9. April 1996 GLOSAS Meeting in Philadelphia

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
THIRD DEMONSTRATION AND DISCUSSION MEETING ON
"TOWARD GLOBAL ELECTRONIC DISTANCE EDUCATION"

at
University City Science Center
3624 Market Street, First Floor East
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel: 215-387-2255; Fax: 215-382-0056, April 19 and 20, 1996

PURPOSE:

This meeting is being held

1. to present the activities of GLOSAS/GU/CAADE and "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" to the delegates of Finnish higher education institutions for their forming a Global University/Finland system;
2. to prepare demonstration video tapes for the GLH/Hungary in August 1996;
3. to formulate plans, teams and fund-raising strategies for the following GLOSAS/CAADE projects:

   1. GLOSAS/ROSTER Project --

      To develop World Wide Web home pages of GLOSAS/CAADE projects that will later provide links to databases of course offerings. The GLOSAS/ROSTER multimedia database will include pertinent information on prominent colleagues among our more than 1,500 listserve members around the world and about their course offerings to less developed countries via inexpensive multimedia telecommunications networks across national boundaries.

   2. CAADE delivery technologies --

      To test/demonstrate the uses of ShareVision via INMARSAT, FORUM, KarlNet, BeingThere, CU-SeeMe and other telecommunications packages.

   3. CAADE/High School Teacher Training Program (HSTTP) in US urban/rural areas --

      To test/apply CAADE delivery technologies for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) teacher training provided to high schools in the U.S.

   4. "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)"(TM) videoconference for the Hungarian Fulbright Commission in August 1996 --

      To demonstrate CAADE delivery technologies for worldwide audiences in cooperation with colleagues in Brazil and the UNESCO/Paris office, among others.

   5. Helsini conference --

      To formulate plans, teams and fund-raising strategies for testing/applying CAADE delivery technologies in less developed countries with pilot projects, and to institutionalize the Global University system.

This meeting will also describe CAADE activities and demonstrate its proposed technologies. CAADE emphasizes the use of Internet.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

TENTATIVE AGENDA

1st Day, April 19:

• Greetings by Dr. Louis Padulo of the University City Science Center;
• Discussion of CAADE delivery technologies (Chaired by T. Utsumi and Mr. Jim Miller of SYNECTICS);
• Discussion of GLOSAS/ROSTER project (Chaired by T. Utsumi and Dr. Narvsky);
• August 1996 GLH for Hungarian Fulbright Commission (Chaired by T. Utsumi);

• Presentations of GLOSAS, GU, GLH and CAADE projects by T. Utsumi of GLOSAS/USA, with a video show of previous GLHs;
• Presentation of "Virtual St. Petersburg," "Jump Into The Depth of Hydrodynamics," the educational telecommunication project, "Virtual City," and the alpha version of the GLOSAS/ROSTER Project on CD-ROM and WWW by Dr. Andrey S. Narvsky of St. Petersburg University of Ocean Technology;
• Demonstration of BeingThere desktop videoconferencing via Internet, ISDN and POTS, by Mr. Cartwright Reed of Intelligence at Large, Inc.;
• Demonstration of Telemedicine -- a combined use of ShareVision for high resolution images, CardioPhone for cardiogram transmission and Telestethoscope for audio transmission of heart and lung sounds -- via POTS, by Mr. Yoshihisa Asano of Noguchi Medical Research Institute and Dr. Khalid Moidu of Norwalk Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine;
• Tour of the University City Science Center by Dr. Louis Padulo;
• Video tape show of past GLHs by T. Utsumi (after dinner).

2nd Day, April 20:

• Presentation on the Discovery Center at the College of Staten Island by Dr. Leonard Ciaccio;
• Demonstration of ShareVision via POTS by Mr. Jim Miller of SYNECTICS;
• FORUM slide show by Dr. Bill Klemm of Texas A&M University;
• Presentation of city planning and clean energy programs on CD-ROM (e.g., "Greening of the White House," "Renewable Energy Technology Exhibit" and "Sun's Joules") for promoting citizen awareness and participation in community planning and development;
• Presentation of Sarajevo reconstruction planning project.

• Fund raising strategy for the Helsinki conference, where international colleagues will concentrate on the institutionalizing of the Global University system, formulation of coursewares, transferring of credits, accreditation, etc. (Chaired by T. Utsumi and Dr. Tapio Varis of University of Helsinki);
• Issues of global electronic distance education (Chaired by T. Utsumi and Dr. Tapio Varis of University of Helsinki);
• Discussion of plans, team formulations, and grant applications for GLOSAS/ROSTER and CAADE delivery technologies (Chaired by T. Utsumi);
• Other issues and closing (Chaired by T. Utsumi).

BACKGROUND

utsumi@columbia.edu.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS (omitted)

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION

Registration Form (omitted)

For further information, contact:

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
Founder of CAADE (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education)
President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA),
A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA
(GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)
43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A.
Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 18-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email)

INTERNET: utsumi@columbia.edu

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March, 1996

GLOSAS NEWS was orinally posted to the WWW at URL: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/cont.htm by Tina Evans Greenwood, Library Instruction Coordinator, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado 81301, e-mail: greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu, and last updated May 7, 1999. By her permission the whole Website has been archived here at the University of Tennessee server directory of GLOSAS Chair Dr. Takeshi Utsumi from July 10, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.