Claremont Graduate School of Claremont, California, U.S.A, directed on Campus Computing Survey in 1996. This insights offered valuable information and wide opportunities for enterprising executives and entrepreneurs, focused on Internet training and training via the Internet.
The findings strengthen the idea that distance education is fast becoming part and parcel of the fabric of institutional learning and that organizations involved in higher learning, if not elementary and secondary/middle/high schools, will soon forge lifelong relationships among teachers and alumni. From this frame work we find today, continuing education courses for professionals, who require annual credits and summer school on selected topics at remote sites, such as archaeological.
In this study of the use of information technology in higher education, they found that "instructional integration and user support are the two most important information technology issues confronting American colleges and universities of the world, over the twenty-first century."
The research found that two-thirds of all undergraduates have access to e-mail and the Internet-up from 60 percent in 1995. Four-fifths of the responding campuses have an institutional Web presence-up from 5.52 percent in 1995. In an important trend, more than one-sixth of the respondents have a formal plan for the role of the Internet and the Web in distance education-up from 12.5 percent in 1995. And more than half have a formal plan for using the Web in off campus promotion compared with almost two-fifths, or 38.1 percent, in 1995.
Even more important for the firms of tomorrow that intend to attract the students of today is the researches' assessment that colleges must confront growing expectations from students across all disciplines that technology will be part of the learning and instructional experience.
This technological tendency encourage us to organize and start the multilingual INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR INTERNET EDUCATION, to help students all over the world that are willing to learn this new technology and take advantage of it, for a personal development.
The annual survey, started in 1990 and now in its seventh year, is based on data from computing officials at 660 two- and four-year colleges and universities across the United States. Participating campuses completed the survey during summer 1996.
