Post on 12-May-2015
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Now that We Have Broadband . . . Mickey Slimp Executive Director, Northeast Texas Consortium of Colleges and Universities mickey.slimp@netnet.org
903-571-0892
Access to the world at large is the dream of every educator. With the expansion of ARE-ON, the Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network to include nearly all of the state’s two-year colleges, we now have it! Let’s explore together what we can do.
What are we going to do?
• Identify what broadband is.
• Learn about YOUR broadband –details
• Find ways to use broadband
• Guidelines for putting it in place
• What’s next?
The Northeast Texas Consortium of Colleges & Universities – NETnet
• Sixteen college and
universities sites with over 60,000 students
• Enabled over 22,000 college enrollments per semester
The Northeast Texas Consortium of Colleges & Universities – NETnet
• Trains over 450
college faculty and staff per year
• Manages a regional ISD collaborative SUPERnet, serving 64,000 students.
Broadband Density
Wired
Connectivity in
Arkanasas
www.connect-arkansas.org
www.itcnetwork.org
An American Association of Community Colleges council supporting
the growth of distance learning.
www.onlinestudentsupport.org/Monograph/
(http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org/
Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
1. Cloud Computing
2. Mobile Apps
3. Social Reading
4. Tablet Computing
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
1. Adaptive Learning Environments
2. Augmented Reality
3. Game-Based Learning
4. Learning Analytics
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
1. Digital Identity
2. Gesture-Based Computing
3. Haptic Interfaces
4. Internet of Things
Broadband Impact
Broadband Impact
Tablet PC’s and Readers
Broadband Impact
Broadband Impact
Learning “Analytics”
Use of Evidence to Improve Programs and Services
The college establishes processes for using data about student progression and out-comes to identify achievement gaps among student groups, formulates strategies for addressing the gaps identified and improving student success overall, and evaluates the effectiveness of those strategies.
Broadband Impact
Gaming, Simulation, and Scenarios
Shared Advanced Teaching Resources
Med Education Simulation Technology
www.breakawayltd.com/serious-games/overview/
Professional Resources
The Texas Network for Teaching Excellence
www.theTexasNetwork.org
Access to Primary Sources
National Poet Laureate Phillip Levine
Internet2 K-20 Initiative 2012
For more information, contact JamesAWerle@gmail.com
Also see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/levine/
Performance Opportunities
Internet2 LOLA Performance Demonstration
Internet2 Fall Meeting 2012
http://www.internet2.edu/arts/LOLA.html
Now that We Have Broadband:
Mickey Slimp Executive Director, Northeast Texas Consortium 903-571-0892 Mickeyslimp@netnet.org