Internet2 Fall 2003 Member Meeting Indianapolis, Indiana 16 October 2003

1. EUMAX - Bridging Cultural and Technical Boundaries through High Performance E-Learning J. MacDougall, J. Desnos, G. Palmer, J.Salillas Internet2 Fall 2003 Member Meeting Indianapolis, Indiana 16 October 2003

2. European Union and US Mid-Atlantic eXchange (EUMAX) • Primary goal to prepare EU and US students for an increasingly global business environment • Curriculum Components • Foreign language study and cultural exchange • International business and comp. science curriculum • Virtual and physical exchanges

3. Background/History: The KFC Experiment • 2001 pilot between Université Pierre Mendès France and Univ. of Pennsylvania • French/English Language and Business • Internet2 and Renater2 for four H.323 768 kbps videoconferences (1 Faculty, 3 Student) • Synchronous and asynchronous e-learning tools

4. EUMAX Consortium US Partners Temple University, Fox School of Business Rutgers University, CAIP Johns Hopkins University, SPSBE University of Pennsylvania, MAGPI GigaPoP

5. US Partners

6. EUMAX Consortium EC Partners Université Pierre Mendès France Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carl von Ossietzky University EUNIS

7. EU Partners

8. Corporate Partners • Prous Science • Leverage Internet2 Corporate Member Relationships • Possibly Sun Microsystems, others • Record and target desirable skillsets in the global ready graduates • Allow real-world participation in R&D environments • Virtual and physical internships

9. Prous

10. Benefit to Corporate Partners

11. Project Goals • Prepare culturally agile students • Promote understandingbetween the peoples of the European Union and the United States of America • Test range of curriculum-based pedagogical models for teaching foreign language and business culture • Prepare faculty and schools to more effectively use high performance technology • Expand use of advanced networking for multi-national language and business curriculum

12. Project Challenges • Communication • Across languages (French, Spanish, German, English) • Across technologists and faculty • Integration • Insertion of synchronous and asynchronous technologies • Of broad curricular goals • And, of course, • Competing priorities • Tight budgets

13. Role of High Performance E-Learning • High performance affords minimal latency, jitter, delay • Ideally suited for language and cultural training in global business environment • Limited multi-national use today despite nearly 40 International R&E Networks Worldwide • Combined with other high performance e-learning tools for distributed multinational environment

15. Status / Next Steps • Seek FIPSE/DG EAC Funding for 2004 • Approach Additional Funding Sources from Ministries/Depts. of Education, Corporate, Private Agencies • Do “competitive analysis” – is anyone else doing this now? What’s working? What’s not? • Promote Significance of Project and Stimulate Awareness (e.g., Internet2 Fall Meeting)

16. Innovation of EUMAX • Multi-national – Spain, France, Germany, US • Multi-disciplinary – Foreign Language, Business, Computer Science and Technology • Multi-leveled – Professional Students, UGrad Students, Masters Students • Combined process – People, Technology, Methodology

17. Additional Info • http://www.eumax.isn-oldenburg.de • http://www.magpi.net • http://www.eunis.org/ • http://www.prous.com/ • http://cicg.grenet.fr/ • http://www.ulpgc.es/ • http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ • http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/ • http://www.spsbe.jhu.edu/ • http://www.sbm.temple.edu/

18. Jennifer MacDougall Apps Coordinator, MAGPI University of Pennsylvania jmacdoug@magpi.net Greg Palmer Director, MAGPI University of Pennsylvania gpalmer@magpi.net Jean-Francois Desnos Head of Information Systems Dept. Centre Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Grenoble Jean-Francois.Desnos@grenet.fr Jesús Salillas Director of R&D Prous Science jsalillas@prous.com Thank You - Q&A