Several NSF Programmes
Digital Library
Information Technology Research
International Office
EHR Programs

Various models of International Collaboration

School of Tomorrow: Workforce development/HCI/Social Impact in ITR
                    EHR Research ROLE 
                    Note "cost-effective" requirement
                   
$1 Million from US  

prometeus.org

Best Practice focus
  Do after project!
  Good questions are more reasonable but even these change
  Comparitive Studies

Next Effort: Sixth Framework 2003

Why do this work? Benefit.

NSF Using European reviewers as air fares cheaper from Europe

Rebecca Alden is doing a project (COACT) to collect data from
other EU projects

"Context" ==== Perspective important (Culture dependence)

Like multi-lingual review

Disabled students
   Italy requires all students to attend same schools
   but technology designed for average student
   US+Europe increases market size

In fact total educational market not very profitable
	at least for innovation
	book publishers (Scholastic) make money!

WebCT succeeded as robust and "lowest common denominator"

What about a discussion of network needs

One or Two per joint projects per working group

Distance Education
	Testbed
	Assessment
	Technology ** 3D User Interface
	User v. Technology v. Content ** need models for all of them
	Technology versus Information services and resources

Schlager: Learning takes place outside course: over pizza in dorm room
One Project: multiple approaches in same playground
Digital Libraries are core and should be organized around principles
of how information organized
Mary Thomas: Computing Portals

What is tested in a testbed
Students often ask same question -- need to capture
Learner Centered ** Students only care about grades
Connect cultures together
Pedagogically neutral

cross atlantic testbed
"Testbed in USA" paired with "Testbed in Europe"

Moses says:
Employers have never complained about knowledge of students
Only complain about "communication skills"


Meta level: Impact of Global Infomation Infrastructure on Society
            Cultural differences
            Problems that are same in both cultures
            
Testbeds -- infrastructure + experiments
Information Resources and Services
Evaluation

Greg Moses replacing large lectures by videocasts
He will do project based learning labs instead (groups of 4 students)

Comments on 3 "projects"
"Information Resources and Services" too general

What about the Open University

School of Tomorrow
US Testbeds: ESCOT
EU Testbeds: SchoolNet

"Compare Models of Networks of Schools"

Policy framework in EU for infrastructure very useful

Learning Management interesting for Lifelong learning

DiGiano: www.escot.org www.mathforum.org
Moses: PACI EOT
Emiliani: Impact of technology on People -- start with people not technology 
          Multi capability Interface (Blind, non-blind)
Balacheff: Education Economy
Maurer: Hyperwave (commercial), HyperG: Web Server + Database for Powerpoint etc.
        Scribble on document, questions/answers
Sanz: School Internet Access/Portal
Gomez: Chicago/Detroit Schools Middle years Science Curriculum
Lathrop: Teacher Preparation
Wason:IMS(Educause) Technology Standards now a non profit organization
Carneiro: Multimedia School Material
Borgman: GIS and Digital libraries
Mayes: Use computers properly
??: PC anywhere + web site + video conferencing for distance teaching
Schlager: Tapped In Testbed Many years of experience, Established Community SRI supplis Help desks
          Interested in new communitis
          Wants to build Tapped In from scratch -- interested in "platform" researchers
Klawe: UBC Computer Games Girls versus Boys
Pehnson Intranet linking learning labs; tools (video-conferencing, asynchronous learning)
		City Network owned by users
Rohrbach: Virtual Reality; Intelligent Agents
Fischer: Latent Semantic Analysis / Agent Sheets now part of ESCOT
Alden: Prometeus and further Web Sites
Sandberg: Digital Divide; Certification
Van Lehn: CIRCLE center computer supported tutoring
Bruns: Computer based labs (real construction of circuits plus simulations) Physics
Prudhomme: Collaborative Environments of future ( scalable group to group multi-point)
           ISAAC Persistent Virtual spaces future of collaboration -- collaboration
           is ongoing and you join and rejoin.
           Observers plus collaboraters -- not a meeting
           Datamining
           Remote access to instruments

Vocational Training

EU-US Portal
Projects

Monitoring group
1 US 1 Europe per project (4 of these)

Next Meeting: End of July or September
Portugal before June 30
France after June 30