A life-enhancing tool or a brain bashing device?
Huw Jones examines the possible risks of virtual reality. New uses of virtual reality are reported almost daily. With prices falling, VR systems could become as ubiquitous as the personal computer....
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The TLTP debate
Publicly-funded initiatives in education technology have enabled many university departments to explore interactive media for teaching and learning. But the Computers in Teaching Initiative and the...
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ROMping to the bank
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
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Search for a pharmacy set which works
David Mottram asks if there is a formula for computer-assisted learning in pharmacology that works for both student and teacher. Undergraduate pharmacy degree courses encompass a wide range of...
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Material case for mixed-up culture
Multimedia teaching techniques will only thrive if there is a radical change in the way courses are structured, Jonathan Darby argues. Anyone who has been observing the educational technology scene...
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Clockwork factories
Computing science is failing its students and drastic measures are needed to remedy the problem, Darrell Ince argues. Most of our computing departments should be closed down and their staff dispersed...
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Job web option to milk round
In a high-technology alternative to the traditional "milk-round", Coventry University is showcasing its students' skills on the World Wide Web. According to careers guidance officer David Bennett,...
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Two on net porn charges
An 11-month investigation by West Midlands police has led to two men being charged with distributing child pornography on the Internet. The charges arise from a raid by police on the metallurgy...
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Euro OU moves a step closer
Twenty-five senior educationists representing 16 countries met in London last Friday to begin work on the European Open University. The meeting, organised by the Open Learning Foundation and hosted...
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Internet Book Shop
The Internet Book Shop has more than 750,000 titles online, not as stated in last month's Multimedia. The World Wide Web address is: http://www.bookshop.co.uk
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Futures market
"The Virtual Future: policies for multimedia in the 21st century" is the title of a colloquium sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council's Programme on Information and Communication...
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Virtual call
A special issue of the Multimedia Systems journal from ACM Springer will focus on multimedia and multisensory virtual worlds. The editors have called for papers with submission due by May 15. Details...
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Graphic study
GIS95 exhibition and conference at the national exhibition centre, Birmingham from May 23-25 aims to show the best of graphical information systems developments in the past year. Telephone: 0181 742...
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Fiscal move
The Institute for Fiscal Studies this week opened its Internet Online Service on the World Wide Web to provide a range of research and publicity information together with online book purchasing,...
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Protein rich
IntelliGenetics, the bioinformatics division of the Oxford Molecular Group, has released "GeneWorks for Networks", a local area network licensing option for the protein sequence analysis software on...