The American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

Digital Libraries: Case

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1. Digital Libraries: Case
   Dr. Janet K. Poley, President/CEO, ADEC: http://www.adec.edu
   
   
2. The U.S. Case: Libraries and Collaboratories
   • Electronic Access to Library Catalogs
   • Academic, Scientific, “just-in-time” Learning Modules
   • Museum Collections
   • Communities of Interest - Shared Resources
   • Live Data from Remote Locations
     

3. Communities of Place
   • Sharing Local News and Information
   • Ethnic Communities - New Linkages
   • Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Materials
   • Distributed Data
   • Blurring Among Research/Education/Outreach/Libraries
     

4. Importance of User Studies
   
   • Can’t Make Assumptions
   • Experiment with New Forms and Tools
   • Fast Proto-Typing
   • Personalization
   • Need for Widely Accepted Systems
   • U.S. Involvement: Library Community and Internet2, Higher Education, NSF, DOE, NLII,
     

5. Access to Libraries and Networks
   
   • Political Issue
   • Economic Issue
   • Geographic Issue
   • Technological Issue
   • From Pre-School - Lifelong Learning
     

6. Collaboratories
   
   • Integrating research and development activities and tools
   • Greater use of remote scientific facilities
   • Collaborative problem solving, shared visualization, virtual reality techniques and environments
   • Design from user back
     

7. Tools and Standards
   
   • Collaboration between higher education, industry and government
   • Human factors research
   • International collaboratories - like libraries - expand the idea space
   • Toward dumb networks and smart edges
     

8. Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project
   
   • Janet Poley
     

9. Digital Inclusion
   
   
10. 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
    
    
11. Concentration of Poverty Deconcentration of Opportunity
    
    • Relevant content
    • Social, cultural and professional activities online
    
    
12. The “Engaged” University
    
    • Outreach & Extension Important
    • Meeting Lifelong Learning Needs
    • Development of Skilled Workforce
    • New Partnerships/Relationships with Private Sector
    • Knowledge Networks -Economic Engine
    
    
13. Broadband Access to All
    
    • Rural and Remote Areas
    • Learning Centers
    • Historically Black Colleges & Universities
    • Tribal Colleges
    • Reaching Out to Overcome Distance
    
    
14. Technology Access Necessary - Not Sufficient
    
    • Applications
      
      • Learning Modules/Objects
      • Digital Libraries
      • Asynchronous/Synchronous Communication
      • Simulations
      • Virtual Reality
      • Teleimmersion
      
      
15. New Teaching and Learning Models
    
    • Four generations
    • Correspondence study
    • Multi-media with print
    • Online learning
    • Internet2 applications
      
    
    
16. New Research Models: Beyond Comparative Studies
    
    • No significant difference
    • Instructional design and operational environment
    • Media attribute theory
    
    
17. Attribute Analysis (Smith & Dillion 1999)
18. Blurring Research/Education
    • Collaboratories/Collaborative Worktools
    • Grand/Global Experiments
    • Participatory Research
    • Modeling
    • Instruments
    • New Creative Conceptualizations
    
    
19. 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
      
      
20. Project Goals
    
    • Explore and Evaluate:
      
      • satellite technology to deliver Internet to underserved audiences; and
      • deployment and integration of distance education applications.
        
    
    
21. 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
    
    
22. Tachyon.net

    
    

23. PPT Slide - Internet/ADEC/Tachyon Network
    

24. Institutions
    
    • North Carolina State/A&T Universities
    • University of Maryland
    • University of Illinois
    • University of Nebraska
    • University of California
    • Washington State University
      

25. 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