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What SMA is: Origins, Goals, & History How SMA employs videoconferencing:

Explore the origins, goals, and history of SMA's innovative use of videoconferencing in educational technology. Learn how SMA collaborates with MIT, NUS, and NTU, benefits Singapore and Massachusetts, and offers a unique Masters/PhD program. Discover various venues, uses, benefits, and the technical infrastructure behind SMA's videoconferencing setup. Get insights into SMA's research interaction rooms, DE classrooms, and the NetMeeting application. Contact Peter Hess or Molly Ruggles for more info.

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What SMA is: Origins, Goals, & History How SMA employs videoconferencing:

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  1. Agenda • What SMA is: • Origins, Goals, & History • How SMA employs videoconferencing: • Multiple Uses, Different Venues • Related Educational Technology • Details and Demos • Questions…

  2. SMA Goals and History • Educational & research venture between MIT, NUS, NTU • Engineering research and education • Began in 1998; first classes in 1999 • Benefits to Singapore; Benefits to MIT • 1 year Masters Program/with PhD option • 2-3 week immersion period • 2 semesters synchronous video conferencing • ~50% SMA courses cross-listed w/ MIT

  3. Uses: Lectures Recitations Research Team Meetings Qualifying Exams Collaboration & Advising Program Administration Venues: DE Lecture Rooms (Level 5 Classrooms) Research Interaction Rooms (conference rooms) Desktop / home set-ups How SMA Uses Videoconferencing

  4. Distance Education Classrooms Level 5 DE classrooms • Dedicated IP subnet • Tandberg 6000 • Multipoint • Wireless • Cable • PVC – Private Virtual Circuit • Cameras, speakers, microphones, etc.

  5. DE Classroom - MIT

  6. DE Classroom - MIT

  7. Podium close-up

  8. DE Classroom - MIT 8.7

  9. DE Classroom - MIT 8.7

  10. DE Classrooms - Singapore

  11. DE Classroom Infrastructure Academic Media Production Services - AMPS • Master Control Room - fiber to the DE classrooms • Technical staff - set up, manage, maintain • Tech Checklist • Lectures - beaming sessions • 2,500 lectures, 6,000 hrs, 1 terrabyte • Recording • Digitization & Synchronization

  12. NetMeeting (Application Share) • Free with Windows thru XP • Simple and robust • (But no longer supported by MS) • T.120 app. sharing • H.323 videoconferencing • Multi-point app sharing • Supports remote control

  13. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  14. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  15. Research Interaction Room - NUS

  16. Research Interaction Room - MIT

  17. Research Interaction Rooms • Research Interaction Rooms are designed for self service; we train, they operate • No technicians required; saves $$$ • Also connected to PVC • 66-319 • Shared with the Chem-E department • 66-319: 2 working positions  2 cameras, 2 document cameras, 2 plasma screens • Main plasma screen shows multiple views • Tandberg 6000 CODEC allows for multi-point (4 max) end-points, duo-video • No Sympodium, but Tablet PC is an alternative

  18. Desktop systems • PC or “appliance” • Can use Webcam + NetMeeting • We use ViaVideo and ViGO (~$600) • Connection speed 64/128 kB/s (vs. 128 or 384) • Connected to SMA PVC via MIT’s VPN • Built in application sharing • Demo

  19. Analysis & Comparison Costly Technician Advance Planning Inexpensive Self-Service No Advance Planning detractions benefits benefits Less Reliable Varying Quality Reliable High Quality detractions PC-based Systems for Home/Office Research Interaction Rms DE Classrooms

  20. Not the only one… System Design and Management Cambridge MIT Institute

  21. Summary Questions? Peter Hessphess@mit.edu617-253-6435 Molly Rugglesruggles@mit.edu617-253-0937

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