ATM

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One Room School ATM and the Learning Community
Jan I. Fox Arnold R. Miller Marshall University
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Why?
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Digital Revolutionis here
Computing
Consumer Electronics Digital TV
Mass Media
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Telecommunications
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Motivation for Change

• Cost - more students, less money
• Quality - higher education judged by whats
  learned, not whats taught
• Demographics - placebound adult students
  benefit most from asynchronous learning
• Opportunity - educational technology leverages
  faculty effectiveness and attracts a whole new
  group of students

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We face serious challenges

• Demands for quality, flexibility, access by
  students
• Competition from other universities
• Complexity of student needs (special programs
  services)
• Demands for service efficiency
• Requirement for I/T investment
• Student retention
• Administrative budgets/resources
• Public tolerance for higher education bureaucracy

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Institutions are searching for ways to transform
how they operate in order to survive and excel

• Deploy technology to gain competitive advantage
• Reengineer processes, redesign organizations and
  systems to maximize operational efficiency
• Remove boundaries between institution and
  community (service learning)
• Develop collaborative efforts
• partnerships with business and industry
• collaboration with other educational entities
  K-12, cc and higher education)
• Sub-contract functions that are not core
  competencies

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Improved student services delivery involves
innovative uses of information technology

• Electronic access to student records and grades
• Online registration, course status
• Electronic forms
• Digital library access
• E-mail
• Internet applications, WWW
• One card or Smart card for credit/debit
  transactions and authorization/access

• Voice registration/drop-add
• Voice response technology for
  access to student data
• Cable modems for home access to internet and
  LANs distance education
• EDI for transcripts

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Optimal Connection-oriented Network
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MUGC
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Drinko Library
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Community Integrated
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Community Integrated

• Public K-12 Schools
• ARSI
• RuralNet K12
• Dual Credit Program
• Business and Industry
• RCBI Centers
• Advantage Valley
• Alumni
• Health Care
• RuralNet Medical
• WVRHEP
• Regional Libraries
• MTI
• Courtroom of the Future

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Distance Learning at MU
Video Origination Classroom
Campus Network
Receiving Classroom
Off-Campus Delivery
Two-Way, Interactive Video Instruction
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Distance Education Classrooms
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Distance Education Classrooms

• 5 Currently on Campus
• 20 Port Multi Point Controller
• More Planned for New Library/Information Center
• Remote Sites Located Throughout the State
• Desktop Video IntraNet with Video Servers

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Instructional Television
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Instructional Television

• Courses offered by
• Satellite Network
• Standard Broadcast (PBS)
• Dedicated Cable Channel
• Compressed Video Teleconference
• Cable in Residence Halls
• Dedicated Residence Services Channels
• Dedicated Student Channel
• ED-NET

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East Coast gigaPOP Consortium
Regional Advanced Network Initiatives
Transcendence Inclusive Multivendor,
competitive Transformance Economically
Sustainable Integrated Voice, Data, Video Value
Added Resources
Southern Crossroads
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One Room School - 2000
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What Is The One Room School?

• The One Room School2000 project integrates
  existing education network infrastructures into a
  cost effective, scalable and expandable network
  that enhances existing network strategies while
  integrating the new Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  (ATM) network architecture. This will allow for
  the integration of multimedia technologies with
  current and emerging communications technologies
  for use in distance education.

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Principle Features

• An easy to use, low maintenance client
  workstation with custom software consolidating
  and simplifying the user interface
• A remotely maintained server environment that
  supplies traditional services to the cluster, but
  which are augmented to allow for the forward and
  store caching of the courseware, video, audio,
  and multimedia components
• High, intermediate, and low bandwidth ATM
  capabilities
• Video, audio, teleconferencing, and multimedia to
  the desktop

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Principle Features

• A transparent forward and store capability to
  optimize bandwidth used at lower WAN speeds
• Integration to existing teleconferencing
  equipment and facilities
• Video on demand from the local server when
  precached either by request or on schedule
• Client adaptable for use in the K-12, Vocational
  Technical, continuing education, and 2-year,
  4-year, graduate, and professional higher
  education environments.

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One Room School - 2000

• Gives a competitive edge to distance education
  for all areas throughout West Virginia by
  testing, evaluating and deploying advanced and
  developing information technology systems to
  provide a more cost effective use of financial
  resources allocated for telecommunications and
  enhanced access to information and instruction.
• The network is essential for the distribution of
  multimedia based distance education distribution
  due to its bandwidth capabilities and the methods
  by which it distributes multimedia elements such
  as sound and video.
• Provides for an Any-to-Any connection between
  Local Area Networks, student desktops,
  classrooms, presentation rooms, and the
  instructors desktop.

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Expected Outcomes

• Provide distance education opportunities for
  rural based students and non-traditional students
  by establishing spoke locations for two-way
  compressed video communications, integrating
  existing teleconferencing facilities, and include
  campus computer resources and Internet
  connections via the same communication line.
• All spoke locations originating from Marshall
  University will provide unique distance education
  possibilities by partnering with our connections
  to the Southern West Virginia Community College
  System, K-12 schools in our service area, the
  Mid-Ohio Valley Center in Point Pleasant, the
  Marshall University Graduate College, area
  hospitals, and libraries.

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Expected Outcomes

• Strengthen the existing Southern West Virginia
  Community College two-way video network in Logan,
  Williamson, Madison, and Pineville.
• Enhance interdisciplinary campus and rural teams
  at all hub and spoke locations. The video and
  data connectivity will strengthen our existing
  rural and campus initiatives and provide new
  Marshall community collaborative efforts.
• Provide a strong communication mechanism of video
  and computer conferencing for administrative
  meetings, reducing travel costs and providing a
  new information resource.
• Establish long-term community economic
  development, cost containment, and
  sustainability.

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What is the Benefit?

• This network differs from other networks in the
  state in that it supplies video directly to each
  individual workstation in a laboratory or
  computer facility. This will allow the network
  to grow by the number of workstations instead of
  costly distance education classrooms. Our
  current method of distribution allows us to
  provide only one class in our distance education
  classrooms at a time. The new network would
  allow us to offer as many classes as there are
  number of workstations in a lab at the same time.

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Network Benefits

• Integrate existing disparate networks and bundle
  existing telecommunication services
• Expand network capabilities
• Expand educational programs to southern West
  Virginia
• Prototype a secure ATM network
• Integrate diverse educational resources and
  courses
• Distribute library information resources
• Utilize centers for a multitude of community
  learning experiences

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Voice
Video
Data
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Workstation
E-Courses
Expert Witness
Two-Video Consults
X-rays
Community Information
Research
Libraries
Audio
Email
Lesson Plans
Desktop Video
Digital Videos
Internet
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OSI 7 Layer Network Model
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Political Layer
Religious Layer
Application Layer
Presentation Layer
Session Layer
Transport Layer
Network Layer
Data Link Layer
Physical Layer
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