PROMISING CYBER LEARNING PRACTICES CAPITALIZING ON CENIC BACKBONE

Presenters:Dr. Jay Brockman, Notre DameGlen Kuck, San Bernardino CCDGeorge Ward, CSU Digital MarketplaceStephanie Couch, K20 CETC/CENIC

Fostering Learning in a Networked World – NSF Task Force Report

5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Help build a vibrant cyberlearning field by promoting cross-disciplinary communities of cyberlearning researchers and practitioners including technologists, educators, domain scientists, and social scientists.

5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

2. Instill a “platform perspective”—shared, interoperable designs of hardware, software, and services—into NSF’s cyberlearning activities.

3. Emphasize the transformative power of information and communications technology for learning, from K to grey. Technologies that allow interaction with scientific data, visualizations, remote and virtual laboratories.....

5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

4. Adopt programs and policies to promote open educational resources.

5. Take responsibility for sustaining NSF-sponsored cyberlearning innovations. Educational materials and learning innovations need to flourish beyond the funding of a grant.

MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/index.jsp

IntroEngineering.org: A Structured Wiki Community for

Instructors of First-Year Engineering Courses

Jay BrockmanAssociate Dean of Engineering

University of Notre Dame

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EduStream.org

Glen Kuck, Ed.D. - Executive DirectorDistributed Education and Technology

ServicesSan Bernardino Community College

District

Background

• Community Colleges and Telecourses– Concerns with academic rigor

– Value of Telecourses in expanding DE programs; providing rich content; ability to demonstrate difficult to explain concepts; catering to visual learners…

– Emerging Trends

Emerging Trends

• 2002 Average Class Size– Telecourse 54.9– Online 26.6

2007 Average Class Size– Telecourse 29.6– Online 30.7

• Telecourse providers are losing membership

• Colleges want content that they can delivery anyway, anytime, and anywhere

Background• “The Idea” – Why don’t we stream it and

make it part of an online course? – Yes, there are other providers already out there,

but….

• Concerns/Considerations:– Cost to students– ADA Compliance– Desire to provide access to additional content for:

• Faculty and Professional Development, • Economic/Workforce Development, etc.

Flash Playback

Environment

Windows Media

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(moving to H.264)

Digital Broadcast

Environment

Digital Content Repository,

SBCCD’s Solution…

Key Features

• Each institution has its own site administrator

• All proprietary content is ADA compliant

• Ability to upload practically any file format

• Agnostic to any CMS

Key Features

• Allows intra and inter-institutional collaboration

• Potential use is limited only by creativity– Marketing– Sports, graduations, other events– Professional Development– Workforce and Economic Development– Orientations

Application Overview

• http://www.edustream.org

• http://tlearnvideo.dcccd.edu

Ensuring Quality Experiences• Initial Planning

– Scalable and Customizable Infrastructure• GigE Backbone (additional fiber)• SAN and Server Configurations

– Complete redundancy (failover and back-up)• Serves two purposes: fail-over and disaster recovery

– Technical Expertise and 24/7 Monitoring

Where are we today?• Application:

– Have mirrored meta-tagging standards with Merlot, finalizing with Digital Marketplace

– Completed pilot phase

– Beginning roll-out at rate of four institutions per month

Where are we today?

– 47 Institutions across 10 states

– Waiting list of 24 California Community Colleges

– Negotiating rates with content providers to provide free access to all California Community Colleges

Where are we today?

– Accounting– Micro and

Macroeconomics – General Business– English– Health

– History – Nutrition– Physical Science– Sociology– US Government

• Currently have 3000 clips in various subject areas including:

Thank You

Contact:

Glen Kuck, Ed.D. - Executive DirectorDistributed Education and Technology Services

San Bernardino Community College District(909)384-4325

gkuck@sbccd.edu

Digital Marketplace Project& Academic Technology eFramework

George WardLead ArchitectAcademic Technology ServicesCalifornia State University

Digital Marketplace Defined

Enable the effective discovery and distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of CSU’s mission to provide students with access to a high-quality education.

Key Objectives of Digital Marketplace:– Choice – Provide an efficient “one-stop shopping”

service with a variety of instructional materials necessary to succeed academically.

– Affordability – Reduce the cost of instructional materials to students. Reduce the time and total cost of education for the institution.

– Accessibility – Ease of access to instructional materials for all students.

Academic eFramework

CSU eFramework is designed to create a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable scalable and reusable common core services that are essential for CSU’s programs. These common services will be reused across projects that have like functionality needs.

The first application of these services will be the Digital Marketplace with the next projects being considered are Student Academic Planning and Math remediation

Digital Marketplace Village

Local View

•Individual goals served•Sale of goods and services products•Amazon.com model

Town Council

City Managers & Professional Staff

Department Store

• eBay.com model•Direct sales between producers and customers•Peer to peer transactions

•Peer to peer/public•MERLOT free exchange

•Serves the community good •Some free services to public•ID authentication for privileges (Library Card)•CSU Electronic Core Collection•MERLOT peer review collection; services

Library

Farmers Market

Community Park

•Formality•Structure•Standards•Regulations

Warranty & implied quality assurance

Services Oriented Architecture

CSU SOA Implementation

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Transaction Service Submission Service

Clearing Service

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Data Bases Data Base Layer

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Digital Marketplace Integration Flows

More Information On Digital Marketplace

http://21st-digitalmarketplace.com/

George Ward

gward@calstate.edu