Motivation: Educational Value Proposition Access to Quality Content Transformations in Form –Traditional  Virtual Transformations in Function –Knowing  Affecting and Changing A pedagogy of abundance –Connected; Continuous; Community Impediments and Sustainability

Pervasive Computing to Abundant Educational Opportunity Vijay Kumar MIT CSG, Harvard,

Worldwide Collaboration through Online Laboratories “If you can’t come to the lab… the lab will come to you!”

iLab: worldwide collaboration NUS (Singapore, 13 time zones) Since Fall 2000(20-30 students/yr)

iLabs at MIT Shake table (Civil Eng., to be deployed early 2004) Flagpole (Civil Eng., deployed 2000, inactive) Polymer crystallization (Chem. E., deployed 2003) Microelectronics device characterization (EECS, deployed 1998) Heat exchanger (Chem. E., deployed 2001) STEF

Value of iLabs Pedagogy (Opportunity & Flexibility). –iLabs create laboratory experiences in subjects that didn’t have them before. –iLabs enable laboratory experiments at most opportune moment in curriculum. –iLabs allow students to perform experiments in pleasant environments at times of their choice –iLabs allow students to work in a “stop-and-go” mode

iLab: impact on MIT students

iLabs Value Labs can be located in places inaccessible to students iLabs hold unique scaling characteristics: -round the clock usage; from anywhere in the world -iLabs can be broadly shared: fundamental change in economics of the lab experience –Order-of-magnitude more laboratory experiences available to students –Can afford sophisticated labs involving:  advanced instrumentation; rare materials; unreachable locations iLabs embedded inside rich educational platforms containing visualization tools, simulations, data processing remote collaboration and tutoring iLabs will spawn communities of learners to share hardware and educational content

Local Service Broker Lab Servers Clients Campus network Internet Campus network Local databases iLab Shared Architecture

Field expedition to measure water quality in Australia

Project based Collaborative engineering design Curriculum for design fundamentals Simulation tools On-line collaboration environments Peer-review assessment tools. Robot World

Vision - project based learning for teaching engineering design leveraging Tablet PCs Tools –PREP - Peer Review Evaluation Process tool –Engineering Design Spread Sheets and MatLab simulations for detailed robot design Content –Engineering Design Spread Sheets and MatLab Simualtions for detailed robot design. (See OCW or ) –Slocum Book FUNdaMENTALs of Design Chapters 1-7 (See OCW) –Virtual Take Apart Documentation –2.000 How Things Work lecture set Principal Investigators: Alex Slocum, Marty Culpepper, John Williams

Gerald Schneider Rutledge Ellis-Behnke Jordan Gilliland

Next Step: Say goodbye to backpacks !

First Ph.D. Thesis defense using Tablet with live connection from MIT to Hong Kong University MIT 8:00pm Hong Kong 8:00 am

Active sketching with Magic Paper

One-to-One Vision Transform Athena into a: –Collection of services to support student-owned computing and selected cross-department shared computing resources special-purpose computing facilities, shared file spaces, collaboration tools, and Application management

One-to-One Computing Status Laptop Educational Projects (4) Laptop loaner program Experiments in tablet PCs, and handhelds Leveraging commodity computing and individual ownership –Providing services and software for machines not owned by MIT –Managing licenses and distribution of DLC owned software –Managed Windows, –Open AFS client for Linux IS Customer Survey Spring 2003 Continuation of trend toward student laptop ownership

Limited penetration of laptops in curriculum Standard suite of software needed –Especially for Windows Transition of traditional public Athena clusters Wireless coverage of residence halls –Lack of Institute service provision One-to-One Computing Issues

Electricity & Magnetism with Studio Physics  Studio format  Visualization/simulation  Desktop lab experiments  Student teams

Educational Value Proposition Proximities –First Hand; Learner-Teacher; Research- Teaching Choice – time, location, modality Active Learning –Experience; Project based; Collaborative

Educational Value Proposition Quality Content Transformations in Form –Traditional  Virtual Transformations in Function –Knowing  Affecting and Changing A pedagogy of abundance –Connected; Continuous; Community Sustainable ecology

Pervasive Impediments Network bandwidth is not uniform throughout. No cohesive computing, life, and learning strategy Technical and Business models for delivering software and services to a heterogeneous (dis)connected environment not yet there. No deliberate curriculum strategy to leverage pervasive computing. Logistical impediments: weight, form factor, security

Many Repositories… IDC I BM Remote ECL, Fedora, MERLOT … IDC Institutional OCW, DSpace Local

Many Protocols, Data Specs & Standards… IDC I BM IDC SOAP SRW HTML Z39.50 DRI Remote Institutional Marc DC LOM SCORM METS IMS CP Local File System

Service Abstraction for Interoperability App. 1 Imp. A – Protocol Connector (plus Local Business Logic) Imp. B – Protocol Connector OSID Imp. C - Local Connector Local Service C Implementations Applications App. 2 Application ClientServers Protocol A Protocol B Network Service A 1 Network Service B Network Service A 2 Data

Federating Repositories with OSIDs VUE Fedora DR OSID Clouseau Application ClientNetwork Repositories Other OCW ECL iTunes Local XML iPhoto ToolsPlugins Edusource Gateway LOBSTER Celebrate Celebrate Broker Local Repositories

Endgame 1 “ What is the problem to which headlamp washer-wipers are the solution?” Neil Postman. Educom Conference 1992 Enable the movement and manipulation of educational materials - Simply, Meaningfully –Portability –Interoperability –Reusability An ecology characterized by Open, Community or proprietary Source Commodities that provide : –Value (heterogeneous) –Choice (of Technology and Tools) –Sustainability

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