Eduplex Concept Overview $15Myr., 10year Institute

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Eduplex Concept Overview 15M/yr., 10-year
Institute

• The Condition U.S. K-12 STEM education is in
  extremis and STEM jobs are moving overseas
• The Conundrum despite national attention and
  sizable funding, there is little improvement
• The Cause lack of cohesion, poor
  interoperability and no durable technical
  champion
• The Challenge develop systemic approach,
  establish standards, and deal with teacher fears
• The Capability USCs VSOE and ISI are the home
  to recognized leaders in needed fields -
  distributed computer systems - standards
  establishment - tools creation - prototyping
• The Course of Action USC, VSOE and ISI should
  lead nationally funded ten-year effort O(15M/yr)
  to remedy this critical problem

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CURRENT SITUATION K-12
SHORTAGE OF STEM TEACHERS - 40,000 in CA
- few Graduating - existing STEM teachers
need assistance
PROPOSAL DEVELOP EDUPLEX FOR EDUCATIONAL
MATERIAL

• Make STEM interactive materials ready to meet
  teachers needs
• interactive classroom adjunct as aid to teachers
• available for home study supplement
• modifiable by teachers to conform to their needs
• meet teacher testing needs online and automate
  as needed
• Introduce intelligent tutors coupled with
  statistical DB
• to tailor material to students needs
• to further improve student performance
• Continually add to materials and teaching tools

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US EDUCATION REQUIRES A DEDICATED EDUCATION
SCIENCES INSTITUTE NOW!

• Innovative researchers and master teachers are
  demonstrating what can be accomplished, with
  encouraging local results!
• National implementation of these programs is
  hamstrung by outdated methods of adoption,
  inadequate systems and daunting retraining needs!
• For a similar Education Revolution to succeed, at
  least three areas need to be addressed content
  capture methods (Hovey, et al.), distributed
  classroom oriented system (Lucas et al.) and
  tailored infrastructure design (ISI Networking
  Division)!
• The Internet Revolution progressed, not when
  users developed web pages (Google, Wikipedia, My
  Space, ), but only after Government-sponsored
  institutes provided the standards (e.g. IP, DNS,
  ), the tools (e.g. HTML, browsers, ) and
  infrastructure (e.g. ARPANet, RFCs, committees,
  )!
• USCs ISI provided similar capabilities for the
  Internet a new Education Sciences Institute
  could do the same for U.S. Students

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CHALLENGES MET BY WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH

• Barriers to Education
• Short life of programs
• Difficulty in distribution
• Heterogeneous classrooms
• Culture
• Boy/Girl issues
• Family support/background
• Languages
• Capability
• Teacher training requirements
• Over-burdened teachers
• Content capture hard
• Standardize testing issues

• ESI Solutions to Enable Excellence
• Centralized and maintained courses and code
• Communication and bandwidth enhancement
• Individualized training that adjusts to student
• Culturally sensitive teaching approaches
• Sex-neutral derision-protective learning
• Remedial special instruction for deprived
• Language assistance and ELL programs
• Self-paced optimized for slow or fast learners
• Teacher-selected participation level
• Centralized technical facility/simple classrooms
• Automated and easy templates for content
• Supplant or replace with In-place evaluation

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WHY THIS WILL SUCCEED!

• Focus on broad Teacher Acceptance
• Access to help not addition to burden
• Alternative to standardized testing
• Low maintenance in classroom
• Proven technology and approach from ISI DoD work
• DEN history of success in distributed educations
• Replicability of the Internet infrastructure
  design experience
• Open Source, Published Interfaces Standards
  Body
• Continuous improvement and maintenance of content
  and tools

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Why the VSOE/ISI and Hawaii are the Optimal
Parents for the ESI
Recognized leaders in their respective
fields Complementary skill sets and team
cohesiveness proven since 1996 Demonstrable
excellence in distributed computing for
education, (DEN) simulation (JESPP) and training
(SIMZILLA) Long track record of the team
successfully delivering major DoD production
capabilities with solid reliability (over a
decade)
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Special Strengths from USC Information
Sciences Institute
MOSIS Chip Design Service

• ISI/VSOE/USC bring all the assets of a top-ranked
  Engineering School (Top 10 for a decade) and
  Research University (27th)
• Distance Education Network (DEN) three decades of
  world-wide graduate education
• ISI has a three-decade record of delivering
  enabling contributions to the Internet
• Internet protocols development standards
• Prototyping
• Research
• Domain Name System
• MOSIS education and research for computer chip
  design

ARPANET Developer
DEN on Campus
Internet Protocols TCP/IP SMTP Kerberos
Domain Name Sys. .com, .edu, .net, .gov,
K-12 Educ.. Rossier SOE CARTE _at_ISI K-12_at_USC
ICT,
A/I Training Research
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ISI, VSOE, USC Participants Opportunities

• ISI has resident expertise and acknowledged
  leadership in
• Large computer and communications systems
  development
• International technical standards development,
  vetting and adoption
• System tools conception and development
• Artificial Intelligence research
• Natural language research and implementations
• Continentally distributed HPCC systems
• VSOE (Top 10 for a decade) has ascendancy in a
  plethora of technical areas
• Games development and engineering Zyda
• Visualization development and engineering IMSC
• Departments C.S. department, EE, BioMed,
• Centers ISI, ICT,
• USC (27th) has strengths in needed disciplines
• Rossier School of Education
• Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Annenberg, Cinema, PPD

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BUDGET
4
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Year 4 -Refresh hardware
Year 2 -Same as year 1 with no hardware purchases

• Year 1
• -Machine Purchase (Maui)
• -Machine Operation (Bal) and programming
  (Maui-Bal or
• ISI Hawaii)
• -System architecture
• (ISI Marina)
• -Money to be spent on education tools either
• ISI Marina or Hawaii
• or elsewhere (later on)

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Tasks for First Year

• Identify the theoretical pedagogical
  underpinnings for systemic approach to K-12
  problem
• Identify characteristics of classroom teachers
  who will use new technology  
• Identify three to five of the most salient
  pedagogical dilemmas amenable to technology
• Develop and implement skeletal prototype modules
  for student and teacher learning 
• Deliver preliminary modules for alpha and beta
  testing and feedback
• Create an initial set of standards based on
  design efforts and develop an ontology  
• Create an environment for review of the
  infrastructure/tools/ standards