| Summary: | How impressive is Olduvai Gorge? For me, enough to remember for a lifetime. For Clive Gamble, who visited recently, far more than in any photograph. For generations of students, though, Olduvai is little more than a 'site' illustrated by photographs in an introductory textbook. How then do we get across the scale and importance of Olduvai? Jeanne Sept has addressed this in a CD which allows exploration of Olduvai from a number of different perspectives, including geology, history and animal life as well as the archaeology. Sept, based at Indiana University, was well placed to do this, as a palaeoanthropologist widely experienced not only in human origins research but in the range of African environments that are relevant to the background of hominisation. Indiana also has a long history of fostering electronic approaches to learning, establishing IHETS (Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication system as early as 1967 (a Conference at which Sept spoke; see also http://www.ind.net/). Not surprisingly, Indiana University has a Teaching and Learning Technologies Lab. which collaborated in producing the CD.
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