Title: ADEC May 3, 2006
1 New Directions in Land Grant Distance Education
Programsat Kentucky State University
Dr. E. Terry Magel, Director, Continuing and
Distance Education
2Small Campus Extended Reach
3Overview
- Internet Classes
- Interactive Television Facilities
- Satellite Uplink Vehicle
- Mobile Classroom
- Environmental Education Vehicle
- Geographic Information Systems Center
4Unusual Classroom Internet Cafe
- When Dr. Boris Gomelsky
- taught Fish Genetics online
- in Fall 2003, one Nigerian
- student completed the online course from the
Internet Café in Lagos, Nigeria. He did not have
a computer at work nor at home but found the café
to be just the ticket as long as he kept buying
the java.
5Internet ClassesGrowth Chart
6Interactive Television
7ITV Thesis Defense
- A MS student in Aquaculture defended his thesis
from the University of the Virgin Islands where
he recently got a teaching job. Faculty and
students at KSU asked him questions about his
research project and its results as he
successfully defended his thesis saving time,
money - and energy.
8Russian Visitors
9ITV/Internet
- A lecture to Russian Visitors to the
Aquaculture Facilities in 2004 was captured on
ITV and then uploaded to the KSU aquaculture
website. - These foreign guests were amazed to
synchronously see themselves on the site during
the lecture. Colleagues in Russia were also able
to view them. -
10New Mobile Classroom
11Mobile Classroom Interior
12Satellite Uplink Vehicle
13Remote Audio/Video Access
14Satellite Uplink Functions
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- On site field demonstration video production
- Real time broadcasts from
- Environmental Education Center to campus ITV
sites - Aquaculture production sites to campus via
satellite - Remote audio conferencing via telephone
- State Homeland Security Broadcasting
- Uplink news/sports info with CBS,ABC,ESPN
15Environmental Education Center
16Environmental Education Center
- 300 Acres Kentucky Wild Lands
- Pleasureville, Kentucky
- 1.6 acre pond
- Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund
- Full Time Land Grant Natural Resources Educator
- Extensive walking trails
- Sites for anthropology, aquatic sciences,
- forestry, biology, and science education.
17Environmental Education Mobile Classroom
18Faces of Excitement in the Exploration of Science
19Mobile Lab Visit Student Responses First Grade
- Thank you for showing us Snappy the turtle.
Snappy eats fish. He allsow has no teeth. He has
a bek instead of - teeth. He walks sloe.
- Thank you for bringng the fish. We really liked
petting it. We learned a lot abut fish skools. - Thanks. Love, Caitlin.
20Mobile Lab School VisitsSpecial Student in West
Liberty, KY
- When Wes Stilwell, Environmental Education
Teacher, visited West Liberty Elementary, one of
his students was a visually impaired young girl.
Under his guidance, she was able to touch her
first toad, pet a young rabbit and hold her first
earthworm. For her, on that day, all the wonders
of nature opened up to her for the first time.
2115 stations 3.2 gigahertz 1gb memory Dual 19
screens
Dual Server KY GIS Data Center
GIS Research Training Center
22Geographic Information Systems Research and
Training Center
USDA Funded 2006-2008 Full ESRI software
site Undergraduate and Graduate GIS
Courses Aquaculture Department curriculum Authoriz
ed ESRI Instructor ESRI Authorized
Training Online GIS courses in preparation
23GIS inFacility ManagementProvided mapping and
data services for grant application to build
emergency shelters on campus and university
agriculture research farm
24GIS in Research SupportCorrelating insect
collection with Nature Preserve Management Units
25GIS inResearch SupportGIS used to design
paddocks of equal area for goat nutrition
researchRequirementPaddocks had to be of
equal area
26Kentucky State UniversityLearning Beyond
Boundaries