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Gu, Wei., Liu, Chun. and Lin, Hui-Fei. "Bring Internet to Education: An Empirical Study of Different Policy Initiatives" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108792_index.html>

Gu, W. , Liu, C. and Lin, H. , 2004-08-14 "Bring Internet to Education: An Empirical Study of Different Policy Initiatives" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108792_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: As one of the popular and promising instructional technologies, Internet is playing a more and more important role in educational field all over the world. Bringing Internet into classrooms is encouraged in many countries; however, their policy initiatives to achieve this vary. The present paper is an empirical and multi-nation exploratory study, trying to explore different policy initiatives taken by different countries to enable school classrooms to have access to Internet. The study is based on a broad survey on the policy initiatives concerning classroom Internet in four countries and regions: the United States, China, Taiwan and Japan. The choice of these four countries is based on our personal interest, socioeconomic and political factors. For each country and region, three research questions are explored and analyzed: (1) Evaluation of the policy----Merits and criticism of such a policy; (2) Administration features of the policy----How to implement such a policy; (3) Rational for the policy----Why should we have such a policy and how is it made? Through a comparative analysis, we find that difference do exit in the policy approaches across the four countries; however, we believe that there is no universal “perfect” policy and we look at our paper as a preliminary and explorative one for further research.

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