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Internet2 and K-20 Networks
Bill Mitchell
Louis Fox
Executive Director
Vice Provost
MOREnet
University of Washington
A Gathering of State Networks
Denver, Colorado
April, 2001
Caveats
• The following is a work in progress!
• Based on a numerous preliminary conversations with
& among many, but not nearly enough, parties
• Largely our attempts to synthesize what we are
hearing wrt interests, possibilities & common ground
• An amalgam of views, and not to be construed as
official or final, or anyone’s thinking other than our own
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Archives for I2-NEWS
I2-NEWS: Thousands of Educational
Institutions to Connect to Internet2
Backbone Network
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THOUSANDS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO CONNECT
TO INTERNET2 BACKBONE NETWORK
Partnerships with Internet2 Universities and Regional Networks
Provide Broad Access to High-Performance Networks …
Background & Context
• 1969: ARPAnet:
+ CS research community
• 1987: NSFnet:
+ Research Universities
• Early ‘90’s:
+ Very few pilot K12 & CC
• ‘Privatization’:
+ business & gov’t etc.
• Mid-Late ’90’s:
+ 4 year, CCs, K12, e-rate
• 1999:
+ Internet2 core deployed
sites
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Some Lessons Learned:
• The more innovators brought on board early 
the greater the possibility of progress
• The more broadly shared the tech platforms and
tools  the greater the leverage
• A disproportionate share of important innovations
came from the .edu realm
• There were many important opportunities for the
use of tech in teaching, learning & access
• We need to do a better job of evaluation and
timely communication
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So
• This time the research community wants to bring interested
K12, CC’s, Colleges, Libraries and Museums, etc. to the
table as early as possible
• Find ways to share ideas, results, technology, and other
information among all as broadly and as well as possible
• Do a better job of enabling not just the research, technology
and clinical communities, but also education, education
research, arts and cultural communities to engage the
opportunities of the new technologies
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Some Relevant Communities
• SEGP - State “K20” networks
• K12 & K20 Schools & Faculty
• ‘Beltway’ Societies & Associations with global perspectives
• Key Sponsored Research Agencies, e.g. NSF
• Education & Learning Research including think tanks,
research groups, national academies
• UCAID- I2 Organization
• I2 members
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SEGP’s, an immediate priority and key partner:
• Five initial “K20’s” are Michigan, Missouri, Oregon,
Virginia, & Washington based groups
• In process are Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Rhode Island
• Expecting a dozen or more others
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I2-K20-SEGP to do’s
• Bring K20 innovators into appropriate I2 ‘workgroups’, creating
new ones where warranted
• Develop mechanisms for enabling quick, pervasive technology
diffusion & transfer
• Get interested and capable SEGP’s connected & properly
engaged in workgroups and projects etc.
• Create mechanisms for better evaluation and timely
communications
• Where there is interest and realistic opportunity, including
appropriate experts in learning and education etc, help enable
experiments of innovative ‘deployments’ of advanced technologies
in education (‘Expeditions’?) at SEGP sites, i.e., LENS ?
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LENS?
I2-K20 ‘LENS’ Notion
LENS (Learning Expeditions in Networked Systems) is
a concept being talked about as an I2-k20 effort to
enable and coordinate some key, well-conceived and
well-informed ‘expeditions’, (i.e., collaborative
projects) that aim to explore the ways in which
Internet2 based advanced network applications,
services, and content can be employed to enhance
teaching, learning and access to education.
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LENS ? continued
What Makes This Unique?
• It is about the intersection of educational research,
practice and a new generation of advanced network
capabilities.
• learning sciences and education, etc. as well as
technology
• LENS is not just about using transformative
technologies, but using them in transformative ways
• It is where the interests of higher education & K12
communities, libraries, museums, government as
well as technologists and research and corporate
partners converge
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LENS ? continued
LENS ‘Expedition’ Focus?
• Target persistent educational challenges
• Intellectual intersection among the participating communities
- reciprocity
• Use important advanced network services, content &/or
applications
• Harness potential for distributed & parallel work effort 
national, state, local
• Work at the leading edge but with realistic expectations
• Coalescing a community that will sustain itself
• Collaboration, evaluation, and communications are critical
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LENS ? continued
A Vision of Possible I2-K20
Synergies, and “Expeditions”
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Learning Centered
Applications & Digital Content
Activities oriented towards exploring pedagogical uses of advanced networks,
or where advanced networks have a significant enabling impact
or role, including digital libraries, online museums, etc.
Support
Activities oriented towards understanding uses of advanced networks in
human capacity building at many levels such as professional development,
training, technical support,assessment, dissemination of knowledge,
definition of supporting job descriptions, etc.
Tools and Services
Activities oriented towards defining and developing software enablers of
advanced networking, such as middleware, meta-languages, quality of
service, database management, resource discovery tools, etc.
Transport
Activities oriented towards the understanding, definition, creation,
and operation of infrastructures that can support large-scale
implementation of other activities in the framework, that is, activities
in the three strata above. Transport itself has multiple layers including:
local campus/school WANS/LANS; county/regional consortia
WANS/LANS; state education networks; and the national
Abilene Network
I2-K20 Overall
Crucial to:
• Identify and connect interested innovators across k20 to
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I2 workgroups etc.
Get the participants/sites connected that we need to
achieve I2 member and I2 partner goals
Create good coordination, feedback, and communications
mechanisms
Leverage Internet culture (‘loose collaboration and
working code”)
Build in quality evaluation and communication modalities
Work with appropriate communities and experts to identify
high payoff LENS “Expeditions” for innovative
deployment of next generation technologies, content
services and applications in education. E.g. ….
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I2-K20 Overall
Some Possible “Expedition” Areas?
• Develop network-based tools, frameworks, and
communities of practice to facilitate on-going professional
development for K-20 educators, and in particular teacher
induction practices
• Incorporate access to remote instrumentation into science
education
• Define and develop scalable protocols and policies for
educational uses of public databases and facilitate the
development, distribution, and management of tools that
make use of digital information and content
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A Missouri Example
Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Voters: Digital
Discovery, Collaboration and Understanding
Fourth-grade students will work as historical researchers
and sociologists as they attempt to identify important
social issues facing American citizens as well as issues
facing the new President of the United States. Through
participation in collaborative synchronous and
asynchronous activities using a Web-based tool called
Shadow netWorkspace, students across the nation will
have access to a wealth of online historical information
available in rich multimedia formats from Presidential
libraries and public television stations.
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A Washington Example
• In Washington we are forming a partnership of the UW, the
Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State
Board of Community & Technical Colleges, leading districts
and schools, private sector partners, and others.
• The goals:
Mount a statewide effort to participate in I2 related efforts to
pioneer and evaluate the possibilities of next generation
content, materials, applications and/or services in support
of teaching, learning, and professional development and
improved access to learning opportunities.
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Progress Report
• Ongoing series of discussions to build a common
community and understanding about the efforts
• Two large meetings in D.C. to brainstorm wrt LENS ideas
• One meeting of state networks in Seattle to brainstorm
how state networks can participate
• Developed the framework concept
• Beginning to focus on ‘what’ needs to be done, ‘who’ will
do it, and then ‘how’ it will be done
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Current Status
• UCAID willing to be catalyst & convener, providing financial and
organizational assistance during start-up
• Many organizations at the table
• Small group being formed to guide the effort
• Louis Fox and Bill Mitchell, so far….
• I2-K20 schema including LENS notion, organizing structure(s)
and work plans are in development
• Tentative goals include:
• Bring the key players into a dialog
• Identify and get relevant innovators participating in appropriate I2
workgroups,
• Figure out how to get quality evaluation and communication
• Identify important possibilities for expeditions
• Participants deploying I2 technologies will also do great things
among themselves!
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So where are we?
I2 –K20 Offers:
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Next Generation Internet Technologies
High Performance National & International Backbone Net.
High Performance Regional Access Hubs (‘GigaPoPs’)
Middleware Infrastructure technology & pilots
An extensive Broadband R&D Fabric
Workgroups with an amazing expertise in a wide array of key
areas of opportunity wrt Advanced Apps., Network R&D,
Advanced Content & Services (incl. learning materials)
• A Broadband Testbed with > 1 million people who have at least
megabit to their desks and dorm rooms [plus areas with local
peering with cable & dsl and wireless-broadband]
• An interest in, and the technology basis for, collaborating with
experts in education in experimentation with uses of advanced
network services, applications and content in education
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I2 Community is Seeking:
• Sets of partnerships and collaborations across a wide
range of areas which leverage I2 technologies and
networks and are likely to facilitate teaching, learning, and
access including:
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Advanced content/repositories & heuristics
Advanced applications
Middleware collaborations
Advanced network services
Related research, evaluation, & information sharing
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Eager to Pursue Ambitious but Realistic
Collaborations including:
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Content/materials & capture and repositories
H.323 and future interactive video and multimedia technologies
Multicast – low to high end
‘Digital Video’
Voice over IP
Middleware
End-to-end performance & network aware applications etc
Computational Grid
Broad array of applications areas
Learning Technology Projects
IPv6
Related K-20 ‘upgrades’ (e.g. Broadband Pricing Workgroup)
etc.
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We need to get started on those!
But What About ?
• Other Education Sites/Groups et al eager to participate in
creating, deploying or evolving advanced content,
services, materials &/or applications?
• The collective needs for various .edu-wide capabilities
(e.g., interoperable ‘middleware’ infrastructure, end-to-end
performance for applications/content)
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Q&A and discussion
• www.internet2.edu/abilene
• [email protected]
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