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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at CILT (Center for Innovative Learning Technologies) Annual Conference San Jose on 30 April 99. Foils prepared 17 May 99
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| Lessons from use of Collaboration Systems in Education and Training |
| We give some technical and methodological lessons from use of TangoInteractive in a variety of distance learning scenarios including ongoing teaching at Jackson State Miss. from Syracuse and the Saturday Java Academy offered to middle and high school students in Boston, Houston, Starkville and Syracuse. |
| 1) Integration of synchronous and asynchronous modes is simply addressed by using web-based material which can either by directly mounted or made available through web-linked databases or server backend scripts as in NCSA's Biology Workbench. |
| 2) Importance of an underlying document object model which allows sharing of material in a way that respects both the profile of the user and the structure of the data. We show how this can be used to provide cross disability interfaces. |
| 3) Detailed analysis of TangoInteractive's shared JavaScript model as used today shows strengths and weaknesses of current W3C proposed DOM. We suggest changes based on a shared layer using XML and JavaScript, which appear sufficient to provide universal access to education. |
| 4)we note that it appears easier to provide cross disability interfaces to web material respecting the W3C DOM than to general Java applets and similar high end authoring systems which lack constraints of a DOM. |
| 5) We discuss implications for role of Professor/Teacher as lecturer and Mentor |
| This work uses Alliance applications (Biology), EOT Partners(including Trace Center and users) and Alliance Technology (TangoInteractive) |
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Collaboration and Training with Tango-Interactive
Distance Learning with Tango
TangoInteractive Features and Strategy
TangoInteractive in Education and Training
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| Tango is a fully Web integrated |
| system that can share general client side applications, web pages and output from databases and other servers |
| TangoInteractive is being deployed to support: |
Distance Education and Training which links asynchronous and synchronous modes with database or web server backend
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Collaborative Visualization and Computing
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| Deployment sponsored by DoD HPC Modernization Program and NCSA Alliance |
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Links Interactive (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) collaborative models
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| Runs on Windows 95,98,NT UNIX (Irix, Solaris, Linux) |
| Supports multi-language shared server and client applications in Java, Javabeans, C++ and JavaScript (W3C DOM) |
Supplement existing very general tools (audio-video conferencing, chats, whiteboard etc.) by specialized applications to support particular collaborative activities
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| Upgrade core technology in areas such as browser independence, security, multiple community support, archiving |
| Improve User Support and documentation |
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| Substantial Experience -- starting 4th semester of classes given twice a week from Syracuse to JackSon State |
| Just finished Middle and High School Java Academy with sites in Syracuse Boston Houston and Mississippi |
Working on universal access with Wisconsin Trace Center -- shared event model allows customized interfaces with given curriculum rendered simultaneously in different ways on different clients
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Developing research version built around XML and Jini with shared web pages supporting general model from
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