15040

15040

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (20 minutes, no formal paper)

Mason Joe, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Nome, Alaska, USA, gjmason@alaska.edu
 * Distance Delivery from Nome: A personal journey from the telephone to broadband, with stops and detours along the way. **

From the edge: Nome, Alaska, is at the edge of the Internet. Being at the periphery has been challenging. As new technologies and communications methods were developed, they came our way late. I have been with the University of Alaska since 1990. Take a journey with me as I work from distance delivering courses via the telephone and fax machine until the present, where current technologies are getting closer to being available in Nome and beyond. I present my view of the challenges encountered over the years operating from the edge, and the work I was involved in developing distance delivery methods that worked.

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