Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, April 23, 2002

http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=50926&pub=tt&categoryid=828

More Chinese hope to learn, work on home PCs-study
Reuters staff

More Chinese are showing interest in using computers at home for education or work, but online shopping or e-commerce is proving slow to catch on, according to a recent survey by market research group AC Nielsen. In the past, getting onto the Internet to use e-mail, download music and play games were the top services driving Chinese to buy PCs, according to the study, which questioned 8,000 Internet users in Asia Pacific countries including China.... One third of Chinese planning to buy a PC said they hoped to use it for education, compared to 23 percent of those who already owned a PC, the report said....

 



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