DELTA workshop proceedings: Telecommunications-based training

The workshop "Telecommunications-based training for the 1990s", held in Madrid on 21-22 January 1991, was organized to present some of the interim results of research carried out within Action Line III of the 1988-1990 DELTA Exploratory Action. The proceedings of the workshop ...

The workshop "Telecommunications-based training for the 1990s", held in Madrid on 21-22 January 1991, was organized to present some of the interim results of research carried out within Action Line III of the 1988-1990 DELTA Exploratory Action. The proceedings of the workshop are now available, free of charge, from the DELTA Central Office. The 168-page document contains articles and analyses by leading experts on the following topics:

- R&D on telematics systems for flexible and distance learning;
- Telecom systems for training;
- EPOS: Building a working open learning service;
- Education via satellite: Technology in the boardroom and in the classroom;
- Corporate training by advanced telecommunications;
- Telecommunication-based training, OLE project;
- OLEW, The Open Laboratory for New Learning Approaches;
- IBM distance learning developments using video-conference;
- Pedagogical and organizational aspects of satellite-based distance education;
- Alternatives for EUROSTEP: a viable educational broadcast or a subsidized testbed for experimentation?
- Satellite medical education and data transfer: opportunities and pitfalls;
- Pan-European interactive satellite communication for distance learning;
- Overview of CAPTIVE;
- Channel e: Development of an European educational broadcast service by mass audience satellite.

Appendices list DELTA Advisory Board members and addresses of workshop participants.