ERIC Number: EJ342867
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Publication Date: 1986
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The New Age of Telecommunication: Setting the Context for Education.
Wedemeyer, Dan J.
Educational Technology, v26 n10 p7-13 Oct 1986
This overview provides a technological context for the telecommunications age by describing existing and emerging systems--telephone, broadcasting, cable television, fiber optic, satellite, optical disk, and computer technology--and services available via these systems. It is suggested that educators need to become technologically literate and take advantage of these innovations. (MBR)
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Computers, Educational Innovation, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Teacher Responsibility, Technological Advancement, Technological Literacy, Telecommunications, Teleconferencing, Telephone Communications Systems, Videotex
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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