• Fall 2003 International Main page
• ITF Meeting: 1st Part (Mon)
• ITF Meeting: 2nd Part (Mon)
• Supporting research in hard to network parts (Tues)
• Global Connectivity: Case Studies (Thur)
• Fall 2003 Member Meeting

Case Study 1:Bridging Cultural and Technical Boundaries through High Performance E-Learning

Internet2 and advanced networks worldwide show much promise for delivering high-performance interactive multipoint videoconferencing as a systematic means for increasing global education and learning. While several efforts to date have been successful, only a handful of initiatives have seen sustained results in bridging US and European instruction in a multi-national context. Technology is not the issue. More likely, it is the not uncomplicated process of building the communities of faculty and technologists that will sustain these types of learning experiences and pass on their experiences and the value to future generations of teachers and researchers. In this session, the presenters will discuss the EUMAX project which aims to prepare and implement an international foreign language and business engineering curriculum, which students will complete through distributed curriculum delivery and actual study immersions abroad complemented by virtual and physical internships with corporate project partners. High speed research and education networks worldwide will be used to deliver this unique pan-international E-Learning project and will enable distributed instruction and collaboration from the consortium partner institutions. Systematization and democratization of the lessons learned in the EUMAX project will encourage future adoption by both higher education and K12 (US) and Primary/Secondary education (EU) across disciplines.
Presenters:

• Jennifer MacDougall, MAGPI, Univ. of Pennsylvania
• Greg Palmer, MAGPI, Univ. of Pennsylvania
• Jesus Salillas, PROUS Science
• Jean-Francois Desnos, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (remote)

 

Case Study 2:DIVE: International-Distributed Interactive Virtual Environments

The accelerating revolution in information technologies (IT) generates a critical need to engage students in computer science, technology, engineering and mathematics to provide the future expertise required to support evolving technology, ongoing research and discovery. The Universities of New Mexico, Hawaii in the USA, Western Australia, Queensland in Australia, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand, have been actively involved in education, research and development in IT, visualization and distributed collaborative interactive virtual environments, including integration of haptics. Many of these projects involve students at various levels of training along with junior and senior faculty from many disciplines. These “learning families” have provided a stimulating and synergistic platform for engaging and energizing students in a variety of domains that support the research, development and evaluation of these models. We are now proposing to create a highly interactive virtual international, inter-institutional and interdisciplinary classroom and laboratory for learning and research in information technology using Internet2 for collaboration and sharing of expertise. A problem-based learning approach would be used to make the learning of important basic and complex principles relevant to learners from the interdisciplinary information technology science domains involved, allowing discovery and knowledge transfer to real-life problem solving.
Presenters:

• Dr. Dale Alverson, University of New Mexico
• Other participants will include:
  Karen Haines, University of Western Australia, AU
  Peter Yellowlees, University of Queensland, AU
  Tom Caudell, Univ. New Mexico

 

Case Study 3:A Grid-Enabled Border: I2 Solutions to Global Challenges

Internet2 members are taking the lead in developing and transboundary information management system (TRIMS) for the United States-Mexico border region. The Internet2 Geospatial Working goup is spearheading this effort to develop binational applications that can take advantage of Internet2-capabilities to address health, environment, resource management, homeland protection and many other challenges of this unique binational region. The TRIMS initiative involves a significant number of US (Internet2 members) and Mexican universities (via the Mexican National Research and Education networking organization, CUDI) working in partnership to develop standards for sharing information and further research and education in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies. TRIMS is setting the foundation for expanded collaboration that could also include international GIS applications between the United States and Canada. Currently, there is ongoing planning to have a series of Video Conference Workshops to start defining problems and solutions with the aim of developing a formal system for geospatial information exchange through out North America.
Presenter:

• Bob Gray, UTEP