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- 020.06 Education by Susan Calcari <Susan.Calcari@um.cc.umich.edu>
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- Number of U.S. Higher Education Institutions attached to NSFNET, listed by
- their Carnegie Institute classification:
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- February, 1990
- April, 1991
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Archie:
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- WAIS:
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