LEVERAGE Conference papers

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Education in the communication age

The 1st LEVERAGE conference on broadband communications in education and training, Education in the communication age, took place at the University of Cambridge 7-8 January 1998 and brought together participants from a range of pedagogical, technical, academic and industrial backgrounds from throughout Europe and further afield.

The conference opened with a keynote address by Mark Warschauer of the University of Hawai'i. The programme included presentations of many innovative projects, as well as papers from LEVERAGE partners on their experiences of both the technical and pedagogical aspects of introducing broadband network-based learning for languages and other disciplines.

The summaries below have been provided by the speakers.

From the workplace to the classroom:
innovation, reform and resistance in the communication age

Mark Warschauer - University of Hawai'i

A survey on standards for videoconferencing over broadband networks

Luis Bellido - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Using New Technologies through a Broad-Band Integrated Service Digital Network for Language Learning

M. Mar Duque and Ana Ibañez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Session Management and Collaboration in LEVERAGE

David Fernández, Luis Bellido, Encarna Pastor - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Cross-Cultural Language Teaching with Multimedia Tools

Valérie Gauthier - HEC School of Management, Jouy-en-Josas, France

SIMULAB, WWW-based interactive simulations for language learning

Boo Hever - Majornas Vuxengynasium & Graciela Nielsen - Norweigan State Centre for Adult Education (SVR)

The practice and practicality of telematics and videoconferencing

Michael Jones - University of Ulster

Teaching by an intermedia medium - towards a pocket school

Ferhat Khenak - Univeristé de Toulouse-Le Mirail

Asynchronous text-based interaction as a medium for language learning

Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Robin Goodfellow, Patricia Manning -
Open University CML and the Institute for Educational Technology

My teacher is on the network - Experiences using multimedia communication technologies in distance learning

Encarna Pastor, David Fernández, Tomás Robles - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

From policy to practice and back

Anne Stevens and Sue Hewer - Open University

Transforming global resources into learning content

Peter van Waart - AND Publishing Technology

A network-based training tool for electrical engineer's education

Thomas Zimmer, P. Kadionik, Y. Danto - Université Bordeaux