EOT Accomplishments
Learning Technology
We have carefully studied our Tango collaboration system and the
current commercial systems: Netmeeting, WebEx, Placeware, Centra.
We have designed and prototyped a new education collaboratory based
on these lessons. It features integration of asynchronous and
synchronous collaboration by use of a common publish/subscribe message
service. This universal infrastructure enables convenient archiving.
It has the lessons of work with Trace Center to enable universal access.
This uses Gilman's idea that UA can be built as a collaboration between
multiple clients assigned to a given user. We are testing this with
collaboration between handheld and desktop devices.
The expected requirement of sharing high quality authored curricula
is implemented as a shared SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) viewer. This is
supported by Adobe now and we expect Macromedia and Powerpoint SVG exports.
We expect to link our collaboratory to the Access Grid for multimedia
conferencing.

Outreach: The collaboration technology is core to work with Indian Nation
on building collaborative environments. We attended two multi-day
meetings organized by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium
AIHEC or rather their High technology Committee led by Tom Davis and Jack
Briggs. We developed the concept of a "Digital Indigenous Homeland"
designed to allow members of tribes participate in the modern economy
from their homelands. We are preparing follow-on proposals
We continue to work with Jackson State University (JSU) and other HBCU's on
design and use of distance learning environments. JSU expects to
install an Access Grid node.


Publications:
Geoffrey C. Fox, From Computational Science to Internetics: 
Integration of Science with Computer Science,
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier, 54 (2000) 295-306 . 

Mehmet Sen, PhD Thesis November 2000 on "Distributed Asynchronous
Information Systems for Education"

Several Presentations and Internal Memos can be found at:
http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/collabtools/