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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston on Dec 4, 1996. Foils prepared Dec 2 1996
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We discuss NHSE and education and compare their use and implementation with Web technology
We describe current Best of Practice ideas as used in such projects as the Cornell Virtual Workshop and courses at Syracuse University
We review relevant technologies focusing on collaboration and the Virtual (Web) Software environments
We comment on tension between highly refined reviews and low hit rate full Web Searches

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1 Some Comments on NHSE and its relation to Education in use of Web and web Technologies
2 Abstract of NHSE and Education with Web Technologies
3 NHSE and Education
4 Web Based Education Framework
5 Overall Approach and Features - I
6 Overall Approach and Features - II
7 What is the Best of Practice?
8 Technologies for Education/NHSE- I
9 Technologies for Education/NHSE- II
10 Some Areas of Greatest Uncertainty/Opportunity -- Collaboration
11 Some Areas of Greatest Uncertainty/Opportunity -- Collaborative/Interactive Software
12 Software Capabilities Relevant for the NHSE -- I
13 Software Capabilities Relevant for the NHSE -- II
14 Review Article versus Database Search?

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 Some Comments on NHSE and its relation to Education in use of Web and web Technologies

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Geoffrey Fox
NHSE Review at CRPC - Rice University
December 4, 1996
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Foil 2 Abstract of NHSE and Education with Web Technologies

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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We discuss NHSE and education and compare their use and implementation with Web technology
We describe current Best of Practice ideas as used in such projects as the Cornell Virtual Workshop and courses at Syracuse University
We review relevant technologies focusing on collaboration and the Virtual (Web) Software environments
We comment on tension between highly refined reviews and low hit rate full Web Searches
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Foil 3 NHSE and Education

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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As the Web -- technologies and its use -- evolve rapidly with major commercial and world-wide activity
Need to focus on adding value and
  • Not competing unnecessarily
  • Taking advantage where possible of improved Web functionality
Domain Specific Information and tailoring of Web Tools is:
  • Software and HPCC Information for NHSE
  • Domain and Use of Web Technologies for NHSE is very synergistic with education and training
  • In particular with Computational Science education
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Foil 4 Web Based Education Framework

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Best of Practice Use of Web for Education and Training
Curricula
Technologies
HPCC and Web
Community Activities
Evaluation and Assessment
Proactive Outreach to general and special
Communities
National Computational Resources
Implement on/with
Listen to the Drumbeat of the Web!
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Foil 5 Overall Approach and Features - I

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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HPCC interacts with NHSE roadmaps, training and education/outreach in two distinct ways
  • Communicate information about HPCC and computational science
  • Use HPCC(Web) technologies to enhance dissemination and user interfaces
Identify Best of Practice in HPCC Information and Education
  • Cornell's Virtual Workshop well regarded -- NPAC works closely with Theory Center in Education
  • Fox asked to review UK HPCC Education Program next week ….
  • We use material/technology in courses ...
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Foil 6 Overall Approach and Features - II

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Attend National Conferences in Web and (Computational Science) education
Note Web is a distributed "uncontrolled' environment and it is very important to listen to the "drumbeat of the Web" and take advantage of best new ideas wherever it comes from!
  • It is "the World's" Web and not "any one group's"
  • emphasis should be on flexibility and usability and not a seamless interface as rapid distributed evolution of the Web means we must be able to incorporate new technologies
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Foil 7 What is the Best of Practice?

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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There is an evolving collection of "best of practice" techniques, tools, and methodologies
This currently includes (for education):
  • Database support for search and storage
  • Existence of material at several levels of abstraction so can use by teachers, students and users with different backgrounds
  • Animated illustrations and simulations
  • Glossaries and annotated software
  • Backend compute resource and virtual programming lab
  • Quizzes and Mentors for education.(Are mentors useful as part of NHSE like repositories?)
  • Usability analysis and evaluation
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Foil 8 Technologies for Education/NHSE- I

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Web technologies have potential for interactive rich environments which are clearly superior to existing video based conferencing and distance education
  • will enable Collaboratories(distributed research) and the Virtual University
  • finally can realize promise of computer use in education!
Java Collaboration systems such as Habanero (NCSA), Shaking Hands(IBM) and Tango(NPAC) very important
  • needs more experimentation with different approaches
CGI scripts and client side Javascript is straight forward today
Virtual Programming Laboratory -- MPI, HPF on the Web -- deployed in Syracuse course CPS615 and next Virtual Workshop at Cornell.
  • Can be extended to test drive other software
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Foil 9 Technologies for Education/NHSE- II

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Java Applets for simulation to teach(education) or illustrate (NHSE)
  • as in Syracuse's Phy105/307 (NSF MRA) with Vector Cross Product, Ising model Java Applets etc.
Multimedia databases with database search of close captions and other text material
  • Reuters Spanish language feed in Living SchoolBook (education)
  • Library of Scientific Simulations (NHSE)
Database supported Mail, FAQ, User support etc.
  • As in NHSE Chemistry resource
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Foil 10 Some Areas of Greatest Uncertainty/Opportunity -- Collaboration

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Collaboration from batch (email) to new real-time audio/video/web text chat technologies incorporate people in discussion and explanation of information
  • In education, this potentially allows complete "virtual classroom" as adds teacher-student interaction to previous rich dissemination/storage of information
  • Note askERIC is successful example of use of human mentors to augment electronic information resource (used by 20,000 teachers for educational info)
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Foil 11 Some Areas of Greatest Uncertainty/Opportunity -- Collaborative/Interactive Software

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Interactive Software which allows you to either test-drive or use in a compute server format to execute specific software
Can link Collaborative and Interactive Software with either
  • Extending Java Collaborative Server Session Managers to distributed event driven simulation (TANGOSIM as Web SIMNET/DSI)
  • VRML2.0 three dimensional Virtual Worlds
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Foil 12 Software Capabilities Relevant for the NHSE -- I

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Web computing is of course "hot" area but some features are particularly relevant for the NHSE as a software repository
Examples of Interactive Web Software Capabilities
  • Very easy of course for Java -- the easy way to run Java from an "information page" is very convenient in education and makes it particularly easy to teach
  • NetSolve is a Web Compute Server especially aimed at mathematical software
  • NEOS is a good example of Optimization Compute Server
  • NCSA's Biology workbench has CGI Interface to many popular programs and data
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Foil 13 Software Capabilities Relevant for the NHSE -- II

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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Syracuse student (Kivanc Dincer) has thesis on Web based virtual programming laboratory which supports
  • MPI and HPF
  • Java for visualization of performance data (PABLO) and scientific visualization
  • VPL was used in my introductory computational science class CPS615 semester
  • It has been improved (security) and customized for the SP2 by Cornell and will be used as computational backend for their Web based "Virtual Workshop" on HPF next semester.
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Foil 14 Review Article versus Database Search?

From Master Set of Foils on Relevant Web Technologies for NHSE and Education NHSE Review Rice University -- Houston -- Dec 4, 1996. *
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There are several well understood approaches to find out information about a given subject
  • Ask an expert (This becomes Collaborative Mentor model using Java Servers on the web)
  • Read a review article -- this highly refined high value information which is inevitably somewhat out of date
  • Full Web Search withsome sort of keywords --this is poorly refined with low "hit rate" but very up to date
  • Subscribe to mailing lists
  • Limited Web Search of restricted domain
NHSE is using and linking all these approaches to achieve both high value and timeliness.
  • Most effective approach is unclear and important in many areas (outside NHSE) but tradeoff in approaches will be different in different areas.
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