PROMISING CYBER LEARNING PRACTICES CAPITALIZING ON CENIC BACKBONE

1. PROMISING CYBER LEARNING PRACTICES CAPITALIZING ON CENIC BACKBONE Presenters:Dr. Jay Brockman, Notre Dame Glen Kuck, San Bernardino CCD George Ward, CSU Digital Marketplace Stephanie Couch, K20 CETC/CENIC

2. Fostering Learning in a Networked World – NSF Task Force Report

3. 5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Help build a vibrant cyberlearning field by promoting cross-disciplinary communities of cyberlearning researchers and practitioners including technologists, educators, domain scientists, and social scientists.

4. 5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS 2. Instill a “platform perspective”—shared, interoperable designs of hardware, software, and services—into NSF’s cyberlearning activities. 3. Emphasize the transformative power of information and communications technology for learning, from K to grey. Technologies that allow interaction with scientific data, visualizations, remote and virtual laboratories.....

5. 5 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS 4. Adopt programs and policies to promote open educational resources. 5. Take responsibility for sustaining NSF-sponsored cyberlearning innovations. Educational materials and learning innovations need to flourish beyond the funding of a grant. MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/index.jsp

6. IntroEngineering.org: A Structured Wiki Community for Instructors of First-Year Engineering Courses Jay BrockmanAssociate Dean of EngineeringUniversity of Notre Dame

8. Objects Discussion Book Chapter Discussion Module Discussion Module Lecture Lecture Lecture ABET Program Outcome Learning Objective ABET Program Outcome Learning Objective ABET Program Outcome Learning Objective Solution Solution Problem Problem Problem Project Project Rubric Project Course Module Module Module Module Module MATLAB Model MATLAB Model MATLAB Model

17. EduStream.org Glen Kuck, Ed.D. - Executive Director Distributed Education and Technology Services San Bernardino Community College District

18. Background • Community Colleges and Telecourses • Concerns with academic rigor • Value of Telecourses in expanding DE programs; providing rich content; ability to demonstrate difficult to explain concepts; catering to visual learners… • Emerging Trends

19. Emerging Trends • 2002 Average Class Size • Telecourse 54.9 • Online 26.6 2007 Average Class Size • Telecourse 29.6 • Online 30.7 • Telecourse providers are losing membership • Colleges want content that they can delivery anyway, anytime, and anywhere

20. Background • “The Idea” – Why don’t we stream it and make it part of an online course? • Yes, there are other providers already out there, but…. • Concerns/Considerations: • Cost to students • ADA Compliance • Desire to provide access to additional content for: • Faculty and Professional Development, • Economic/Workforce Development, etc.

21. SBCCD’s Solution… Windows Media Environment (moving to H.264) Digital Broadcast Environment Flash Playback Environment Digital Content Repository,

22. Key Features • Each institution has its own site administrator • All proprietary content is ADA compliant • Ability to upload practically any file format • Agnostic to any CMS

23. Key Features • Allows intra and inter-institutional collaboration • Potential use is limited only by creativity • Marketing • Sports, graduations, other events • Professional Development • Workforce and Economic Development • Orientations

24. Application Overview • http://www.edustream.org • http://tlearnvideo.dcccd.edu

25. Ensuring Quality Experiences • Initial Planning • Scalable and Customizable Infrastructure • GigE Backbone (additional fiber) • SAN and Server Configurations • Complete redundancy (failover and back-up) • Serves two purposes: fail-over and disaster recovery • Technical Expertise and 24/7 Monitoring

26. Where are we today? • Application: • Have mirrored meta-tagging standards with Merlot, finalizing with Digital Marketplace • Completed pilot phase • Beginning roll-out at rate of four institutions per month

27. Where are we today? • 47 Institutions across 10 states • Waiting list of 24 California Community Colleges • Negotiating rates with content providers to provide free access to all California Community Colleges

28. Where are we today? • Currently have 3000 clips in various subject areas including: • Accounting • Micro and Macroeconomics • General Business • English • Health • History • Nutrition • Physical Science • Sociology • US Government

29. Thank YouContact:Glen Kuck, Ed.D. - Executive DirectorDistributed Education and Technology ServicesSan Bernardino Community College District(909)384-4325gkuck@sbccd.edu

30. Digital Marketplace Project & Academic Technology eFramework George Ward Lead Architect Academic Technology Services California State University

31. Digital Marketplace Defined Enable the effective discovery and distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of CSU’s mission to provide students with access to a high-quality education. Key Objectives of Digital Marketplace: Choice– Provide an efficient “one-stop shopping” service with a variety of instructional materials necessary to succeed academically. Affordability – Reduce the cost of instructional materials to students. Reduce the time and total cost of education for the institution. Accessibility – Ease of access to instructional materials for all students.

32. Academic eFramework CSU eFramework is designed to create a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable scalable and reusable common core services that are essential for CSU’s programs. These common services will be reused across projects that have like functionality needs. The first application of these services will be the Digital Marketplace with the next projects being considered are Student Academic Planning and Math remediation

33. Digital Marketplace Village Local View Department Store Library • Formality • Structure • Standards • Regulations • Individual goals served • Sale of goods and services products • Amazon.com model Farmers Market • Serves the community good • Some free services to public • ID authentication for privileges (Library Card) • CSU Electronic Core Collection • MERLOT peer review collection; services Community Park • eBay.com model • Direct sales between producers • and customers • Peer to peer transactions • Peer to peer/public • MERLOT free exchange Warranty & implied quality assurance City Managers & Professional Staff Town Council

34. Services Oriented Architecture

35. CSU SOA Implementation LMS Portal Teaching Application Syllabus Application User Interface Layer Workflow Engine BPEL engine Rules Engine Service Registry CSU Services Oriented Layer Orchestration Layer CSU Services Oriented Layer Search Service Profile Service Submission Service Common Services Layer Transaction Service Clearing Service Acquisition Service Identity / Access Management Service Data Bases Data Base Layer

36. Digital Marketplace Integration Flows

37. More Information On Digital Marketplacehttp://21st-digitalmarketplace.com/George Ward gward@calstate.edu