The Hawaii Global TELEclass Project and Multimedia Computer-Based Educational Telecommunication (CBET)

Telecommunications projects underway in Hawaii include various multimedia computer-based educational telecommunications (CBET) and multimode node telecommunications (MMN) projects. CBET uses a computer network to send messages rather than an ordinary telephone call, and MMN is a technique for transf...

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Published inLearning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council no. 4; pp. 273 - 297
Main Author Southworth, John H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.11.1986
Subjects
Computer Networks
Educational Technology
Electronic Mail
Hawaii
High Schools
Intercultural Communication
International Programs
Multimedia Instruction
Second Language Instruction
Telecommunications
Teleconferencing
Hawaii
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Summary:Telecommunications projects underway in Hawaii include various multimedia computer-based educational telecommunications (CBET) and multimode node telecommunications (MMN) projects. CBET uses a computer network to send messages rather than an ordinary telephone call, and MMN is a technique for transferring messages, data, and images between electronically incompatible systems. Both systems are used in an asynchronous manner, whereby sender and receiver need not exchange information at the same time, and in a synchronous manner which is both immediate and interactive. A CBET project in Hawaii is the Hawaii Global TELEclass project, which has involved Hawaiian students in foreign language exchanges with students from Japan, as well as in other foreign language exchanges in Hawaii. As TELEclass continues into its third year, exchanges involving other languages and other subject fields are under consideration. The TELEclass experience also provides information about the establishment of a telecommunications program that can be transferred to other similar programs. (EW)