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What is SMA? Goals History Challenges Some facts How do we use videoconferencing? - Modes

Agenda. What is SMA? Goals History Challenges Some facts How do we use videoconferencing? - Modes Venues Related Educational Technology. 4.1. Netmeeting. Free with Windows thru XP Simple and robust (But no longer supported by MS)

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What is SMA? Goals History Challenges Some facts How do we use videoconferencing? - Modes

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  1. Agenda • What is SMA? • Goals • History • Challenges • Some facts • How do we use videoconferencing? • - Modes • Venues • Related Educational Technology 4.1

  2. Netmeeting • Free with Windows thru XP • Simple and robust • (But no longer supported by MS) • We’ll use it now to connect for application sharing 5.1

  3. Netmeeting • Supports : • Application sharing (T.120) • Videoconferencing (H.323) • Multi-vendor hardware • Multi-point application sharing • Remote control of applications 5.2

  4. Goals and History • Cooperative educational and research venture between MIT, NUS, NTU • World class center for education and research in engineering • Began in 1998; first classes in 1999 • 1 year Masters Program/with option for PhD • 2 week immersion period • 2 semesters synchronous video conferencing • ~50% SMA courses cross-listed with MIT 6.1

  5. Challenges • Geographical • 12,000 miles and 12 time zones • Cultural • Confrontation and mistakes • Pedagogical • Learning conventions 6.2

  6. Factoids • Singapore is 12,000 miles away • Incoming GRE scores • MIT: 2082; SMA: 2197 • 750SMA degrees. • 18-20 beaming sessions per week • early AM / late PM • Lectures • 2,500 lectures, 8,000 lecture hours • Lecture videos: 1 terrabyte • Lecture notes are synchronized with lecture video • Streaming video through MIT’s LMS, Stellar 6.3

  7. Modes: Lectures Recitations Research Team Meetings Qualifying Exams Collaboration & Advising Program Administration Venues: DE Lecture Rooms (Level 5 Classrooms) Research Interaction Rooms (conference rooms) Desktop / home set-ups How SMA Uses Videoconferencing 7.1

  8. Distance Education Classrooms • 4 Level 5 DE classrooms • Dedicated IP subnet • Tandberg 6000 • Multipoint • Wireless • Cable • PVC 8.1

  9. LiNC 8.2

  10. 1-390 8.3

  11. 3-370 8.4

  12. 3-370 w/Sympodium & Crestron 8.5

  13. 8-404 8.6

  14. Singapore DE Classrooms 8.7

  15. Distance Education Classrooms • Technology components • Sympodium • Document Camera • Crestron • Tracking Camera • Push to talk mikes 8.8

  16. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  17. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  18. Research Interaction Room - NUS

  19. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  20. More about 66-319 • Like all of our RIRs, it’s designed for self service; we train, they operate • Shared with the Chem-E department • 2 Working positions  2 Cameras, 2 Document Cameras, 2 Plasma Screens • Main plasma screen shows multiple views • Tandberg 6000 CODEC allows for multi-point (4 max) end-points, duo-video • No Sympodium, but Tablet PC is an alternative

  21. Demo PC-based systems ViGO and Via Video 10.1

  22. Analysis & Comparison of the 3 Venues Costly Technician Advance planning Inexpensive Self-Service No Advance Planning detractions benefits benefits Less Reliable Varying Quality Reliable High Quality detractions PC-based Systems for Home/Office Research Interaction Rms DE Classrooms 11.1

  23. Not the only one… Other DE initiatives on MIT campus: System Design and Management Cambridge MIT Institute 12.1

  24. Summary • This is what we did 13.1

  25. Questions? Peter Hess phess@mit.edu 617-253-6435 Molly Ruggles ruggles@mit.edu 617-253-0937 14.1

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