Courses at Jackson State
Taught using Tango since fall 97 over Internet and defense high performance network DREN twice a week from Syracuse
- Course material based on Syracuse Senior Undergraduate class CPS406(Web Technologies) and graduate classes CPS615/616/640(Base Computational science/Internetics)
- Curricula, Homework, Grading, Facilities done by Syracuse
- Students get JSU NOT Syracuse Credit
Jackson State major HBC University with many computer science graduates
Do not compete with base courses but offer addon courses with “leading edge” material (Web Technology, modern scientific computing) which give JSU (under)graduates skills that are important in their career
Needs guaranteed 30 (audio) to 100 (video) kilobits per second bandwidth
- Use a proxy server or mirror site
- Actually get around one megabit/sec Syracuse to Jackson State
Current Semester offered to 40 students in 5 distant places and separately 40 at Syracuse