July 29, 1994 Contact: Jennifer McNulty (408/459-2495)

EDITOR'S ADVISORY

UC SANTA CRUZ HOSTS SYLLABUS '94, A CONFERENCE SHOWCASING HIGHER-EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Reporters are invited to cover this national conference that will include demonstrations of state-of-the-art multimedia tools available for use in higher education. For more information or for a detailed agenda, please call the UCSC Office of Public Information at (408) 459-2495.

What: A conference on technology that will showcase the latest computer technology for higher education, including demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and discussion sections. Reporters can see what educators have dubbed the future of education at both the K-12 and university level, including multimedia tools that integrate text, images, sound, and video information and allow users to move quickly--typically with the click of a computer mouse--from one media to another; quantitative and visualization tools that are used to analyze large bodies of data and put it in easy-to-grasp graphic or moving-animation formats; and presentation tools that help educators prepare data for projection and lecture presentations.

Who: Technology experts from higher education will demonstrate their own developments, and hands-on workshops in well-equipped labs will allow participants to work with a range of tools, including the Internet.

When: August 14-17, 1994

Where: University of California, Santa Cruz

Summary: Colleges and universities will invest more than $7 billion in technology in 1994. Syllabus '94 will offer faculty, administrators, and technology staff an opportunity to see and work with the latest tools available for higher education. The conference is cosponsored by the Board of Studies in Education at UC Santa Cruz and Syllabus Press, the Sunnyvale-based publisher of Syllabus magazine. The magazine is read by 200,000 educators worldwide who rely on it to keep abreast of the latest developments in higher- education technology. The conference is part of a growing effort to form partnerships between the university and the private sector as UCSC and the Monterey Bay region emerge as a center of excellence in science, technology, and education. "Multimedia technology is an important tool for improving science education at both the university and the K-12 levels," says Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education at UCSC. "This conference will highlight the latest technology that's available."

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