AT&T awards $1 million in grants for Global Distance Learning Program.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1996--AT&T today announced grants totaling $1 million (U.S.) to support 15 distance learning projects involving collaborations among 60 universities in 26 countries as part of a new program, the AT&T Global Distance Learning Initiative. Administered by the AT&T Foundation and the International Council for Distance Education, the program is designed to encourage the use of communications technologies in teaching, curriculum development and educational research. "Distance learning, a term commonly used to describe the use of technology to connect students, teachers and institutions across time and geography, has the potential for reshaping educational systems and institutions around the world," said Marilyn Reznick, vice president for education at the AT&T Foundation. "As a global communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , AT&T has a strong interest in technology and education," Reznick said. "In October the company announced the AT&T Learning Network, a five-year, $150 million commitment to help connect every public and private elementary and secondary school in America to the Information Superhighway. Now we are reaching out to students, professors and institutions around the world to encourage the use of technology to facilitate communication and enhance teaching and learning." In September AT&T announced its restructuring into three separate companies: AT&T, a communications services company that retained the AT&T name; Lucent Technologies, a systems and technology company; and NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , the business computing company. AT&T awarded grants to universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Venezuela and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Each of the funded projects involves at least two institutions. In addition to the grant recipients, educational institutions in the following countries will participate in the funded distance learning projects: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Malaysia, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Peru, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. One of the funded projects, headed by the University of Southern Queensland USQ has a substantial campus in Hervey Bay (Fraser Coast Campus) to the north of Brisbane, and has recently established a new campus at Springfield in Brisbane's outer suburbs (2006). Another major campus of University of Southern Queensland has been set up in Auckland, New Zealand. in Australia, will support a collaboration among educational institutions in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop an international Graduate Teaching Certificate in Open and Distance Learning using telecommunications links, videoconferencing and the Internet. In other projects: -- Using satellite communications and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. transmissions, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. in Paris will join the Open University of the Netherlands and De Montfort University De Montfort University (DMU) is a British university situated in Leicester, England. History Origins De Montfort University, which is named after Simon de Montfort who was Earl of Leicester in the 13th century, is one of two universities situated in the in the United Kingdom in the creation of a "virtual classroom" to teach mathematics in both English and French. -- To reduce the isolation of rural and smaller urban communities throughout Brazil, the University of Sao Paulo will collaborate with the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. to develop a "virtual library" for access by primary, secondary and technical schools or homes in Brazil through the Brazilian National Research Network on the Internet. -- Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). in Pittsburgh will join educational institutions in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile through the Consortium for Distributed Learning Distributed Learning means a method of instruction that relies primarily on indirect communication between students and teachers, including internet or other electronic-based delivery, teleconferencing or correspondence; (British Columbia, School Act, 2006). in the Americas for a project that will develop strategic understanding of how technology may change the structure and processes of universities and their relationships to other constituents including business and government. Using an advisory committee, AT&T and the International Council for Distance Education selected the 15 funded projects from an applicant pool of 85 proposals involving more than 260 educational institutions in 40 countries. Advisory committee members were: Armando Rocha Trindade, President of the ICDE ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE International Council for Open and Distance Education ICDE International Council for Distance Education and Rector of Universidade Aberta (Portugal); Reidar Roll, ICDE General Secretariat (Norway); Marmar Mukhophyay, ICDE Vice President for Asia and Chairman, National Open University (India); Bernard Loing, ICDE Vice President for Europe (France); and Gary Miller
Gary Gene Miller (born October 16 1948), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing , Associate Vice President, Penn State University (U.S.). In addition, the selection process included proposal evaluators from several countries including Australia, Canada and Venezuela. The AT&T Global Distance Learning Initiative will be managed by the ICDE, a global membership organization for open and distance learning institutions, corporations and government agencies in the field of open and distance learning. Jennifer Melton of ICDE will serve as overall project manager on behalf of ICDE and AT&T. ICDE's President Armando Rocha Trindade said that the AT&T Global Distance Learning Initiative has the potential to become a powerful catalyst for the development of technology-based distance learning throughout the world. "ICDE is committed to expanding international cooperation involving interactive communications technologies in distance learning, and we are excited to be joining AT&T, a leading communications company, in this effort," he said. Support for education is a long-standing tradition at AT&T. Since 1984, AT&T has contributed more than $500 million (U.S.) to assist students, teachers and educational institutions worldwide. Information about the AT&T Global Distance Learning Initiative can be found on the Internet at http://www.att.com. CONTACT: AT&T John Heath, 908/221-6659 (office) 201/543-0811 (home) jheath@attmail.com or Sue Fleming, 908/221-8824 (office) 908/469-6952 (home) susanfleming@attmail.com |
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