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 collaboration NUS (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 Service Broker 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)