Endnotes for Section Three


  1. C. N. Parkinson, Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration, Ballantine Books, 1957, p. 48

  2. H.Menzies, Whose Brave New World: The Information Highway and the New Economy, Between the Lines, 1996, p. 8

  3. R. Bernier, "Distance Education: Beyond Correspondence Courses", Canadian Social Trends, Spring, 1996, p. 22

  4. This issue was debated at the 1992 conference of the Canadian Association of University Continuing Education and prompted intense responses on both sides. A summary of this debate is in Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, Vol. XVIII, No.2, Fall, 1992, in a theme issue entitled, University Continuing Educators: Social Activists or Entrepreneurs?

  5. For example, Eric Newell, president of Syncrude, "Business and Education working together to create the system we need"; presentation to the Conference Board of Canada's 5th National Conference on Business and Educational Collaboration, 1994

  6. Menzies, op cit, p. 8.

  7. British Columbia's Electronic Highway, Ministry of Government Services, 1995, p. 1

  8. Distance Education and Open Learning: A Report, Council of Ministers of Education Occasional Paper # 1,1995. p.8

  9. ibid, p. 2, quoted from a Stentor press release, April 5,1994.

  10. CANARIE information kit, Jan. 1994.

  11. In contrast, most computer-mediated discussions have a time lapse between when messages are sent and when they are received: this is called "asynchronous" transmission.

  12. CMEC, op cit, cites Maritime Tel and Tel's estimates. p. 38.

  13. Those interested in more details about the cost of various technologies for learning should refer to A. W. Bates, Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education, Routledge, 1995).

  14. The Information Highway and Canadian Education: Discussion of Issues and Policy Recommendations, prepared on behalf of the Canadian Educational Network Coalition, the SchoolNet Advisory Board, and the Stentor Alliance, March. 1995.

  15. CRTC Decision 96-9. Sept. 27, 1996.

  16. A W. Bates, Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education, Routledge, 1995, p. 39.

  17. Those interested in more details about the cost of various technologies for learning should refer to Bates, op.cit.

  18. "Responding to the Information Highway", presented to the Working Group on Learning and Training, Information Highway Advisory Council, by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges, Jan. 1995, p. 6

  19. Bates, op.cit, p. 179

  20. William F. Birdsall, The Internet and the Ideology of Information Technology, paper presented at INET, 1996


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