Technology


Distance learning at its best: A bridge linking local, national and global communities.

The Internet, mobile classrooms and digital media are all part of EILI's palette.

This gathering place for communities, students and individuals is a distance and distributed learning network focusing on fundamental issues of importance for humanity. Interactive links enable direct communication with field scientists and professionals where research data and action plans can be shared and implemented.

Similar to a radio or television network, interactive information is delivered using a variety of media -- some of it tried and tested, some of it quite new. Media formats will include writeable DVDs and CDs, web conferencing, low-frequency radio, virtual tours and interactive television.

In the future, the EILI Network's planned mobile classrooms will take technology issues and and a variety of engaging subjects directly to people, young and old. So what is this moving laboratory? It's a bus that can be moved and plugged in wherever it goes, featuring computer stations and digital networking options.

This mobile laboratory is an evolution of stationary learning labs that once were the foundation blocks at the J.C. Sparkman Educational Center of Denver-based Tele-Communications, Inc. This exciting facility provided students and educators with direct experience to an exciting new world of digital multimedia.

Communities, organizations and schools will be able to schedule the lab for a variety of hands-on training experiences. Mobile classrooms will provide PC or Macintosh platforms. They will be able to transmit information around the world via the Internet, and send or receive television and radio information.