# Presentation: 091676

## Teaching, Learning and the Future of the InternetNov, 1999

**Dr. Terence W. Rogers**
**Director, Abilene Project**

## Internet2 Project Goals

**Internet2 Project Goals**

**Enable new generation of applications**
**Re-create leading edge R&E network capability**
**Transfer capability to the global production Internet**

## UCAID Member Universities150+ Members

- University of Puerto Rico not shown

## Driver behind these changes

**BANDWIDTH - BANDWIDTH BANDWIDTH**
**UNIT costs will fall dramatically and then move to a Moore’s Law track**
**We will have a PC model of getting more for your money**
**Compared to today we may as well think of bandwidth as Free**

## Qwest Network in 2000

- “The network could simultaneously carry the traffic generated by 300,000 broadcast channels -- more than 100 times the number of channels available worldwide today - and still have capacity to spare.”

## Three Major Themes

## 1.   It will look different ...

**HDTV quality**
**Entertainment Level impact**
**Interactive **
**Large Screens, Wall projections ...**

## 1A. It will become even more so ... 

**TeleImmersion**
**Realistic virtual presence**
**Realistic virtual objects**
**Introducing touch ... **

## Educational Opportunities

**Specific Lessons**
**Educational Channels (by the 100’s)**
**Tele-Classrooms**
**Visualization - modeling ...**
**The creation of central Resource Labs**
**What is the role of the Commercial world?**

## Educational Impact?

**Teachers**
- Information overload
- Vocational Training becomes distributed?
**The teacher as guide not giver of info**
**The teacher as ethical, behavioral, or dare I say it moral guide**

## 2.  We will be Totally Wired

**Your House**
**Your Car**
**Your Body, (health signs etc.)**
**Your Work place (wherever that is!)**
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**Your SCHOOL**

## Remote Teaching Environments

**Electron Microscope example U. Mich.**
**Centralized specialized Resources**
**Is this too VIRTUAL?  --  Training for how the “real world” will be**
**Imagine how it will be with TeleImmersion!!**

## Classroom Kits

**The Wired Classroom --  Hands on physical objects**
**Models shipped from and managed by remote site**

## 3.  Collaboration

**The other BIG change**
**Beyond videoconferencing, and Chat Rooms etc**
**Tools for shared writing, thinking, designing**
**Shared environments & models**

## Collaborative Education

**Kids helping Kids**
- conversational French!
**Teachers helping Teachers**
**Distributed Classroom**
- Special Ed needs
- More specialization possible

## Some PERSONAL observations

**We can not afford the current distance from the Commercial World**
**Kids will increasingly learn more from the world about them than from “school”**
**A Dominant trend is Diversification**

## My Guess as to the Future

**Schools as we know them will disappear**
**Educational Material will be created & supplied completely remotely**
**By a mix of Educators, Entertainers, Commercial Org’s .....**
**It will not be delivered but Selected**
**Dramatic need for Values and Standards - the role of the Teachers**
**Testing will be the responsibility of the Individual and the Receiving Org**** **

## AND SO ....

**If that scares you half as much as it scares me, I hope you will participate in making it come out well**
**The only thing I am sure of is that I am UNDERESTIMATING the change!**

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## Remote Scanning Electron Microscope

**University of Michigan**

## Philips XL30

- Philips XL30

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## Slide 24

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## Teleimmersion

**University of Illinois-Chicago**
**University of Illinois-NCSA**
**Old Dominion University**

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## Immersadesk

- Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

## More Info ...

**www.internet2.edu**
**apps.internet2.edu/talks/ **
**abilene@internet2.edu **