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Introduction to SMA’s Distance Learning Classroom

2003 Summer Conference

Julita Kussmaul

SMA Distance Learning Manager

2003 Summer Conference7/23/03

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Session Objectives

• Introduce the new students to SMA’s Distance Education technology

• Familiarize the students with the teaching process

• Meet SMA Faculty


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Agenda

• SMA’s 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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Today’s Session

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

Services (AMPS)

Internet2MIT MCU

Class 1 3-370

RI Room

CIT AUD

Singapore

Cambridge, MA, USA

SingAREN NUS

Class 2 1-390

Conf Room


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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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SMA’s 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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SMA’s 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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ClassroomLive

Beaming

ClassroomLive

Beaming

FacultyFaculty

Stellar Learning

Mgt System

Stellar Learning

Mgt System

BeamingInfrastructure

BeamingInfrastructure

SMA Website

SMA Website

DigitizationDigitization

Videotaped Lectures

Videotaped Lectures

Backups

FTP Server Posted to Website

FTP Server Posted to Website

StellarStellar FacultyFaculty

DistanceStudents

DistanceStudents

SMA Educational Technology Infrastructure

ResearchInteraction

Rooms

ResearchInteraction

Rooms

Designed, operated and supported by AMPS


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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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• 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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– 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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• Asynchronous delivery – Viewing Mode 1

or


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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. GravesAbraham 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

SMA MIT Faculty

Professor David E. Hardt Professor of Mechanical Engineering

SMA Faculty Fellow, Programme Chair, IMST

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