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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Li at China Trip Dec 27 97 - Jan 6 98 on January 5 98. Foils prepared January 8 98
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| This describes the plans of NPAC (Fox) and Peking University (Li) to set up an International Collaborative Web University and offer initial courses |
| Initial plans are a 6 course Graduate Internetics Program and a 2 course Web/Java High School Program |
| Students and Instruction will be spread over at least 6 institutions |
| NPAC and Several Chinese Universities are already committed and we expect other Asian U.S. and European participation |
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International Distance Education Certificate in Internetics
What is ICWU?
Goals of ICWU
What is Internetics ?
Features and Concepts of ICWU - I
Features and Concepts of ICWU - II
Features and Concepts of ICWU - III
Resources Needed by ICWU
Responsibilities of Participating Organizations
Business Model of ICWU
Governing Organization of ICWU
Initial Implementation Plan for Internetics Program
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: K-12
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Undergraduate
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives
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| A Program of the International Collaborative Web University (ICWU) |
| Xiaoming Li Peking University Beijing China |
| Geoffrey Fox NPAC, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY USA |
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| Not for Profit Collaboration pioneering world wide distance education |
Targeting Curricula not typically available in most Universities
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| 1)Prototype and accelerate the Internet/Web University |
| 2)Test and develop distributed educational objects |
| 3)Further International cooperation |
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| Emerging field centered on technologies services and applications enabling and enabled by world wide communication and computing grids |
| The contents come from Computer Communication and Information science fields but with an applied flavor so forms critical knowledge needed by many application fields such as scientific computing, telemedicine, electronic commerce, digital journalism and education |
| Students with an interdisciplinary background will be encouraged |
| The applied focus with many totally new and rapidly evolving technologies makes Internetics unique |
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| 1)Background of students -- comfortable with computers -- and includes both computer science another fields such as engineering, physics or chemistry. |
| 2)Offered Synchronously or Asynchronously with teacher involved (i.e. not only self-study), homework, projects etc. |
| 3)All course material (lectures and background material) on the Web |
| 4)Maybe some course material has security restrictions |
| 5)Commercially available books can be used and students are responsible for purchase |
| 6)Replicated Web Servers and CD-ROMS will be available |
| 7)Academic content and quality of courses will be monitored through online assessment and access logs on Web material. |
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| 8)Delivery language is English -- Does this restrict too much lecturers who can be involved? |
| 9)Course material must satisfy some constraints so that it is compatible with delivery technology |
| 10)All student and curricula material will be stored in a database |
| 11)Participating Institutions -- Universities providing students, teachers, resources, mentors -- Research organizations like NPAC or NCSA/CRPC -- Industry supplying employees as Students -- sponsoring Industry for resources (equipment and funds) -- Government Agencies |
| 12)All students must be assigned to a "participating Institution" which may be remote from student. The assigned institution is responsible for grading and mentoring. Ratio of students to mentors/graders should be quite small initially. Another constraint is on central resources and as number of students increases, central resources must increase |
| 13)Training in tools and curricula Sessions will be offered for mentors and graders |
| 14)Teachers can deliver lectures and/or mentor students |
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| 15)Mentors are responsibility of participating Universities and mentoring/grading can be done in languages other than English |
| 16)Graders can be used |
| 17)Broad International Range for Institutions, Teachers and Students |
| 18)Certificates jointly signed by participating institutions |
| 19)"Assignment of University Credit" is optional and if done, is responsibility of individual Universities and may involve tuition. |
| 20)We will try to get high level international government endorsement/support |
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| Central (albeit distributed) Compute Servers will be supplied by selected participating institutions e.g. for homework and examples on CGI, Databases etc. |
Appropriate networking is essential.
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| Identifying agreed number of participating students |
| Providing agreed services (Complete timely Web ready curricula, Course Delivery, Mentoring, Grading, Compute Resources, Internet Connection) |
| Monitoring intellectual and technical quality of service delivery |
| Nominating single point of contact |
| Signing ICWU certificates for all successful students |
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| 1)There will be initially no central funding mechanism (e.g. no direct tuition paid to the ICWU). Rather the participating institutions will be expected to contribute and obtain resources in an independent fashion. |
| 2)Responsibilities and benefits should be assigned fairly among participating Institutions but the arrangements can be different in each case. |
| 3)Participating Universities may charge their students tuition and grant University credit to successful students. |
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| 1)There will be a Board of Trustees or Advisory Committee |
| 2)There will be an Operational Council with at least one member from each participating organization, which oversees ICWU Activities |
| 3)The operational council is responsible for ensuring quality of curricula and delivery is that expected of a leading university and they should prepare material for board of trustees to document this |
| 4)Operational council must prepare any detailed requirements such as framework for preparing Web material |
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| 1)Summer 98 Training and planning session |
| 2)First Offering for Graduate is Fall 98 -- 3 courses per semester for 2 semesters |
| 3)First Offering for K-12 is Fall 98 -- Once a week -- one course per semester |
4)Participating organizations will come from China (2 or 3), Japan or other Asian country, U.K., U.S.A.
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| K-12 is Middle and High School Students |
These 2 courses must be passed to obtain Certificate
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| See NPAC's Java Academy at http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring98/ |
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These 4 courses must be passed to obtain Certificate
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| Graduate and Continuing Education have same curriculum with 4 core and 2 electives needed for certificate |
| Core Courses (total 4 courses) |
(There will also be a "booster course" offered to students who have taken the Undergraduate certificate so they can "place out" of graduate core course)
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| Need to take 2 electives |
Computer Science Electives
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Application Electives:
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