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7: Re: Teaching from the beach
In response to 1 09/24/05 04:59 PM
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We have a wireless network covering the whole city. It was setup by all the secondary schools in the city: students could buy a transmitter for this system, teachers from the public schools got one for free. (The public schools use Moodle, the Christians use TeLeTOP as VLE on this network.)

Tomorrow we close this wireless network: not enough students buy a license, they prefer (the more expensive) cable and ADSL at their parents home..

Ger Tielemans
City of Enschede
The Netherlands

Posted by Ger Tielemans

10: Re: Re: Teaching from the beach
In response to 7 09/26/05 02:24 PM
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This seems unfortunate but I wonder whether it is unusual. On a much smaller scale, our university has just wifi-enabled our labs, lecture theatres and student cafe. It would be interesting to know how widely it will be used -- I had plans but these will not come to fruition this year. I suspect student ownership of wifi laptops raises issues of cost and security -- I was planning to deploy some of our small stock based on students sharing. I think LAMS has a major role to play in developing lessons in this area, both in labs and lecture theatres.

Do you know what the major negative factors were in Enschede? Cost of the licence? Cost of hardware? Performance? Security? Lack of lesson content?

Posted by Peter Miller

11: Re: Re: Re: Teaching from the beach
In response to 10 10/05/05 04:45 PM
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Well,

1. the parents got easier facilities at home: cable, ADSL.
2. the schools (Christian and Public together) did not setup special (promoting) activities after the initial start.
3. the killer one: bad connections in some area's: it was running in the free band where also radio-amateurs blow...

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