Knowledge Systems Institute
With the advent of the new technologies distance learning is a convenient rather than a necessary learning tool. The tools that can be used are: videotape recorders, computers, telephones, videoconferencing, faxes, etc.
Schools using distant education include K-12, high schools, colleges and graduate schools.
The different forms of distance education are:
a. Synchronous -- where students get lessons in real-time, as it happens. b. Asynchronous -- where lessons are stored for later study.
Asynchronous has the potential to be used 24 hours a day. There are several benefits to asynchronous education such as: a) Ability to see and replay class presentation on demand b) On-line record of all class presentations, readings, discussions c) On-line submissions, examinations and grade reporting
Many schools are using distant education such as National-Louis University, Walden University and hundreds of others listed in Bear’s Guide to Earning College degrees non- traditionally, and Thorson’s Campus-Free College Degrees, listed in the bibliography.
In this thesis we will see how New York University, Knowledge
Systems Institute and Wayne State University have used distance learning.
The FTIT search engine consists of the spider, the database,
and the search tool. The spider, which delves and retrieves the web content
from the Internet, stores all of the valid tokens to a database of the FTIT
search engine. The database, which is a kind of knowledge base database, collects
a great deal of information about valid tokens such as the name of valid tokens,
the attributes of valid tokens, and the addresses of home pages. The search
tool, which is a search utility, looks for information in the database of the
FTIT search engine and reports the result of the searching task to users via
CGI.
In order to achieve the purpose of explaining the function
of FTIT, the thesis will use Visual C++, standard Common Gateway Interface,
Hypertext Markup Language, and Windows NT network to demonstrate.
This thesis attemps to explain the way the socket programming
interface works with TCP/IP and the way the Visual Basic socket custom control
works with TCP/IP within 32-bit Windows environment. Finally the thesis presents
an application, the Chinese Chess game. Implemented with Visual Basic and a
socket custom control, the application works in the client/server model, with
TCP/IP network protocol, under the 32-bit Windows environment. Readers may find
that using the Visual Basic socket custom control to implement an application
using TCP/IP is not very difficult.
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, keeps everything
on the World Wide Web anchored to a common ground. It makes the Web dynamic.
One of the powerful features of HTML is its
this special HTML feature, we catalog all the books in the library and connect
them all in the Web page. This is the first test of the project.
Secondly we use a special mechanism that supports the dynamic
creation of HTML documents. This mechanism is based on the invocation of external
applications, usually referred to as CGI scripts, that run under the auspices
of a WWW server, and that are called by the client browser in the form of an
ordinary- looking URL from the Web document currently in use. CGI, which stands
for Common Gateway Interface, supplies the middleware between WWW servers and
external databases and information sources. We use CGI applications to perform
the book search processing and formatting tasks on behalf of their WWW servers.
Thirdly we use Java, one of the most popular Web programming
languages, to implement the on-line book search.
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