Panel Sessions

"Embracing the Changing Learning Environment"
October 28-31, 1997
Minneapolis, MN
Hosted by the University of Minnesota

Thursday, October 30, 1997 - 11:00 am-12:15 pm

New Strategies for Learningware Development: The NLII Perspective

Bob Carlton, Dir of Strategic Alliances--Intl Thomson Publishing Ed Group; Carol Twigg, VP--Educom; Jack Wilson, Acting Dean of the Faculty--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Educom's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) has spent the last year engaging its institutional and corporate members in discussions about how best to create a robust commercial market for high-quality, college-level learningware. We began by observing that the efforts of colleges and universities to develop instructional software have not resulted in a sustainable, scaleable body of learning materials. We believe that partnerships between the publishing community and higher education offer greater possibilities of success. But while many institutions and companies are generally in favor of the idea, few of these partnerships have come to fruition. This panel presents the results of two NLII invitational symposia that have been held on this topic and outlines our sense of the necessary ingredients for successful collaboration.

Internet 2 Update

Guy Almes, Chief Engineer; Ted Hanss, Dir of Applications; Douglas Van Houweling, Vice Chair--Internet2

Internet2 members are joining with industry and government to create the advanced applications and broadband network services that are essential to meet new priorities within higher education and address the needs of the global Internet communtiy. The presenters provide an update on Internet2 organization, engineering and applications. Learn how Internet2 plans to support capabilities such as tele-immersion, digital libraries and virtual laboratories in higher education

Key Standards for Networked Information

Moderator: Joan Lippincott, Asst Exec Director--CNI Speakers: Carl Lagoze, Project Leader, Digital Library Research Group--Cornell University; Clifford Lynch, Executive Director--CNI; Mark Hinnebusch, Assistant Director--Florida Center for Library Automation; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist--OCLC, Inc.

Standards developers and implementers discuss issues related to authentication, URNs, Z39.50, metadata, and distributed object-oriented systems.