Introduction to SMAs Distance Learning Classroom

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Introduction to SMAs Distance Learning
Classroom

• 2003 Summer Conference
• Julita Kussmaul
• SMA Distance Learning Manager

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Session Objectives

• Introduce the new students to SMAs Distance
  Education technology
• Familiarize the students with the teaching
  process
• Meet SMA Faculty

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Agenda

• SMAs facts, objectives and successes
• SMA Distance Education overview
• Teaching process 2 modes of delivery
• Synchronous beaming sessions
• Asynchronous on-demand streaming
• Meeting the MIT SMA Faculty Fellows

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Todays Session
Class 1 3-370
Class 2 1-390
SingAREN
MIT MCU
CIT AUD
Internet2
NUS
Conf Room
Singapore
RI Room
Cambridge, MA, USA

• 5-site videoconference over Internet2
• Live, interactive session
• 2 streams video and data
• Hosted jointly with Academic Media Production
  Services (AMPS)

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SMA Facts

• Partnership since 1999 among MIT, NUS and NTU
• SMA-1 to conclude in 2 years SMA-2 to commence
  in 2005
• To-date 459 SMA students participated in the
  Program
• 5 academic programs
• Average of 35 Masters and 5 PhD students
• 45 MIT faculty and roughly the same number from
  Singapore

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SMAs Objectives

• Create new graduate subjects and curricula
• Develop new and innovative research programs
• Establish a greater MIT connection in Asia
• Evaluate a variety of distance interaction
  technologies

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SMAs Successes

• Stimulated interdisciplinary curriculum
  development and research activities at MIT
• Several programs introduced new MIT courses now
  open to all MIT students
• Enhanced 25 SMA subjects that are also offered as
  MIT subjects to MIT students
• Provided research funds to MIT SMA Faculty

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SMA Distance Education Overview

• Live, interactive class sessions held daily at
  7AM-10AM and at 7PM-10PM
• 3-4 classes transmitted to Singapore in each time
  slot
• 4 smart classrooms at MIT 4 at NUS and 1 at NTU
• Over 1,000 hours of live classes delivered,
  recorded and streamed in the 02/03 academic year

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SMA Educational Technology Infrastructure
Designed, operated and supported by AMPS
Distance Students
Faculty
Research Interaction Rooms
Stellar Learning Mgt System
Classroom Live Beaming
Stellar
Faculty
Beaming Infrastructure
FTP Server Posted to Website
Digitization
SMA Website
Backups
Videotaped Lectures
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SMA Teaching Process

• Synchronous delivery
• Technology tour of the participating sites
• 3-370 Smart Classroom
• 1-390 Smart Classroom
• Larry Gallagher, Director of MIT Video Production
  and DE Delivery, AMPS

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SMA Teaching Process

• NUS CIT Auditorium
• MIT Research Interaction Room
• David Scannell, Videoconferencing Systems
  Administrator, AMPS
• MIT Conference Room
• Peter Hess, SMA Faculty Liaison, AMPS

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SMA Teaching Process

• David Mycue Principal Strategist, Digital
  Technologies and Head of Streaming Operations
  AMPS

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SMA Teaching Process Internet2 Map
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SMA Teaching Process Internet2 Map
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SMA Teaching Process Internet2 Map
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SMA Teaching Process

• Asynchronous delivery Viewing Mode 1

or
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SMA Teaching Process

• Asynchronous delivery Viewing Mode 2

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SMA Teaching Process

• Asynchronous delivery Viewing Mode 3

Lower bitrate with similar quality for off-campus
viewing.
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Meeting the MIT SMA Faculty

• Discussion about
• Class participation
• Faculty expectations
• Tips and suggestions

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SMA MIT Faculty

• Professor Stephen C. Graves
• Abraham Siegel Professor of Management
• SMA Faculty Fellow, IMST

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SMA MIT Faculty

• Professor Charles E. Leiserson
• Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
• SMA Faculty Fellow, Programme Chair, CS
• Adjunct Professor, NUS

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SMA MIT Faculty

• Professor David E. Hardt
• Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• SMA Faculty Fellow, Programme Chair, IMST

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