Motivation: Educational Value Proposition

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Motivation Educational Value Proposition

• Access to Quality Content
• Transformations in Form
• Traditional ?Virtual
• Transformations in Function
• Knowing ? Affecting and Changing
• A pedagogy of abundance
• Connected Continuous Community
• Impediments and Sustainability

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Pervasive Computing to Abundant Educational
Opportunity

• Vijay Kumar
• vkumar_at_mit.edu
• MIT
• CSG, Harvard, 9-22-04

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Worldwide Collaboration through Online
Laboratories
If you cant come to the lab the lab will come
to you!
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iLab worldwide collaboration
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iLabs at MIT
Flagpole (Civil Eng., deployed 2000, inactive)
Shake table (Civil Eng., to be deployed early
2004)
Polymer crystallization (Chem. E., deployed 2003)
Microelectronics device characterization (EECS,
deployed 1998)
Heat exchanger (Chem. E., deployed 2001)
STEF
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Value of iLabs

• Pedagogy (Opportunity Flexibility).
• iLabs create laboratory experiences in subjects
  that didnt have them before.
• iLabs enable laboratory experiments at most
  opportune moment in curriculum.
• iLabs allow students to perform experiments in
  pleasant environments at times of their choice
• iLabs allow students to work in a stop-and-go
  mode

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iLab impact on MIT students
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iLabs Value

• Labs can be located in places inaccessible to
  students
• iLabs hold unique scaling characteristics
• round the clock usage from anywhere in the world
• iLabs can be broadly shared fundamental change
  in economics of the lab experience
• Order-of-magnitude more laboratory experiences
  available to students
• Can afford sophisticated labs involving
• advanced instrumentation rare materials
  unreachable locations
• iLabs embedded inside rich educational platforms
  containing visualization tools, simulations, data
  processing remote collaboration and tutoring
• iLabs will spawn communities of learners to share
  hardware and educational content

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iLab Shared Architecture
Local Service Broker
Campus network
Internet
Lab Servers
Clients
Campus network
Local databases
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Field expedition to measure water quality in
Australia
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Robot World
Project based Collaborative engineering design

• Curriculum for design fundamentals
• Simulation tools
• On-line collaboration environments
• Peer-review assessment tools.

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Robot World
Principal Investigators Alex Slocum, Marty
Culpepper, John Williams

• Vision - project based learning for teaching
  engineering design leveraging Tablet PCs
• Tools
• PREP - Peer Review Evaluation Process tool
• Engineering Design Spread Sheets and MatLab
  simulations for detailed robot design
• Content
• Engineering Design Spread Sheets and MatLab
  Simualtions for detailed robot design. (See OCW
  or http//pergatory.mit.edu/2.007 )
• Slocum Book FUNdaMENTALs of Design Chapters 1-7
  (See OCW)
• Virtual Take Apart Documentation
• 2.000 How Things Work lecture set

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Gerald Schneider Rutledge Ellis-Behnke Jordan
Gilliland
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Next StepSay goodbye to backpacks !
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First Ph.D. Thesis defense using Tablet with live
connection from MIT to Hong Kong University 10-02
MIT 800pm
Hong Kong 800 am
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Active sketching with Magic Paper
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One-to-One Vision

• Transform Athena into a
• Collection of services to support student-owned
  computing and selected cross-department shared
  computing resources
• special-purpose computing facilities, shared
  file spaces, collaboration tools, and Application
  management

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One-to-One Computing Status
IS Customer Survey Spring 2003

• Laptop Educational Projects (4)
• Laptop loaner program
• Experiments in tablet PCs, and handhelds
• Leveraging commodity computing and individual
  ownership
• Providing services and software for machines not
  owned by MIT
• Managing licenses and distribution of DLC owned
  software
• Managed Windows,
• Open AFS client for Linux

Continuation of trend toward student laptop
ownership
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One-to-One Computing Issues

• Limited penetration of laptops in curriculum
• Standard suite of software needed
• Especially for Windows
• Transition of traditional public Athena clusters
• Wireless coverage of residence halls
• Lack of Institute service provision

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Electricity  Magnetismwith Studio Physics

• Studio format
• Visualization/simulation
• Desktop lab experiments
• Student teams

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Educational Value Proposition

• Proximities
• First Hand Learner-Teacher Research-Teaching
• Choice
• time, location, modality
• Active Learning
• Experience Project based Collaborative

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Educational Value Proposition

• Quality Content
• Transformations in Form
• Traditional ?Virtual
• Transformations in Function
• Knowing ? Affecting and Changing
• A pedagogy of abundance
• Connected Continuous Community
• Sustainable ecology

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Pervasive Impediments

• Network bandwidth is not uniform throughout.
• No cohesive computing, life, and learning
  strategy
• Technical and Business models for delivering
  software and services to a heterogeneous
  (dis)connected environment not yet there.
• No deliberate curriculum strategy to leverage
  pervasive computing.
• Logistical impediments weight, form factor,
  security

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Many Repositories
Remote ECL, Fedora, MERLOT
Institutional OCW, DSpace
Local
I
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Many Protocols, Data Specs Standards
DC
Remote
Marc
METS
SOAP
SRW
Institutional
IMS CP
LOM
Local
DRI
Z39.50
I
HTML
SCORM
File System
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Service Abstraction for Interoperability
Application Client
Servers
OSID
Implementations
Applications
Protocol A
Network Service A1
Data
Imp. A Protocol Connector (plus Local Business
Logic)
App. 1
Data
Imp. B Protocol Connector
Network Service A2
Data
App. 2
Data
Imp. C - Local Connector
Protocol B
Network Service B
Local Service C
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Federating Repositories with OSIDs
Application Client
Network Repositories
DR OSID
Tools
Plugins
Fedora
VUE
LOBSTER
Celebrate
Clouseau
Celebrate Broker
OCW
Other
ECL
Local XML
Edusource Gateway
iTunes
iPhoto
Local Repositories
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Endgame 1What is the problem to which headlamp
washer-wipers are the solution? Neil Postman.
Educom Conference 1992

• Enable the movement and manipulation of
  educational materials - Simply, Meaningfully
• Portability
• Interoperability
• Reusability
• An ecology characterized by Open, Community or
  proprietary Source Commodities that provide
• Value (heterogeneous)
• Choice (of Technology and Tools)
• Sustainability

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