JOURNAL: Education and Information Technologies
VOLUME: 01
ISSUE: 01
PAGES: 0005-0020

AUTHOR: Pedro Hepp, Ernesto Laval, Gerardo Mo‘nne, Miguel Ripoll

ADDRESS: Enlaces Project, La Frontera University, P.O. Box 380. E-mail: phepp@enlaces.ufro.cl, Temuco, Chile. Enlaces Project, La Frontera University, P.O. Box 380. E-mail: elaval@enlaces.ufro.cl, Temuco, Chile. Enlaces Project, La Frontera University, P.O. Box 380. E-mail: gmoenne@enlaces.ufro.cl, Temuco, Chile. Enlaces Project, La Frontera University, P.O. Box 380. E-mail: mripoll@enlaces.ufro.cl, Temuco, Chile

ABSTRACT: The use of networks in education is experiencing world-wide growth. Many schools have taken advantage of the reduction of price in modems, the emergence of electronic bulletin boards and world-wide web pages with educational content, and the availability of software for public participation in networks. Nevertheless, little information is available about the quality and quantity of existing network traffic; information that would allow organizations, network project administrators and supporters, to evaluate its impact, know its usage, evolution and projections. This paper presents some of the traffic monitoring mechanisms presently in use in a Chilean educational network (the Enlaces Project), together with examples of the information collected through these mechanisms.

KEYWORDS: elementary education, secondary education, electronic mail, internet networks