Peter Drucker says that higher education may become America's largest export to the People's Republic of China. Brent Harmon of Television New Zealand Ltd. expects to see 2,000 educational TV channels by the year 2000. [Satellite News, 5/31/93. EDUPAGE, 6/3/93.]

Five universities in three countries recently held a "virtual design studio" via the internet and conference calls. Eighty students at Washington University, MIT, Harvard, UHong Kong, and UBritish Columbia spent three weeks creating and sharing plans for infill housing in an existing Chinese village. CAD programs were used for renderings, animations, and walk-throughs. "Mind expanding." Expect technical glitches, of course, but "You'll learn a hell of a lot more about a hell of a lot." [Maximillian Garcia (max@city.arch.wustl.edu), sci.virtual-worlds, 6/21/93. Bill Park.]

Peter Arien's list of Computer Assisted Learning journals mentions 93 print and electronic journals -- including the Journal of AI in Education. FTP file readme.txt from ccq.kuleuven.ac.be, post a "send journals txt" message to listserv@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be, or access "Education/CompEdu/Computer Assisted Learning Journal List" on the gopher there. [laaaa43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be, net- happenings, 7/7/93.]

The Higher Education Resources and Opportunities (HERO) database provides free information on scholarships, grants, fellowships, conferences, faculty and student development, research opportunities, partnership initiatives, and other opportunities for minorities and women. Telnet to fedix.fie.com (192.111.228.33), log in as "new", and select 3 on the main menu. All colleges and universities are invited to announce programs, to be updated monthly or quarterly. Call (301) 975-0103 for information. [Peter Scott (aa375@freenet.carleton.ca), HYTEL-L, 7/11/93. net-happenings.]

Chemistry Information is a new electronic reference source designed to answer frequent questions by students in chemistry- related disciplines. It lists appropriate reference sources for nomenclature, compound identification, properties, structure determination, toxicity, synthesis, and registry numbers. Use binary FTP to get read.me from pub/chemras on ucssun1.sdsu.edu. >From Katalin Harkanyi (harkanyi@ucssun1.sdsu.edu), but contact Robert Carande (carande@ucssun1.sdsu.edu) for help after 7/31. [PACS-L, 6/30/93.]

Apple has announced a Mac LC 520 multimedia computer, available to schools in the US and to the public in Canada and Japan. It comes with a 14" color display, microphone, stereo sound, headphone jack, CD ROM driver, and FDHD drive able to read Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2, and ProDOS disks. [Tim Finin, 7/1/93.] (A 14" monitor is the same as a 13" monitor. Apple gave in to the way PC screens are measured by tube size rather than display size.)