access issues.

*WVNET Users' Conference. Participants at the Fourth Annual CICNet Conference
are also invited to attend the West Virginia Network for Educational
Telecomputing (WVNET) annual users' conference, taking place in Huntington
directly preceding the Datafication Conference, May 14-15, 1996. WVNET's
participants can help you learn more about local issues in networking from a
statewide perspective. For more information on either conference, visit
http://www.marshall.edu/rd4/ or call Marshall University Conference Services
at [phone].

CALENDAR OF EVENTS [For an expanded listing of conferences, seminars,
workshops, and other events, see the Events Calendar on Educom's gopher
server (educom.edu) or World Wide Web server (http://educom.edu).]

*CUMREC `96: In Tune with Technology. May 5-8, 1996. The Opryland Hotel,
 Nashville, Tennessee. Contact: [e-mail] or
615-322-3900 or http://www.sdstate.edu/~cc19/http/cumrec/homecumrec.html

*Fourth Annual Conference on Datafication. May 15th-17th, 1996. Marshall
University, Huntington, West Virginia. Contact: fax [phone] or e-mail
[e-mail]

*96th Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, May 19-23, 1996,
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Contact:
[e-mail], 202-942-9297 or 202-942-9206

*18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing: Assessing the
Reality of New Markets and New Media, May 29-31, 1996, Minneapolis Hilton and
Towers, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact: 303-422-3914, fax [phone]

*Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions, May 30-31, 1996, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact:
[e-mail], 303-939-0315, or
http://cause-www.colorado.edu/conference/regional/regional-hp.html

*AMTEC'96. June 2-5, 1996. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Contact:
http://www.media-services.ubc.ca/homepages/amtec/amtec96.html

*National Educational Computing Conference. June 11-13, 1996. Minneapolis
Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN. Contact: NECC at 612-638-8764, fax
612-638-8769, or e-mail [e-mail]

*ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia,
ED-TELECOM--World Conference on Educational Telecommunications. June 17-22,
1996. Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. Contact:
http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/calendar.html.

*WEB.X-The Internet Event for Business/New York, June 18-20, 1996, Jacob
Javits Convention Center, New York City, NY. Contact: 1-800-829-3976 or
e-mail [e-mail]

*NCTLA What Works II: Postsecondary Education in the 21st Century, A National
Conference. June 21-23, 1996. Penn State University, University Park, PA.
Contact: 1-800-PSU-TODAY (778-8632) or http://www.cde.psu.edu/NCTLA.

*ACUTA 25th Annual Conference, July 14-18, 1996, Chicago, IL. Contact: ACUTA
at 606-278-3338

*CETH Summer Seminar--Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools.
July 14-26, 1996. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Contact:
[e-mail] or http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu.

*ICLS--International Conference on the Learning Sciences, July 24-27, 1996,
Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago, IL. Contact:
http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/calendar.html

*Seminars on Academic Computing '96, August 2-7, 1996. Snowmass Village,
Colorado. Contact: http://www.orst.edu/groups/sac/index.html.

*International Conference on Computational Linguistics. August 5-9, 1996.
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact:
[e-mail].

EDUCOM'96 AND BEYOND: A LONG RANGE PLANNING CALENDAR

For detailed information about future Educom conferences, contact Educom at
202-872-4200 or e-mail [e-mail].

*EDUCOM'96, October 8-11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

*EDUCOM'97, October 28-31, Minneapolis, Minnesota

*EDUCOM'98, October 13-16, Orlando, Florida

*EDUCOM'99, October 26-29, Long Beach, California

*EDUCOM'2000, October 17-20, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

*EDUCOM'2001, October 30-November 2, Indianapolis, Indiana


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