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Scotland poised for ‘world’s first’ schools intranet

September 27, 2005

Updated: September 27, 2005

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Thanks Ray Schroeder for pointing to The Scottish Executive having sealed a multi-million pound deal to link up every pupil and teacher through what is said to be the world’s first national school intranet. The contract will provice a secure online learning environment connecting 800,000 students in all 3,000 schools in the country. The other two components of the system, a large-scale ‘content delivery infrastructure’ and its broadband backbone known as the ‘Interconnect’, are already in place. (Northern Ireland’s Classroom 2000 (C2K) project appears to have achieved all of this already as the world’s first national schools intranet.) It’s good to see parts of the information supply chain go into place as a package.

Robert Heiny http://www.robertheiny.com

Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

Scotland poised for ‘world’s first’ schools intranet

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