SMA Distance Education Luncheon

April 14, 2004

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions

• SMA Distance Education update

• Videoconferencing from Home Program

• Discussion

SMA DE Update

• New SMA website

• Faculty Liaisons are now part of the SMA Team

• Faculty satisfaction survey

Videoconferencing from Home Program

• Enables SMA faculty to conduct high-quality videoconferences with NUS and NTU from home

• What is required to join– Broadband Internet access from home, i.e. Comcast– A PC with Win XP or Win 2000– A PC-based personal videoconferencing unit such as ViaVideo or

ViGO• SMA’s loaner program

– A small number of ViGOs available for a 2-3 week trial• Technical support

– Installation documentation on the SMA website– Videoconferencing units to be self-installed– First line of support from SMA’s FLs, Molly and Peter– Second line of support from AMPS

Document Sharing

• Use of NetMeeting documented in the instructions

• Proven, familiar capability to share and annotate documents

• Whiteboarding functionality built-in with an electronic pen or with recommended writing tools– Demonstration

Home NUS or

NTU

MIT Internet 2 SingAREN

VPN Implementation at MIT

Videoconferencing Home Solutions

Commodity Links

High Latency (delay)

Packet Loss (freezing)

Internet2 Links

Low Latency

Minimal Packet Loss

Local Links

Minimal Latency

Minimal Packet Loss

Home

NUS or

NTUMIT Internet 2 SingAREN

Home

Commodity Links

High Latency (delay)

Packet Loss (freezing)

Internet2 Links

Low Latency

Minimal Packet Loss

Local Links

Minimal Latency

Minimal Packet Loss

VPN Implementation in Singapore

Beaming from Level5 Classrooms

Videoconferencing from Home

Network speed 384kbps Network speed 128kbps

High-quality VC equipment w/dedicated codecs, highest quality cameras, mics, speakers

Inexpensive PC-based VC add-on kits w/off-the-shelf cameras, mics and PC-based compression

Internet2 and associated services from MIT to NUS, NTU

Commodity Internet from home to MIT, rest of route Internet2 and associated services

Professionally designed facilities including lighting, background, etc.

Home office not designed for videoconferencing

Factors Impacting Performance

Questions to the Faculty

• Your interest in the Program• Your interest in the stand-alone

videoconferencing appliance (~$3,000)• Document sharing requirements

– Reviewing a document– Annotating– Using the whiteboard function with additional

pen input devices– Using the document camera (ViGO)