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Stephen Downes

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Interesting item from Syllabus (though sponsored by HP, so read with the appropriate grain of salt) discussing the evolution of wireless access on campus. In some ways a bit dated (for example, discussing the 'current' 802.11b standard) and a bit wide-eyed (for example, observing that students will access the net from unusual places) but still a good way to catch some of the promise wireless brings to educational computing. Of course, since we can expect wireless to be pervasive throughout the community, the article doesn't answer a key question: why would a student travel to campus to access wirelessly when he or she could do it from the Starbucks downtown?

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