Transcript telephony tools

Integrating Collaborative Tools
StateNets Annual Conference
February 13, 2008
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• Three years ago, MCNC and the NCREN
community began an earnest effort
focused on developing the best possible
plan for collaboration tools.
• A large group of volunteers representing
many disciplines found in the universities
met, talked, outlined, wrote, and refined
the plan.
Video conference
class at WCU
• This and the following slide was our
starting point.
Video control room
at MCNC in RTP, NC
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• Provides centrally managed and coordinated
services among universities and other institutions
• Enables fully interactive, face-to-face, live
discussions among sites
• Supports up to 23 sites in a single conference
• Interoperates 4 different audio/video techniques
• NCREN integration of Video-over-IP (Internet
Protocol) provides optimum flexibility:
– Point-to-point MPEG2 video sessions
– Point-to-point H.323 video sessions
– Multi-point H.323 sessions
– Gateways to NC State Gov’t (ITS) network
– Ability to blend various video technologies
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The NCREN Collaborative Services
Workgroup engaged the statewide
community and used scenarios from The
E-Learning Commission Report for North
Carolina. Here are a couple of
examples.
And the following scenario was also used to
show the power of collaboration tools.
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. The working group has identified the
following collaborative services as high
priorities for the higher education
community in North Carolina in the near
term.
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Service
Examples
Why?
Standards-based video, telephony and data services,
including a directory, regional program
support, and high quality interactive
programming
H.323, H.320 bridge, H.264, SIP, XMPP,
CATV over IP, Video network
control for point to point and point
to multipoint programs
Proactively plan for next generation video,
telephony and data technologies
Learning Management System (LMS) hosting,
administration, and integration with other
learning technology services
WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle
Support collaborative licensing, efficient use
of technical/support resources, and
joint course/degree programs; shared
knowledge base
Synchronous Learning Management System
(SLMS)/collaboration tool hosting and selfscheduling
Centra, Elluminate, Horizon Wimba,
BreezeLive, Camtasia, Oracle
Collaboration Suite
Support identified needs for active learning,
science education, internships and
service learning, group collaboration,
employee training, and research
Content Management Systems, including search,
archiving, storage capabilities for audio, video
services
Harvest Road, Stellent, Artesia
investigations for digital assets, learning
object repositories
Support content, knowledge and resources
sharing; learning object repositories
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Emerging technologies and potential services include:
• Classroom capture
• Collaborative writing tools (e.g. Wikis)
• Web-based broadcast services (e.g. podcasting,
streaming), including the cataloging and
archiving of those service
• Virtual communities and social networks (e.g.
Facebook, video blogs, Second Life, Croquet)
• Utility services such as email and calendaring
• Instant Messaging
• New or non-IP based video services such as
MPEG, High Definition TV, TV over RF
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A set of recommendations was developed in
the first year, and then refined for each of
the following two years. These
recommendations are…
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And now, we’ve formed the following task
groups:
Governance
Web Conferencing
Digital Media Asset Licensing
Video Conferencing
Classroom Capture
LearnNC meets Higher Ed.
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Thanks!
John Killebrew
[email protected]