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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Baggaley, Jon; Batpurev, Batchuluun; Klaas, Jim – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
In the previous report in this series, Web browser loading times were measured in 12 Asian countries, and were found to be up to four times slower than commonly prescribed as acceptable. Failure of webpages to load at all was frequent. The current follow-up study compares these loading times with the complexity of the Internet routes linking the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Software
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Baggaley, Jon; Klaas, Jim – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
An online conference is illustrated using the format of a TV talk show. The conference combined live audio discussion with visual images spontaneously selected by the moderator in the manner of a TV control-room director. A combination of inexpensive online collaborative tools was used for the event, based on the browser-based audio-conferencing…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Teleconferencing, Computer Software Evaluation, Distance Education
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Baggaley, Jon; Klaas, Jim; Wark, Norine; Depow, Jim – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
The increasing range of options provided by two popular conferencing freeware products, "Yahoo Messenger" and "MSN Messenger," are discussed. Each tool contains features designed primarily for entertainment purposes, which can be customized for use in online education. This report provides suggestions for optimizing the educational potential of…
Descriptors: Internet, Distance Education, Computers, Video Technology