Focused Effort Title:  New Directions in Distance Education and Training

PI Name: David Bernholdt
PI EMail Address: bernhold@npac.syr.edu
PI Telephone: 315 443 3857       PI Fax: 315 443 1973

Project Description: 

This project is intended to continue and extend our Distance Education
efforts with Jackson State University.  We will extend Tango to
support "higher-level" course materials, including support for
JavaBeans and Java applets embedded in web pages, glossaries,
interactive quizzes, etc.  We will develop coursware in basic parallel
computing which demonstrates these capabilities and deliver it both as
an academic class and in condensed form as a training.  We will
present a Distance Education Workshop to encourage wider use of Tango
within JSU and elsewhere.

Accomplishments:

The Distance Education Workshop is tentatively planned for the week of
16 August, to be hosted by Jackson State University.  We expect the
dates to be finalized shortly.

Work proceeds on the Tango enhancements.  Much of the required
functionality will be implemented using dynamic HTML (DHTML).  We have a
working prototype DHTML shared browser, but it is not yet robust
enough for general use.

Plans:

We are making plans for the fall class offering.  We have narrowed the
class down to two that we teach regularly -- one at an undergraduate
level, the other more aimed at the graduate level.  We plan in the
near future to invite other institutions to participate in the class
and will poll them on their class preferences before making a final
decision.

Problems:

no problems