September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

The Role and Value of Advanced Networking in

Teaching and Learning

Dale Alverson, University of New Mexico

Jackie Zelman, Miami-Dade College

Martin Seigel, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Vijay Kumar, MIT

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Extend, Amplify, Transform

• Beyond Videoconferencing– Collaboration– ”Repurposing" of advanced research apps and

databases for Education

• Usable at various levels of education,• Integrating research into education

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Goal

• How can the work in the Internet2 community be applied to gain convincing, substantive and qualitative transformations in teaching and learning at various levels of education?

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Agenda

• Presentations– Dale Alverson:– Jackie Zelman:– Martin Seigel

• Discussion– Opportunities; Challenges – Setting the T&L Agenda for I2

• BOF (Wednesday, 11:45)

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Worldwide Collaboration through Online Laboratories

“If you can’t come to the lab… the lab will come to you!”

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

iLab: worldwide collaborationNUS (Singapore, 13 time zones)

Since Fall 2000(20-30 students/yr)

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

iLabs at MIT

Shake table (Civil Eng., to be deployed early 2004)

Flagpole (Civil Eng., deployed 2000, inactive)

Polymer crystallization (Chem. E., deployed 2003)

Microelectronics device characterization (EECS, deployed 1998) Heat exchanger (Chem. E., deployed 2001)

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Local ServiceBroker

Lab Servers Clients

Campus network

Internet

Campus network

Local databases

iLab Shared Architecture

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

iLabs Value• Labs can be located in places inaccessible to students

• iLabs hold unique scaling characteristics: - round the clock usage; from anywhere in the world

- iLabs can be broadly shared: fundamental change in economics of the lab experience

– Order-of-magnitude more laboratory experiences available to students

– Can afford sophisticated labs involving:

advanced instrumentation; rare materials; unreachable locations

• iLabs embedded inside rich educational platforms containing visualization tools, simulations, data processing remote collaboration and tutoring

• iLabs will spawn communities of learners to share hardware and educational content

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Educational Value Proposition

• Proximities– First Hand; Learner-Teacher; Research-

Teaching

• Choice– time, location, modality

• Active Learning– Experience; Project based; Collaborative

September 28, 2004 Internet 2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting

Agenda

• Presentations– Dale Alverson:– Jackie Zelman:– Martin Seigel

• Discussion– Opportunities; Challenges – Setting the T&L Agenda for I2

• BOF (Wednesday, 11:45)