Learning Resource Server
The different Teaching Teleapprenticeships produce
various kinds of knowledge, which can be useful for other
network participants to access at some later time. To
explore the potential of this technology for improving
science and mathematics teacher education, we have been
developing what we call a Learning Resource Server (LRS),
which is actually a suite of servers, including a Gopher
server (gopher.ed.uiuc.edu)
and a World Wide Web (WWW) server (which you are using right
now). The LRS has been presented at several conferences as
an exemplary use of this new technology for education, and
it is highlighted in the EDUCOM Gopher server, the InterNIC
server, and the Gopher Jewels Gopher server at USC as one of
the exemplary education servers pointed to. We were
selected as one of the few Internet resources to be linked
to America Online. We plan to continue the exploration of
the kinds of knowledge that teachers and students find
useful, as an extension of our studies of the flow of
information and knowledge that we initiated with our Message
Assistant studies. We hope to build a general cognitive
science theoretical framework for these efforts, further
developing a conceptual framework we have created called the
"distributed network learning framework".
For more information about the LRS, see:
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