<<March 9, 2000>>
Howard Schechter, Ed.D. <hschechter@intralearn.com>
Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
W. R. (Bill) Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D. <wklemm@cvm.tamu.edu>
Mr. Jim Miller <jimmsl@aol.com>
Dear Howard:
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(1) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and II).
(2) During our mtg at the University City Science Center in
Philadelphia
several years ago, Roger, Bill and Jim once discussed the
construction
of a Comprehensive Electronic Distance Education Tool.
Bill Klemm's FORUM multimedia computer mediated conferencing
system was
to be integrated with Jim Miller's Teacher's Instructional
Mapping &
Management System (TIMMS), which is a useful tool for courseware
design
and planning, school administration, student performance
assessment
records and portfolio. The proposed integration would enable
FORUM to
serve as an interface between these two systems. For example,
the
design and planning of curriculum that is needed in TIMMS
can be
performed in FORUM by software guided brainstorming, debate
of issues,
and decision-making processes. The TIMMS need to assess
curricular
resources can be conducted within FORUM, with the issues
raised
subjected to the same software-guided brainstorming, debate,
and
decision-making processes. Some of the student tasks specified
in TIMMS
can be implemented as instructional material that is presented
interactively in FORUM. The student work in FORUM can be
individual or
collaborative. The student performance requirements in TIMMS
can be
assessed in FORUM, as can the assessment records that are
generated in
TIMMS. Where student performance is expected to include
student
portfolios, students can create multi-media portfolios within
FORUM.
This will further be combined with a real-time videoconferencing
system
which is synchronous compared with asynchronous one by FORUM.
The real-time videoconferencing system is to be a personal
collaboration and
conferencing software system which provides high quality
audio, full
color video and document sharing with collaboration tools
for a complete
solution, that allows managers to hold meetings, doctors
to share
patient information, and professors to teach classes without
ever having
to leave their offices. Any software application or document
can be
shared for presentations, meetings and other collaborative
work. This
videoconferencing system can do many-to-many, full audio,
document, and
video features on different platforms (Mac and PC) which
can be
interfaced through various protocol environments (regular
telephone
lines, digital switched services [e.g., PictureTel, etc.],
ISDN, and
TCP/IP oriented Internet, LAN, WAN, ATM, etc.) for video
sources of VHS,
NTSC, PAL, SECAM -- with software approach at a very reasonable
price.
During the videoconferencing, WWW can be retrieved for joint
annotation.
Edited video clippings can be stored into WWW home page and
retrieved
later by students who could not join in the real-time videoconferencing.
This combined form will also be added with GLOSAS COURSE
ROSTER which is
a multimedia database of GLOSAS members about their course
offerings to
less developed countries via inexpensive multimedia telecommunications
networks across national boundaries. Three dimensional display
of
rotating global brain with blinking locations of the members
in various
countries leads to their WWW home page design. The page
will be
hypertexted with audio and video greetings, and much information,
reports, papers about GLOSAS, GU, GLH video clippings, CAADE
projects
and GLOSAS NEWS. It will have a search mechanism by keywords
for the
members' photo, audio/video greetings, address, descriptive
bio, full
resume, specialties, professional papers, video of demonstrations
and
projects. This will be the basis of course offerings of
Global
(electronic) University across national boundaries.
Thus, we envision a tightly integrated computer environment
for
curriculum development, resource and records management,
instructional
delivery, extensive feedback from students to teachers, peer-peer
interaction, and objective "deliverables" of student
work for outcomes-based assessment.
The integrated total will be the most Comprehensive Electronic Distance Education Tool.
(3) Your system in ATTACHMENT II seems very similar to our "dream" system.
I would be very happy to learn more about it -- can you
inform me of
your web with some demo?
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:45:27 -0400
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
From: hschechter@intralearn.com (Howard Schechter)
Subject: Distance Learning
Takeshi,
Ed Elkin from Hawaii suggested I get in touch with you concerning
our
distance learning platform. We are currently in over 250 institutions
and
are an enterprize wide system for creating a total virtual university
or
for implementation at other levels in "brick and mortar"
university. We
are Microsoft NT based and very easy for a faculty to use to create
courses
using graphics, video, and other multimedia.
I'm probably one of the few people in the U.S. who actually
know who Lord
Perry was and what he did as my doctoral research was conducted
partially
at the Open U. in 1982 (Ed.D., 1983, UMASS Amherst, Future Studies
Program).
If you would like we can meet over the phone and I could show
you a course
I've put up on our system and how it was created.
Howard Schechter, Ed.D.
Director of Education Programs
IntraLearn Software Corp.
Northboro, MA 01545
508-393-2277
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:14:20 -0500
From: hschechter@intralearn.com (Howard Schechter)
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: RE: Great and exciting show on low cost distance learning
by Roger et al.
To Tak and Friends,
I have been following the work and finally feel I have something
relevant to
add. I am Director of Education at IntraLearn Software Corp.
in Northboro,
Massachusetts, USA. My doctoral work was conducted in distance
learning in
Alaska, England, and France back in 1982 and I have been active
in the field
since. Currently, IntraLearn is a software platform for the delivery
of
distance learning over the web. It supports the use of RealPlayer
and other
compressed streaming formats as well. But RealPlayer is not a
distance
learning solution! It does not allow for lecture notes, interactivity,
student registration, online assessment, program administration,
etc.
IntraLearn does all the above and more AND the cost of implementation
for
multiple virtual universities is about $5,000 US for the first
10 and $2,500
thereafter. Each virtual university has its own course set, security,
can
be in its own language, etc. We are currently in Colombia, Argentina,
Brazil, Italy, Greece, Germany, and others as well as in the U.S.
and
Canada. Perhaps we have something to contribute to the great work
in which
you are all engaged.
Howard B. Schechter, Ed.D.
Director of Education
21 Southwest Cutoff
Northboro, MA, USA
508-393-2277
hschechter@intralearn.com
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Howard Schechter, Ed.D.
Director of Education Programs
IntraLearn Software Corp.
Northboro, MA 01545
508-393-2277
hschechter@intralearn.com
Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair/Instructor
Distance Education/Technology Center
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, Texas 77006
USA
Tel: +1-713-718 5224
Fax: +1-713-718 5301
rboston@tenet.edu
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http://www.rboston.com
http://www.teched.org/
http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us
http://www.teched.org/Finland
http://www.teched.org/ChinaLive
http://www.teched.org/starlink
W. R. (Bill) Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Dept. VAPH, Mail Stop 4458
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4458
409-845-4201
or
President
Forum Enterprises, Inc.
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P.O. Box 5755
Bryan, TX 77805-5755
409-589-2665 (home)
FAX: 409-847-8981
wklemm@cvm.tamu.edu
wklemm@vetmed.tamu.edu
wrk2101@tam2000.tamu.edu
72133.2476@compuserve.com
http://www.ForumInc.com
http://www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm -- resume and slide show of 8/19/98.
Demos & literature available at our WWW site:
http://cvm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/whoami.html
http://cvm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/resume.html -- photo of Dr. Klemm
http://cwis.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/vol2no1/klemm/caadehom.htm
www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm/contents.htm -- white-paper
http://www.foruminc.com/forum98.show/ss_ind.html -- slide show
Mr. Jim Miller
President
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
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