Focused Effort Title:
Distance Education for Curricula Enhancement
Thematic Area(s): Education, HBCU/MI Interactions
PI Name: Dr. David Bernholdt (NPAC-Syracuse)
PI EMail Address: bernhold@npac.syr.edu
PI Telephone: (315) 443-3857 PI Fax: (315) 443-1973
Statement of Work: During Year Two, Syracuse delivered training at CEWES and two full-semester academic courses at Jackson State University. In addition to the academic benefits, this project provided a wealth of practical experience in the design and delivery of educational materials at a distance. In Year Three, Syracuse will deploy these technologies to the DoD community itself in a separate "Distance Training" Focused Effort proposal, but they will also continue and expand work with Jackson State University. Syracuse will expand course offerings to include a graduate level class focused on HPC (Syracuse's CPS615). They will also include other sites by providing technical support to Jackson State University in the remote delivery of courses. After the courses in Year Two, Jackson State is confident that it can deliver using Tango the curricula developed by Syracuse to other HBCU/MI schools. NPAC will provide necessary support for technical and academic content of JSU courses.
Deliverables:
• Deliver CPS615 to JSU (Fall 1998)
• Contributions to PET bi-weekly and Annual reports (every two weeks according to schedule and March 1999)
• Presentations for PET Mid-Year and Annual Reviews (August 1998, January 1999)
• On-going technical support for JSU distance education activities
• "Pre-print" report on results of effort (March 1999)
Funding: $105,000, including travel
Expenditure Profile:
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
$8K $8K $8K $8K $8K $12.5K $8K $8K $8K $8K $12.5K $8K