EDUCATION VIA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

Advanced technologies like the World Wide Web offer interesting opport unities for improving higher education, A recent study done at the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on these matters and made several specific recommendations, Since this study was completed, a new center was established at MIT to coordinate and promote the use of advanced technologies in education, and a high-level council on ed ucational technology was formed, After briefly peering into the future , this paper describes the study and the new center, An on-line versio n of the paper, with linked references to the study report and other W eb resources, appears in the CD-ROM that accompanies this printed vers ion of the paper.