Infrastructure for Teaching and Learning

1. Infrastructure for Teaching and Learning CSG 10-4-1999 Vijay Kumar, MIT; Judith Boettcher,CREN & Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley & Several Others

2. Is There…. providing and enabling ( like your significant other) Makes Simple things easy; Complex Things possible (Alan Kay) Layers: Physical; Application; Rules; Support (People); Structure that binds these to enable education through IT Infrastructure Views and Scope

3. Distributed Client-Server General-use clusters & classrooms Departmental facilities Basic network services Common filespace Secure Serially Reusable Scalable Support for users Course Lockers Zephyr ( Instant Messaging) Discuss and WebX Mailing Lists OLTA OWL NEOS Commercial tools / applications Courseware WWW MIT’s Infrastructure for T&L: Core & Athenaweb.mit.edu/acs

4. Emerging Applications / Educational possibilities leveraged content; large scale collaborative design Evolving Technology and Market Influence Rich Media; Network+; wireless; devices.. Expanding Community Singapore; SDM; Corporations; Alumni Integrating Heterogeneity Enterprise orientation Community Definitions and valid access Strategic Educational Focus Support Why are we talking about the Infrastructure? (Some MIT Happenings & Concerns)

5. Educational Media Creation Center production of sustainable media and web-based educational materials for MIT: external+internal programs MIT Council on Educational Technology strategic guidance Academic Services coherent access to technology resources for T&L Pismire (NT); Linux Layered Athena;100MB service New Services: Web Servers; Spatial Data Support; GIS Service Architecture Group Digital Info Resources ( Digital Shelf Space; Persistent URLS; Storage management) Policies - Student Information; Access New T&L Spaces: Aero-Astro; Stata; Classrooms What’s New (or almost)

6. the new Commons Leveraged Content (content objects with functionality across subjects/disciplines GIS tools; native speakers; downloadable educational hardware /devices On-Line Educational Utilities: rich-media HELP environments (OLTA, OWL, Neos) for academic advising,course selections…; Decision Dupport Systems for Student Life and Learning Physical-Virtual Settings for a variety educational opportunities Hybrid Organizational arrangements Future Features

7. What do you keep in terms of the Architecture/Environment/functionalities? What should the COMMONS be? What are some of the organizational arrangements - to enable and support educational transformations How do you balance the portfolio Outside - Inside Enterprise Orientation with Unique interests Challenges

8. 1. Understanding the Infrastructure in terms of what it should deliver and how. John Harwood (Penn State) Phil Long (Yale) 2. Member Scenarios (5) highlighting current state, changes, issues and desiderata UWisc (Kathy Christoph) U of Chicago ( Chad Kainz) U Washington ( Mark Donovan) Cornell (Annie and Joan) CMU (Daniel Rehak and Anne Humphreys) 3. Survey/s: Complement scenarios; aggregate; sharpen focus on Preferred Sevices and attributes; Issues and Metrics Mike Barker, Vijay; Umich Faculty Survey Today - b.l.

9. 4. Enterprise Applications and Components UC Berkeley (Jack McCredie, Alice,Agogino, Fred Beshears IMS Frank Tansey, Sonoma State 5. Group Discussions Organizing for T&L support Policies for support Technology for support Metrics for support Future Issues 6. Wrap Up Today - a.l.

10. - An understanding of how member institutions support the evolving needs of T&L - What are the big issues to work on? Common Problems and Common solutions What do we want from this workshop?

11. The Rhetoric Create the Necessary Infrastructure “...the virtual equivalent of Killian Court , the Dome”.. and the Infinite Corridor” ..integrating electronic facilities, physical spaces.......renders true value to the community members, ..creates a sense of belonging to a special community... Create an upgraded and extended campus in which physical spaces, electronic tools, and infrastructure are closely integrated and mutually supportive; electronic interaction spaces mediated through video-conf. and shared software environments Create people-centered spaces. Involve the libraries, MIT Press, and CAES in an integrated strategy to gain maximum value from MIT’s intellectual property Engineering the environment I

12. The Reality build architecture that supports experimentation WITHOUT disrupting production. make high performance available on highly available environments scalable, reliable, quality retain the best features of AthenaTMin the new environment. serial reusabilty; security;commonfs; scalability develop strong, highly professional support organization for both maintaining common infrastructure and effectively supporting the various experimental projects. Engineering the environment

13. Allowing Customization Gating shared ( distributed) repositories Maintaining / upgrading materials in light of an evolving technological environment Value and Viability Intellectual Property B/W Reservation and Protocols Selecting and Sustaining Meritorious Applications Distributed Support distributedresponsibility/virtual management Security Quality of Content & Service

14. Integrated Education Learning and Doing General + Professional Research and Teaching commitment to close integration of cutting-edge research and classroom teaching Graphics - Hi Fi environments for Graphics research and teaching (generation of hi-fi graphics at interactive rates; web-based, collaborative interactive, highly automated teaching systems Bringing the Excitement of Research to Teaching ..............Killian Ed.IT @ MIT Visions & Values (Not DISsing Education)