Collaborative Online Studio Initiative COSI

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Collaborative Online Studio Initiative (COSI)
Aaron Tan School of Information Technology
Electrical Engineering, The University of
Queensland

• Research Interests
• Collaboration Technologies
• Interaction Design
• Mobile Technologies

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A Project Im Interested InCOSI

• Studio-based teaching is well established in
  physics, architecture and the arts, and has been
  used in ICT at the University of Queensland since
  1999 as part of the Information Environments
  programme.
• Collaborative Online Studio Initiative (COSI)
  focuses on interaction and infrastructure for
  collaborative online learning in engineering, IT
  and multimedia courses.
• COSI is staffed by Aaron Tan Ralf Muhlberger.

http//www.itee.uq.edu.au/cosi/
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COSI COSI the Education Cloud

• COSI is looking at desktop tool usage such as
  Google Docs, CiteULike, Delicious (formerly
  del.icio.us), Wikis, etc.
• For COSI the Education Cloud, we are looking
  at the opportunities existing wireless networks
  covering most University campuses provide for
  mobile devices such as iPod Touch/iPhone
  technologies.
• COSI is supported by a Teaching and Learning
  grant
• from the Faculty of Engineering, Physical
  Sciences and
• Architecture _at_ UQ.

http//www.itee.uq.edu.au/cosi/
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Deliverables Implications

• Evaluation report on existing technologies in an
  education context with respect to cloud
  computing and the iPod Touch/iPhone
• Configured team collaboration environments iPod
  Touch/iPhone kits

• How to set-up collaborative technologies
  (including mobile) for virtual teams
• Inform design of existing (or missing)
  technologies for collaboration
• Next generation practitioners entering the
  workplace will have online collaboration
  skills/knowledge

http//www.itee.uq.edu.au/cosi/