DR. LORETTA KASPER'S ESL 91 ON THE WEB

• Eight Technologies that will Change the World

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Time 100: Scientists and Thinkers--Tim Berners-Lee

• Inventor Tim Berners-Lee--A very comprehensive site on this important figure in the history of computer science.

• Internet Pioneers: Tim Berners-Lee--This site has information on Berners-Lee AND links to sites about other important Internet pioneers.

• Bill Gates

• Natural Language Processing Research from Microsoft

• All Talk, Part 1--from PrincetonInfo.com

• Babbage History

• Babbage and the Computer

• Computer History and Babbage

• Babbage

• Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer

• Babbage's Difference Engine

• Exhibit on Babbage from The Science Museum

• The Babbage Pages: Biography of Charles Babbage

• 1830 AD--Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

• Charles Babbage

• The Analytical Engine-Charles Babbage.

• A Brief History of Computing ***from CNET

• Five Visionaries Who Changed the Face of Technology ***from CNET

• 10 Visionaries Who Changed Computing in the 1990's

• J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990)

• Alan M. Turing

• How the Wireless Internet Works

• Bill Gates' WebSite--Speeches

• A Short History of the Computer

• Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers

• The Virtual Museum of Computing

• A Brief History of Computing

• The Computer: From Past to Present

• Hobbes' Internet TimeLine--Provides a year-by-year description of events in the History of the Internet

• An Internet pioneer--The real inventor of the Internet has a solid view of its future

• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush--One of the best articles ever written in the field of computer science

• The Impact of Information Technology on Education in the 21st Century by Loretta F. Kasper--This is the foundation reading text for the essay on Distance Education.

• U.S. News.com's report on E-Learning--This site contains many articles related to a variety of aspects in e-learning, or distance education.

• A Report on the Quality of E-Learning in 2002--from U.S. News.com

• E-Learning Today (2002)--from U.S. News.com

• "Logging in with . . . James R. Mingle:--Measuring Students' Learning is a Major Challenge for Distance Education" [THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Distance Education, August 25, 2000], Dan Carnreviewe interviews James Mingle, senior policy adviser for the Southern Regional Education Board's Distance Learning Policy Laboratory and head of a subcommittee studying faculty issues that evolve with the growth of online education.

• Distance Education

• Syllabus Magazine Archive--See June, 1999 and June, 2000 for information on Distance Learning

• Distance Education Campuses and Courses

• Online Course Demo

• CUNY's online course offerings

• Take an Online Course with the Writers' College

• Online Courses from Michigan State University

• Distance Education Clearinghouse

• World Wide Web Virtual Library on Distance Education

• Distance Education Links

• Basic Graphics for Distance Learning--A Powerpoint presentation that explains how to design visual aids for online classes

• Distance Education’s Best Kept Secrets by Barry Willis

• Teaching With Bells and Whistles by Katie Dean

• Computers in Schools: 10 Points to Avoid Past Errors--from TechKnowLogia.

• Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow Research Project

• Extending the Classroom Walls Electronically

• CNET, a site that contains a lot of useful information on computers.

• COG and Kismet --These sites describe two famous Artificial Intelligence Research Projects at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Loretta Kasper, Ph.D. Professor of English Kingsborough/CUNY 2001 Oriental Boulevard Brooklyn, NY 11235

Contact: Phone: 718-368-5849 Fax: 718-368-4786 Email: lkasper@kbcc.cuny.edu

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