OTHER REFERENCES TO THE PROJECT
From "Internet as a Vehicle for Teaching" by Christopher Clark, Ilieni, Covasna, Romania
"An important prerequisite for the development of internet learning in
Romania will no doubt continue to be the training of
educators and researchers. It was encouraging to hear about training
initiatives which are already established. Cristina
Nicolescu (ncristin@valhalla.racai.ro) described a particularly
successful three day course offered to members of the
Romanian Academy; largely young researchers in the Humanities. This
course, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation in
New York, was attended by some 200 academics in 1996 who were also
offered continuing access to the internet at the
Centre for Advanced Research in Machine Learning. "
From "Evaluating Long Term Impacts Of Internet Training In An Academic Setting:
The Romanian Internet Academy."
"The setting for this study is the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania. We feel that the course we describe is one of the more rigorous of its type in the region-but but it is
certainly not the only one. For instance, the Kiev Regional Office of the Eurasia foundation in 1995 offered grant opportunities for facilitating Internet Communications in Ukraine,
Belorussia, and Moldova. The University of Moldova proposed the development of an Internet site to train users in navigation on the Internet. The successful 1996 program trained over
150 lecturers, scientists, postgraduates, and students over a 3-month period in electronic mail, tools for remote access and searching, and general Internet resources. (R. Dumbraveanu,
1997). A study of researchers in Chile (Ruth and Goet, 1993), also found good training to be essential to Internet technology diffusion, but the focus was country wide, not specific to a
specific location. "
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