WWERC Day 1
Wow! The first World Wide Education and Research Conference was held in 1986 under a tent in the parking lot of the old Mountain View campus. There were about 50 attendees all from the US. This week's conference, being held in San Francisco's St. Francis hotel has 625+ attendees from 47 countries!
Sun's Vice President of Education and Research, Kim Jones, kicked off today's session talking about the six mega-trends in education,
It is easy to forget, but according to the Campus Computing Project , in 1994 only 8% of universities provided email as part of their IT infrastructure. Can you imagine a university without email today?