- NSF Grant Presentation to Great Plains
Network
Janet Poley, President, ADEC
- Distance Education
- Taking the university to the people?
- Taking the university to the wealthy?
- Taking the university to the urban?
- Taking the university to the educated?
- Taking the university to:
- D.C., Silicon Valley, Austin, Seattle, SLC
- The Digital Divide
- Falling through the Net
- Have Nots are Growing Over Time
- Heterick Comments on DD
- “We should worry about the unhappily slow roll-out and high cost
of high speed digital connectivity. To produce really compelling
learning applications, we will most often require megabit access."
- The Real Digital Divide
- “At the current roll-out rate of our phone companies’ digital
subscriber line technology and the cable companies symmetrical broadband
services, we will be severely limited in what we can design in the
way of new learning environments for quite some time to come.”
- ADEC Vision No More Back Roads
- Reach into communities less than 25,000
- HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Serving
- Developing Countries
- Who Do Most of Underserved Schemes Really
Serve?
- Not the “distant”
- Not the place bound
- Not the less educated
- Not the educators
- Not the national interest
- Not universal in service
- Pretty Good Internet
- DSL
- Satellite Wireless
- LMDS
- Radio wireless
- Protocols
- Improving Access and Applications
- Bandwidth offers “realism” with instructional potential for more
concrete and complex symbols and visuals
- Bandwidth offers “voice” and affect
- Two-way offers active engagement and adaptation to learners
- Synchronous offers immediacy and responsiveness
- Partners
- National Science Foundation
- ADEC Members (Nebraska, Washington State, North Carolina State,
California, Maryland, Illinois)
- San Diego NAP/CAIDA
- Internet 2
- Educause
- Tachyon
- ADEC Network
- Differentiated Service
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