1. FEEDBACK SESSION:
EXPLORING VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

2. Goals Programs initially impacted/surveyed: MPS Informatics MPSA
MPSEI,
MS GSS,
BSIT,
BSA,
M.Ed Learning Analytics*
To support Academic Plans of University 2025 and build excellence within the CPS Analytics & Enterprise Intelligence Domain
To enable “Just-for-you” learning, and learning from Anytime, Anywhere, with Anyone
To improve the quality of curriculum offering through IT innovation
To grow and stay on top with strong technical support for STEM programs and other programs who increasingly adopt new technologies  at CPS (e.g. CMN, MS PM, MS DM)
*have advanced computing needs also met by this effort but outside within another organizational domain at CPS
OBJECTIVES
To establish a system that has administrative computing support for teaching
To enable students a hands-on training environment
To fulfill software/tool needs requested by programs
To build an infrastructure, Integrated Computing Environment that supports the needs of coding/ programming courses or courses that need advanced technology platforms as well as human resource support

3. “ICE” Concept Integrated Computing Environment Problems
Virtual Labs
Browser based VM (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
Specialized software for skill building (HubSpot for CMN )
Providing required tools and training materials  within labs
Problems
Software / tools are not available
No computing support for teaching & learning at CPS
Tracking computational work progress
Taking class time to setup environment
Students can’t work collaboratively
Limited physical labs
Inconsistent approaches - instructor driven
Integrated
Computing
Environment
Campus Labs and Servers
Computer classroom management (Snell Library,  downtown Boston)
Servers (GSS)
Computing Resources
NEU licensed software pool
CPS licensed software
Free or open source software
Teaching & Learning Support
Account management
Help Desk
Teaching Assistants

4. Software tools/needs Informatics Oracle Live SQL Java, JavaScript
CSS, PHP, C++
AWS Architecture Lab
Security tools (IBM, etc.)
Hacking tools
Invisionm, Sketch, Balsamiq
Analytics R, Python,Tableau
MySQL Workbench
Jupyter Notebooks
Google Big Query
AWS Redshift & AWS RDS
Qlik
SPSS statistic & SPSS Modeler
Project Management
Trell, Jira
MS Project
Minitab
Balsamiq
Digital Media
Brackets/Subline Text
Maya
Adobe Creative Cloud
Balsamiq, Invasion
Logic Pro Audio
Audacity
Premiere Pro/After Effects
Photoshop/Illustrator/Sketch
Geospatial Services
ArcGIS, QGIS,
ArcGIS Extensions
Spatial Analyst, Boundless
Python (2.7) in & outside of ArcGIS Server 
GeoServer & LAMP stack 
(run on private LINODE server) ArcGIS Online 
Northeastern Carto organization 

5. Integrated Computing Environment (ICE) Project Timeline HIGHLIGHTS
Capstone Course begins work
Virtual lab proposal submitted/approved
Pilots begin
Inventory, surveying
Virtual Lab Solution Work group forms
Fall term 2019 start
Implementing initial elements, continued discovery
Nov 7
Dec 20
2018
August
September -December
January - March
April - June
July - August
Fall -December
2019
Today
6 days
TA pilot
17 days
Vocareum pilot
AWS + Azure pilots
Inventory of Resources, TA survey
24 days
Survey for AWS, Azure experience
16 days
Surveys Analysis, TA focus groups
25 days
Capstone course – Portal Design, Analysis
Protoype ICE?
ITS, TS, ATS, OEL, CPS Workgroup forms
Tool Demos, on going discovery, implementation