1. Purdue MSI Proposal
May 5, 1999
MSI Applications
E. Houstis (CS), A. Elmagarmid (CS), A. Nour (VET), L. Tsoukalas (NE), and M. Ishii (NE)
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2. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Overview
Purdue-On-Line: CS activities
Purdue-On-Line: Vet activities
PUMA: Purdue University Multi-Dimensional Integral Test Assembly
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3. Purdue-On-Line: A Facility for On-Line Instruction and Course Delivery
Purdue MSI Proposal
May 5, 1999
Purdue-On-Line: A Facility for On-Line Instruction and Course Delivery
E. Houstis (CS), A. Elmagarmid (CS), A. Nour (VET), N. Dhanjani (CS), L. Tsoukalas (NE)
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4. What is Purdue-On-Line (POL) today?
Purdue MSI Proposal
May 5, 1999
What is Purdue-On-Line (POL) today?
Research project trying to address the following issues:
Design and prototype an environment for on-line instruction on stationary and mobile platforms
Research teaching methodologies for on-line instruction
Experiment with a set of traditional courses
Evaluate courseware delivery models/software and on-line courses
Evaluate video servers (hardware/software), videoconferencing, and communication technologies
Assess the overall cost and impact of on-line education
Educate faculty
What is POL? at the moment the state-of-the art on on-line instruction is still at the research level. It's true that you can find some courses offered in some on-line form but in my opinion they are at a primitive stage. POL is a research project that tries a) to indentify the specifications of an on-line instruction environment, evaluate existing and announced technologies for implementing it, develop a prototype environment for experimentation,
b) research teaching methodologies for on-line instruction by transforming some existing courses and evaluate them.
c) Evaluate commercial and research courseware for delivery on-line courses. Already there are several in the market.
d) evaluate video servers and communication hardware
e) assess the overall cost and impact of on line education
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5. Who supports this effort?
Purdue MSI Proposal
May 5, 1999
Who supports this effort?
Primarily Intel Corporation and Purdue University
AT&T and IBM provided equipment support
International collaboration (Univ. of Crete, Greece)
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6. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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7. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Purdue MSI Proposal
May 5, 1999
Video Server
(CISCO Video Server)
Disk
Bank
Video sources:
Tape, Camera,
Satellite, ...
Digital Video Studio
(Optibase Mpeg Card)
(with and without hardware decoders)
Video Clients
Need to update it!
Switched Ethernet Hub (3Com)
CD-ROM Burner
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8. Purdue-On-line Course Multimedia Client/Server Systems
Course Management Tools
Learning Space (
WebCT (
LearningLink (xyz) (considered)
Videoconferencing
CuSeeMe (videoconfering)
Multimedia documents
Vxtreme
Videoservers
CISCO
Lucent
Oracle
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9. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Hardware Facility
Optibase move maker mpeg encoder card
VCR/TV/Sony digital camera
PC based Servers (Medusa: Quad PC, 60Gbytes disk, 512 Mbytes RAM)
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10. Mobile Virtual Laboratories and PSEs for Instruction and Research
SoftLab (virtual lab framework)
WebPELLPACK (Problem Solving Environment)
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11. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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12. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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13. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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14. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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15. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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16. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Programming in C/C++
Freshman and Continuing Education Students
High School Background
Offered two times
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17. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
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18. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
CS190E Tour
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19. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
CS541: Data Bases
Videolecture delivered by CISCO videoserver
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20. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Veterinary School
On-line courses
Multimedia material
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21. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Chemistry Course
Lecture 4 (“The World of Mater”) (Delivered by CISCO videoserver)
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22. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Conclusions
On-line distance learning technology requirements
Easy of use technologies for developing, accessing, and storing multimedia documents
Indexed full screen, high resolution video material on demand
Tools for safeguarding digital library material
Videoconferencing
Secure course records
Efficient course management tools
Efficient network facilities
Multimedia content production facilities
POL will benefit from MSI infrastructure and research
POL environment, courses, material can be served as benchmark to MSI research
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23. MSI: Infrastructure Organization
Conclusions
On-line distance learning technology requirements
Easy of use technologies for developing, accessing, and storing multimedia documents
Indexed full screen, high resolution video material on demand
Tools for safeguarding digital library material
Videoconferencing
Secure course records
Efficient course management tools
Efficient network facilities
Multimedia content production facilities
POL will benefit from MSI infrastructure and research
POL environment, courses, material can be served as benchmark to MSI research
12/26/2018
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