Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project

Janet Poley, President
American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

March 13, 2001

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1. Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project
   Janet Poley, President, ADEC
2. Digital Inclusion
3. Concentration of Poverty Deconcentration of Opportunity
   • Inner cities and isolated rural areas
   • Lack of infrastructure in poor neighborhoods
   • Lack of investment leads to fewer economic opportunities
   
   
4. Concentration of Poverty Deconcentration of Opportunity
   • Relevant content
   • Social, cultural and professional activities online
   
   
5. The “Engaged” University
   • Outreach & Extension Important
   • Meeting Lifelong Learning Needs
   • Development of Skilled Workforce
   • New Partnerships/Relationships with Private Sector
   • Knowledge Networks -Economic Engine

   
   
6. Broadband Access to All
   • Rural and Remote Areas
   • Learning Centers
   • Historically Black Colleges & Universities
   • Tribal Colleges
   • Reaching Out to Overcome Distance
   
   

7. Technology Access Necessary - Not Sufficient
   • Applications
     • Learning Modules/Objects
     • Digital Libraries
     • Asynchronous/Synchronous Communication
     • Simulations
     • Virtual Reality
     • Teleimmersion
     
     
   
   
8. New Teaching and Learning Models
   • Four generations
   • Correspondence study
   • Multi-media with print
   • Online learning
   • Internet2 applications
   
   

9. New Research Models: Beyond Comparative Studies
   • No significant difference
   • Instructional design and operational environment
   • Media attribute theory
   
   

10. Attribute Analysis (Smith & Dillion 1999)

11. Blurring Research/Education
    • Collaboratories/Collaborative Worktools
    • Grand/Global Experiments
    • Participatory Research
    • Modeling
    • Instruments
    • New Creative Conceptualizations
    
    
12. 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
      
      
    
    

13. Project Goals
    • Explore and Evaluate:
      • satellite technology to deliver Internet to underserved audiences; and
      • deployment and integration of distance education application
      
      
    
    
14. 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
    
    
15. Tachyon.net
16. Internet/ADEC/Tachyon Network (Diagram)
    
    
17. Core Institutions
    • North Carolina State
    • North Carolina A&T
    • University of Illinois
    • University of Nebraska
    • University of California
    • Washington State University
    
    
18. 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/MainStMain.htm
      
      
    • Business 2.0 – Milking the Net…for all it’s worth
      • http://www.business2.com/content/channels/technology/2000/06/13/12863