Higher Education Accessing the Future

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Higher Education Accessing the Future

• Jan I. Fox
• VP for Information Technology/CIO
• Marshall University

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Distance Education inWest Virginia

• Overview
• Our Audience
• Responding to Our Audience
• Modes of Delivery

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MU Learning Communities

• We are socially inclusive and actively pursue
  opportunities to ensure that all our members are
  part of our learning communities
• We view information technologies. including
  Internet accessible interactive multimedia
  technologies, as tools for enriching learning by
  tailoring instruction to societal,
  organizational, and individual needs.
• We value regional and global interconnections and
  cultural links for expanding access and
  opportunity to educational resources regardless
  of format and/or location.
• We provide flexible learning programs available
  to address all students' needs.

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MU Learning Communities

• We will continue to actively implement a
  technical, social and intellectual infrastructure
  that ensures equity of access to learning,
  information, and information technologies while
  recognizing that investments in learning
  contribute to overall competitiveness and the
  economic and social well-being of the nation.
• We will continue to support the educational
  demands of knowledge workers. This includes
  restructuring library resources, administrative
  systems, networks, policy, etc. to meet the needs
  of our current and future populations

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Distance Distributed Learning Defined

• Distance Education is a process that connects
  learners with a system of distributed learning
  resources designed to meet the educational needs
  of a learner.
• This instructional delivery system is
  characterized by the separation of time and/or
  space between instructor and learner, among
  learners, and/or between learners and learning
  resources.
• One or more media provides for interactions
  between these participants.
• Distance Learning can most easily be understood
  when the teaching and learning process is viewed
  from a time and place perspective.

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Distance Learning Quadrants
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Concepts Industrial Age vs. Information
Age

• Grade Levels
• Covering the Content
• Norm-referenced
• Non-authentic
• Group-based content
• Adversarial
• Classrooms
• Teacher
• Rote Memorization
• Books

• Continuous Progress
• Outcomes-based Learning
• Individualized Testing
• Performance-based Assessment
• Personal Learning Plans
• Cooperative Learning
• Learning Centers Virtual Communities
• Coach/Facilitator
• Creative Critical Thinking
• Multimedia Technologies

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Our Audiences

• K-12
• Undergraduate/Community College
• Graduate Students
• Seniors
• Health Care
• Workforce Development
• Partnering

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Role of Technology

• Allows the separation of instructor and learner
• Can be a cognitive tool
• Tool that enhances powers of thinking,
  problem-solving, learning
• Written language, mathematical notation,
  scientific method are others
• Frames what is possible

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Interactive Technologies

• Email, Chat
• Threaded Discussion
• Online Courses
• Interactive Video Satellite, ATM, Internet-II ,
  Streaming, Cached
• Tools, Simulations

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K12 Resources
3D Insects
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Seven Driving Principles of the New Age in
Education

• Technologyis here to stay. From student
  motivation to professional development, for the
  first time in history, technology is affecting
  every aspect of education.
• Contentis key. Top-quality, interactive,
  Web-based learning programs are essential to
  ensuring that all students -- children and adults
  -- can receive the best educational content
  anytime, anywhere.
• Distancehas disappeared. Now educators and
  students can connect instantly with peers and
  experts all over the globe.
• Timeis crumbling. In a world of instantaneous
  connection, there is a high value on the ability
  to teach and learn in real time.

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Seven Driving Principles of the New Age in
Education

• Communityis power. The strength of a worldwide
  education community is the prime factor driving
  the New Age in Education.
• Standardsare rising. The rapidly growing K-12
  standards movement is leading to a pronounced
  impact on equity in education.
• Expectationsare increasing. Students and parents
  expect Web-based content, online digital
  libraries, and mainly, a league of educators
  prepared to use the best of these technologies to
  teach our children.

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Undergraduate/Community College

• Nursing
• Business
• Compressed Video Courses
• Online Business Degree
• Community College
• Web and CBT Statewide IT Curriculum
• Web Based General Education
• Internet Specialization
• SatNet
• HEITV

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Graduate Studies

• Special Education
• Teacher Training
• Business
• Education Leadership Online Degree
• Counseling
• Technology Management

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Health Care

• Rural Health Sites - WVRHEP
• Learning Resource Centers (19 in rural
  clinics/hospitals)
• CME, Diagnostic Support, Drug Information,
  Clinical cases
• Patients
• Community Wellness
• Forensics Training
• Compressed Video
• RuralNet
• Interactive Patient
• Telemedicine
• Regional Jails and Prisons

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New Economy
Innovation
Infrastructure
Technology
Digitization
Workforce
Collaboration
Digital Economy
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HIGHER INCOMES LINK TO EDUCATION
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The Knowledge Explosion Growth of Scientific
Knowledge to the Year 2000
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Fortune Chart/Source Bruce Merrifield, Wharton
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Workforce Development and Training
D C E Job
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Workforce Development

• Computer Based Training via the Internet
• Higher Education Statewide Contract
• Skill-based Learning
• Statewide Community College Information
  Technology Curriculum
• Cisco Academies
• Robert C. Byrd Flexible Manufacturing

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Partnering

• K-12
• Dual Credit
• Web Based IT Curriculum
• College Credit
• Video Linkages (Spring Valley High School)
• Cisco Networking Academies
• Microsoft Seniors Program
• Southern Regional Electronic Campus of SREB
• Advantage Valley for Economic Development

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Online Computer Based Training (CBT)
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Responding to Our Audience

• Location of Audience
• Colleges and Universities
• Home
• Library (school and public)
• Work
• Centers
• Schools
• Multiple Sites
• Skill Base of Audience
• Graduate
• Workforce
• Resources
• Library
• Online Book Store
• Web and Telephone Registration

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Changing the Student Service Model

• Web Access to Resources
• Registration
• Financial Aid
• Bookstore
• Student Records (Banner SIS Web)
• Advising (Banner Faculty Web)
• Library
• Virtua Web Multimedia OPAC
• Electronic Subscriptions
• Electronic Document Delivery

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LATA Defined

• LATA (Local Access and Transport Area) is a term
  in the U.S. for a geographic area covered by one
  or more local telephone companies, which are
  legally referred to as Local Exchange Carriers
  (LEC)
• A connection between two local exchanges within
  the LATA is referred to as intraLATA.
• A connection between a carrier in one LATA to a
  carrier in another LATA is referred to as
  interLATA.
• InterLATA is long-distance service. The current
  rules for permitting a company to provide
  intraLATA or interLATA service (or both) are
  based on the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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What Are the Issue?

• Technical
• Financial

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Exchange Carriers

• Local eXchange Carriers (examples)
• Bell Atlantic West Virginia
• Citizens Telecom
• Citizens Mountain State
• Armstrong
• Hardy Telephone Company
• War Telephone Company
• Inter eXchange Carrier (examples)
• ATT
• MCI
• Sprint

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Bell Atlantic Intra LATA ATM Pricing
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LATA Costs
 
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Bandwidth
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Possible Solutions
Central FundingBuild Fiber Link Across
LATAWireless Solution Microwave Change in
IXC Rules
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Modes of Delivery

• Web/Internet/E-mail
• Compressed Video
• Satellite
• Public Television
• Combination of Modes

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MU Online Courses

• E-Course
• 60 Currently Developed
• 50 in Development
• Programs in General Education, Internet
  Specialization, Business, Educational Leadership
• 31 in SREC Spring 2000 (25 in Fall 1999)
• WebCT Courses
• 400 Currently Developed
• 2000 Students

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Online Courses

• E-Courses T-Courses, WebCT Web-based IT
  Curriculum CBT
• Over 5,600 students enrolled in courses the
  utilize WebCT
• E-courses - totally Asynchronous (Anytime,
  Anywhere, Anyplace)
• T-Course - Content totally Online, but 20 of
  time synchrounus interactions (chatroom at 800
  pm on Mondays, classroom meeting, video link
  meeting)
• SREC Participation in SREC (31 courses for Spring
  2000)
• Flashlight Technology Assessment (Student
  Inventory, Faculty Gap Analysis, Cost Model)

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Benefits to Students

• The Electronic Campus increases students options
  dramatically. Courses not previously available
  where a student lives or at a time that was
  convenient may in fact now be available. Students
  in the most remote areas will have access to
  courses and programs that have not been readily
  available.
• Students will have the confidence of knowing that
  the courses offered via the Electronic Campus are
  pledged to follow the Principles of Good
  Practice.
• Students will be able to compare courses, methods
  of instruction, how courses are delivered and
  costs.
• The Electronic Campus will provide a central
  point of information and an "orderly electronic
  marketplace amidst the chaos of a booming
  Internet."

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Benefits to States

• The Electronic Campus will provide the
  opportunity for more education for more citizens.
  The Electronic campus will increase access for
  students to needed information on educational
  courses and programs.
• The Electronic Campus could allow states, through
  cooperative development, to jointly share in
  creating needed courses and programs - the
  "electronic wheel" will not have to be reinvented
  each time.
• Areas previously isolated from the best of
  educational opportunities will no longer be cut
  off because of geography.
• Quality educational programs available in any
  SREB state can be just as accessible to the
  students in all SREB states.
• The Electronic Campus will provide increased
  economic development opportunities for all SREB
  states. Southern Regional Education Board states
  involved are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
  Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
  Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South
  Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West
  Virginia.

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One Room School 2000Desktop Video
H.323
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Marshall University One Room School -
2000Network Architecture
IntraNet Distributed Distance Network
(IDDEN)
ATM North
Juvenile Center
Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant
WVGC Charleston
Internet
ATM South
Univ. of Charleston
Marshall University
Marshall University
Huntington
LATA
Huntington
Wayne
Logan
Beckley
ATM
Bell Atlantic WV 2001 ATM Cloud
Vocational Ed Site
Williamson
Tier 1 OC-3 (155Mb/s)
ATM
Tier 2 DS-3 (45Mb/s)
Tier 3 DS-1 (1.54Mb/s)
T1
Logan
Beckley
Learning Cluster
Lab
Gilbert
MUGC South Charleston
Information Node
Hub
Bluefield
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Compressed Video via ATM

• These are regular, live, on-campus courses
  delivered to several sites in WV which feature
  interactive two-way video and audio communication
  via high speed telephone lines. Special
  classrooms have been constructed to provide
  state of the art facilities.
• Locations
• Huntington (5 classrooms)
• South Charleston (2 plus 1 in Spring)
• Point Pleasant (2 classrooms)
• Beckley
• Gilbert
• SWVCTC
• 1800 Students Annually

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Origination Classrooms Feature

• Automated Control System (AMX)
• Instructor Student Cameras
• Installed Computer /or Laptop Connection
• VCR
• Document Camera
• White Boards (2 Rooms)
• Light Pen
• Printers, Fax Machines
• Telephones

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Larry Joe Harless Community Center at Gilbert, WV

• Connected via ATM
• Computer Lab
• Web-based Courses
• Workforce Development
• Compressed Video
• Desktop Video (H.323)

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Connect to SWVCTC

• Logan 2 classrooms
• Williamson -- 2 classrooms
• Saulsville
• Madison
• Hamlin
• Pettus

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MU RegionalCenters
Point Pleasant
Teays Valley
HUNTINGTON
SOUTH CHARLESTON
Logan
Beckley
Williamson
Bluefield
Gilbert
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Satellite Delivery

• SatNet - Satellite Network of West Virginia,
  allows academic departments to both originate
  graduate and undergraduate courses for the
  network and receive courses from other
  institutions. Course delivery features live
  one-way videoand two-way telephonecommunications
  . Some courses include E-mail, WebCT and other
  Internet components.

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Satellite Network of WV

• Consortium of 16 Public Institutions
• 35 Graduate Undergraduate Courses Annually
• 1500 Students Annual SatNet students
• MU and MUGC Produce Courses for the Network
• One-way Video and Two-way Audio
• 400 Potential Receive Sites
• Internet Features with WebCT

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HEITV

• West Virginia Higher Education Instruction
  Television consortium, Academic departments offer
  several courses each semester via public
  television stations in West Virginia. Students
  view the courses at home and then meet on campus
  a few times each semester for discussions and
  examinations.
• Statistics
• 18 Courses per Year
• Enrollment 1600-1800 per year

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MU Resources

• Information Technology
• Computing Serives
• ITV
• SatNet
• Library
• Instructional Technology
• MUOnline for students and faculty
• Links for all online courses
• E-Course Policy
• Resources

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Other Online Resources

• Annenbergs Top 10 Distance Learning Resources
  http//www.learner.org/edtech/distlearn/topten.htm
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• Distance Ed at a Glance http//www.uidaho.edu/evo/
  distglan.html

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Presentation Available atwww.marshall.edu/itc/k
12/k12distance.htm