Standing Committee on Employment, Education
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Submission 42.1
ANZAAS(NSW)
A Division of the Australian & New Zealand Association for the advancement
of Science (Inc)
Internet Key Centres
The use of Internet key centres to provide teaching material with suitable
interactive facilities should be encouraged. A detailed plan for such
a scheme was described on 28 October 1997 at the Global Information Workshop
held at the Australian Technology Park by Tony Whittingham, Director of
TAFE NSW Information Technology, Arts and Media Educational Services Consortium.
With such an approach the role of lecturers becomes, quite properly, that
of advisers to students. Individual students with problems are pinpointed
by the systems network-based questions and answers.
This approach should also be made available to universities and schools.
Its use overseas and its potential is described on pp 21-22 of the excellent
Universities Suruey in the October 4th - 10th issue of the Economist.
Address for correspondence.
Dr R. S. Vickery
School of Biological Science
UNSW
SYDNEY NSW 2056
email: vickery@mpx.com.au
phone: 0293692705
3 November 1997
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