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Broadband Applications Brainstorming
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| Applications | Videoconferencing | Communications | Remote Access |
| Facilitate and enhance inter-institutional collaboration (for example, broadband can be used to share scarce teacher resources between schools and colleges via high-speed interactive videoconferencing) | |||
| link different institutions in a cost-effective way to create innovative joint projects that encourage communication and cooperation | |||
| Widen access to educational material and new learning opportunities by using links from schools to the wider communities, such as libraries, museums, theaters and other cultural institutions. | |||
| provide access to educational materials to learners with disabilities or behavioral problems | |||
| Intranet – Student access at home | |||
| Virtual Campus | |||
| Encompass resources outside school using streaming video, multimedia and collaborative software tools | |||
| Integrate Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and e-learning into curriculums | |||
| computer-based learning | |||
| web based learning | |||
| virtual classrooms | |||
| digital collaboration | |||
| Interactive learning modules and games that reinforce learning as well as printable activity sheets. | |||
| Offer upper secondary courses | |||
| Online learning is a subset of these e-learning projects that uses the internet, intranets and extranets. | |||
| Improve efficiency and productivity for management of education programs: | |||
| Streamline reporting and administration | |||
| Automate the administration and management of schools | |||
| Deliver curriculum details and examination results to students in a more efficient way | |||
| Enable human resources to be shared (a single skilled teacher can reach widely dispersed student populations) thus reducing the need for large teaching staffs and eliminate travel costs | |||
Some key issues for higher education: · perform collaborative research with colleagues in other institutions, including grid computing | |||
| provision of internet access for large numbers of students simultaneously | |||
| the development and delivery of online or distance education | |||
| use the internet to access research information and online journals | |||
| communicate with colleagues all over the world | |||
| modeling and data visualization in research to better understand complex processes, especially in fields such as environmental science and biotechnology | |||
Possible Survey Questions: How many students have Internet access at home. Is it dial-up, cable, DSL,etc. | |||
| Institutional "Portal" | |||
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