Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project

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AdvancedInternet Satellite Extension Project

• Janet Poley

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Digital Inclusion
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Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of
Opportunity

• Inner cities and isolated rural areas
• Lack of infrastructure in poor neighborhoods
• Lack of investment leads to fewer economic
  opportunities

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Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of
Opportunity

• Relevant content
• Social, cultural and professional activities
  online

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The Engaged University

• Outreach Extension Important
• Meeting Lifelong Learning Needs
• Development of Skilled Workforce
• New Partnerships/Relationships with Private
  Sector
• Knowledge Networks -Economic Engine

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Broadband Access to All

• Rural and Remote Areas
• Learning Centers
• Historically Black Colleges Universities
• Tribal Colleges
• Reaching Out to Overcome Distance

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Technology Access Necessary - Not Sufficient

• Applications
• Learning Modules/Objects
• Digital Libraries
• Asynchronous/Synchronous Communication
• Simulations
• Virtual Reality
• Teleimmersion

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New Teaching and Learning Models

• Four generations
• Correspondence study
• Multi-media with print
• Online learning
• Internet2 applications

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New Research Models Beyond Comparative Studies

• No significant difference
• Instructional design and operational environment
• Media attribute theory

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Attribute Analysis (Smith Dillion 1999)
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Blurring Research/Education

• Collaboratories/Collaborative Worktools
• Grand/Global Experiments
• Participatory Research
• Modeling
• Instruments
• New Creative Conceptualizations

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Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project

• 3 year, NSF
• 4 million
• Partnership
• ADEC, Internet 2 Universities, smaller and
  minority serving institutions, rural and remote
  learners
• Tachyon.Network
• CAIDA, NLANR

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Project Goals

• Explore and Evaluate
• satellite technology to deliver Internet to
  underserved audiences and
• deployment and integration of distance education
  applications.

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Research objectives include

• pretty good Internet?
• requirements for satellite-based IP network
• QOS issues per last mile
• network performance measurements
• teaching and learning applications
• business model

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Tachyon.net
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Institutions

• North Carolina State/AT Universities
• University of Maryland
• University of Illinois
• University of Nebraska
• University of California
• Washington State University

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References

• ADEC/Tachyon Test Server
• http//63.103.96.228/
• Tachyon General Testing User Log
• http//63.103.96.228/test
• Main Street Economist - Center for the Study of
  Rural America FRB of Kansas City
• http//kc.frb.org/RuralCenter/mainstreet/MainStMai
  n.htm
• Business 2.0 Milking the Netfor all its worth
• http//www.business2.com/content/channels/technolo
  gy/2000/06/13/12863