ACTV NET DEBUTS eSchool Online.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1997-- Integrates Web Functionality into Existing Educational and Distance Learning Initiatives ACTV ACTV Active ACTV Activate ACTV Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (Venice Public Transport Company, Italy) ACTV Advanced Compatible Television Net, Inc., a division of ACTV, Inc. (Nasdaq: IATV), a leader in the field of individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. educational services, today opened a new era in Internet-based distance learning by introducing eSchool Online, a Java-based Internet service that creates virtual classrooms. Instructors can now create or customize their own virtual learning community by combining Web sites with video-based distance learning programming to create an optimal learning environment. The service will be accessible through ACTV's web-site and consists of three different Java applet A Java program that is downloaded from the server and run from the browser. The Java Virtual Machine built into the browser is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java application. interfaces: students, teacher and administrative. At the International Distance Learning Conference (IDLCON) in Washington, DC today, Bruce J. Crowley, President of ACTV Net stated, "eSchool Online is a forerunner A family of ATM adapters from Marconi (formerly Fore Systems). See Marconi. to the future of education. This innovative service has tremendous educational implications such as providing a direct connection between home and school, economizing educational staff development and broadening each student's core curriculum. Instructors can expand their roles to become "educational guides" by exposing students to relevant Web material, thereby facilitating the learning process and enhancing each student's ability to process and retain information. For the student, eSchool stimulates their innate abilities by promoting exploratory and discovery-based learning." Crowley also noted that eSchool Online further reaffirms ACTV's leadership role in new instructional technologies There are two types of instructional technology: those with a systems approach, and those focusing on sensory technologies. The definition of instructional technology prepared by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology and that revenues in the Company's education business should more than triple in fiscal 1997. eSchool enables instructors to schedule and automate the delivery of relevant educational web-pages directly to a student's computer. This facilitates a dynamic learning environment that connects new content to a instructor's lesson plan through the use of the Internet. Additionally, eSchool CHAT sessions can be conducted by students to share ideas with other students or with their instructors. Dr. Cindi M. Baker, Senior Vice President, ACTV Net, Inc. added "eSchool provides schools, colleges and corporations the opportunity to create new instructional content which combines the best of the Internet with their existing instructional programming. eSchool facilitates the integration of Web resources into instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of so that new models of instruction can be created which bring current information to the learner in a ready to use format under the guidance of a content expert." Instructors, connected to ACTV's Web site through the Internet, access the "instructor applet A small application, such as a utility program or limited-function spreadsheet or word processor. Java programs that are run from the browser are always known as applets. See midlet, crapplet and Java applet. " to assemble Web material - from the vast amount of educational resources available over the Internet or through their private Intranet - which correspond to or supplement the video based instruction currently delivered. The instructor types the Web address, a description of the address which participants can understand, and the time within the scheduled distance learning lesson that the Web page should automatically appear on a student's computer. Students connect to ACTV's Web site through the Internet, log on and access the "student applet" which receives the Web pages that the instructors have pre-selected and scheduled to be webcast to the students' computers. Also embodied in the student applet is a description of the Web page sent, a CHAT window and a video window. The video can be sent to a window in the student's computer or the video can appear on a television adjacent to the PC. eSchool content can be provided synchronously syn·chro·nous adj. 1. Occurring or existing at the same time. See Synonyms at contemporary. 2. Moving or operating at the same rate. 3. a. Having identical periods. b. or asynchronously to accommodate real time learning or learning on demand. ACTV offers instructors training on the multi-faceted uses of the service, enabling them to identify relevant web-pages and synthesize To create a whole or complete unit from parts or components. See synthesis. the best educational materials for their student's needs. The Company provides content services, the Java client software and server support. Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , ACTV, Inc. enhances the quality of television viewing by offering both live and pre-recorded individualized entertainment and educational programming. CONTACT: ACTV, Inc. Daniel F. Mahony, Jr. (212) 262-2570 or MWW/Strategic Communications, Inc. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most - Tel. (201) 507-9500 Robert E. Swadosh (rswadosh@mww.com) |
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