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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:33:00 CST
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- From: SLATIN@UTXVM.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Standardizing Composition Cl
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- Hey, Karen, good to hear from you! and Happy New Year to all. I think the
- Writing-Intensive On-Line Learning ENvironment (I tried to come up with
- something that made for a better acronym, but gave up) is a long way from
- happening at UT in any official institutional way-- though at some level it
- already exists, judging by reports I get from and of students staying up all
- night playing in the MUDs (I can't remember what it stands for; something
- about virtual, self-constructing D&D environments with multiple users; in
- Austin, MUD stands for Municipal Utiilty District, meaning something outside
- the city limits that screws up the local environment) and other electronic
- environments. Setting up this sort of thing requires, at a minimum, that
- every student and every faculty member have automatic access to a campus
- computing account, something we're hoping to set up by next Fall. That of
- course requires funding from somewhere, a problematic issue of course at any
- time. How do your campuses handle such things? What sort of fees do students
- pay for access to computing, and how much do they get for what they pay?
-
- John Slatin
- UT AUstin
-