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Science education goes on-line with PSInet™

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People Sharing Information Network™ (PSInet™) is a computer conferencing system that has supported the wide-area computer communications needs of science and mathematics educators, students, and administrators throughout the nation since 1985. This article contains several examples of actual PSInet use, as well as a description of how the system works, how users interact with it, and its advantages. The paper ends with a brief vision of how PSInet may be used with international data highways such as NSFnet.

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  1. IBM Scientific Center, Palo Alto, California

    Paul J. Friedl

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People Sharing Information Network™ and PSInet™ are trademarks of the IBM Corporation.

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Friedl, P.J. Science education goes on-line with PSInet™ . J Sci Educ Technol 1, 135–146 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00694836

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