Distance and Internet-Mediated Learning at the University of California at Berkeley

Distance and Internet-Mediated Learning at the University of California at Berkeley

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CyberCentral:

Center for Faculty Development and Educational Technology

The CyberCentral web site is designed to assist faculty find resources for teaching, learning and educational technology. It is organized around key areas of: pedagogy, course web sites, multimedia, classroom technology, intellectual property, recognition awards, grants, training, seminars, and evaluation. It also links to organizational units on the Berkeley campus that provide central campus and departmental services in these areas. The CyberCentral web site is the first step in realizing a Berkeley Center for Educational Development and Technology that will mobilize new advances in the learning sciences and educational technology. The mission of the Center is to improve teaching effectiveness and student learning and to promote innovations in the creative and effective use of both new and traditional educational methods, tools, and technologies. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

http://cybercentral.berkeley.edu/
Developing Course Websites
Campus Course Website Framework
Sample Course Websites

Office of Media Services

Videoconfercening Facility

Video Slide and Graphics Production

Office of Media Services
http://media.berkeley.edu/tele.html

OMS has a distance learning/video conferencing facility for point-to-point communication using compressed video with ISDN and T1 lines. Multipoint links are possible within the UC and California State University Systems. If three of more locations are to be linked which are outside the UC system, a commercial bridging service needs to be arranged. OMS has broadcast-standard video equipment, a 3-camera studio and advanced editing facilities. The studio is set up to go on the air quickly and is interconnected to all national and international TV/Cable outlets. OMS also has satellite downlink capabilities and can arrange uplinks.

UC Berkeley Extension

Center for Media and Independent Learning

UC Berkeley Extension had 65,000 enrollments, at 13 locations around the SF Bay Area in 1999/2000. UC Extension Online launched its first program site for online courses in January 1996 with 9 courses and support from the Sloan Foundation. To date, the program has designed and developed more than 120 online courses. More than 4,500 students have enrolled since the start of the program, and enrollments for FY2000/2001 are projected to be 4,000. UC Berkeley Extension has collaborations with Hungry Minds, Colorado State and Smart Planet. For more information contact: Garry D. Brewer, Dean, UC Extension and Professor of Energy and Resources.

http://www.unex.berkeley.edu:4243/

UC Extension On-Line

Course Catalog of On-Line UC Extension Courses
Java Programming for Professionals

CalVIEW - Satellite and Video-based Courses

The Televised Instruction Program of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley - known as Cal VIEW - Video Instruction for the Engineering World - supports Berkeley's activity as a member school in the National Technological University, NTU, which is a consortium of 52 universities and colleges.

Cal participates as a member school of NTU by videotaping select engineering courses each semester and sending copies of those videotapes to Ft. Collins, Colorado for NTU to offer over a satellite broadcast system. During the Spring Semester 2000, seven UC Berkeley courses are being broadcast to NTU member sites over NTU's digital satellite broadcast system.

Industrial firms join NTU as member companies. Their engineers enroll in one of the M.S. degree programs offered through NTU, and NTU credit (not UCB credit) is given for the Berkeley courses that are offered. Engineers can also enroll as auditors in any NTU course. For more information contact: Pam Atkinson, Director, CalVIEW.

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/calview/
Spring 2000 Course Offerings
Graduate Computer Architecture
Lecture 13 - Trends, Metrics, Interfaces (pdf)

Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center is an interdisciplinary group that studies applications of multimedia technology. BMRC brings together artists educators and scientists to develop and experiment with new technologies and applications and to study the social and policy issues they raise.

BIBS (Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System) is run by the BMRC to webcast UCB class lectures for remote viewing and on-demand replay for review. BIBS webcast 10 classes with approximate enrollment of 3,000 students in Fall 1999 using Real Networks technology. For more information contact: Larry Rowe, Director Berkeley Multimedia Research Center and Professor of Computer Science.

http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/
Conversations with History
American Environmental and Cultural History On-Line Class

Digital Libraries

The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to others doing the same.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/.

http://www.needs.org/
NEEDS -- the National Engineering Education Delivery System -- is an on-line digital library of engineering courseware (software aimed at improving a student's educational experience) and other educational material. Originally containing courseware developed by the Synthesis Coalition, the NEEDS Database is expanding to include quality courseware nationwide. For more information contact: Brandon Muramatsu, NEEDS Project Director, or PI, Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

SMETE Information Portal http://www.smete.org/
Digital Learning Community to support technology-enhanced teaching and learning, collaboration and communication for K-12, higher education and life-long learning in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

UC Educational Clearinghouse http://www.smete.org/uc
Proposed UC Courseware Clearinghouse. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

Multimedia Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio
The Multimedia Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio is an example of courseware available on our educational digital libraries. It introduces undergraduate engineering and science students to the world of mechatronics and "real-life" engineering practices. This interactive game allows students to become design engineers in a fictitious disk drive design firm. Most students will not have any in-depth knowledge of disk drives and will have to search out the necessary information from a multimedia archive. Subsequently, they will have to select from various design options and construct their own disk drives. The courseware is used in a number of courses across the county. At UC Berkeley it has been used in engineering design and materials courses, including Multimedia Case Studies of Engineering Design. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

http://www1.needs.org/develop/disk/disk.html
http://garcia.me.berkeley.edu/~lchew/vdds/

Other Case Studies of Engineering Design developed by Synthesis: http://www1.needs.org/develop/

K-12 Outreach

Graduate Seminar in Visualization and Modeling in K-12 Education with Prof. Marcia C. Linn from the Graduate School of Education. Distance Learning course with students from George Mason University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Georgia and University of Michigan. Collectively, students and faculty at the four sites read a common corpus of pioneering articles in the area of visualization and modeling, interact with the primary authors of these works, and have sustained interactions between scholars (core faculty and other guest faculty) and graduate students. They collaborate in small, cross-institutional groups to synthesize research findings, design principles, and technology issues across multiple examples of visualization and modeling use.

http://cilt.berkeley.edu/seminar/2000/

Interactive University

http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7017/
Interactive MESA (Math*Engineering*Science*Achievement)
Bay Area Writing and Technology Literacy Project
California Heritage Project
Connecting Students to the World
History through Literature
Integrating Science, Teaching and Technology
Reading through Science and Technology
Oakland Community Networking Project City Bugs Project

Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP)

http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/
Introduction to Engineering
Simple Machines
Engineering Curriculum for High School Students

Lawrence Hall of Science

http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/

Other Educational Technology Resources at Berkeley

NotePals is a lightweight meeting support system that automatically combines individuals' meeting notes into a shared meeting record. Shared records of some kind are essential for maintaining a workgroup's knowledge. Often, meeting scribes maintain such records, but this puts a heavy load on the scribe and makes all notes subject to his interpretation. Computerized meeting rooms capture information during meetings, but these rooms are expensive and not available in most meeting environments. In the NotePals system, group members record their own notes on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the notes are combined automatically into a shared document. This system spreads note taking responsibility across the group, and group members need only PDAs during their meetings. For more information contact: James Landay, Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

http://guir.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/notepals/
NotePals Note Browser

ModularCHEM Consortium

MC^2 is a National Science Foundation consortium charged with developing new curricular, materials and methods which will enhance the appreciate and learning of science, especially chemistry, for every undergraduate student such that all graduates will command the knowledge and skills necessary to permit continued learning, to lead productive lives, and to make informed decision. For more information contact: Marjorie Faltens in the Department of Chemistry.

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/
http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/MultiCHEM/

If you have any questions about the items on this page, please contact Alice Agogino via email at aagogino@socrates.berkeley.edu or call (510) 642-7609.
Last Updated 3/22/00
Copyright © 2000 UC Berkeley
All Rights Reserved

		Distance and Internet-Mediated Learning at the University of California at Berkeley UC Berkeley Home Page Live Webcam Views of Campus Schedule of Classes
CyberCentral: Center for Faculty Development and Educational Technology		The CyberCentral web site is designed to assist faculty find resources for teaching, learning and educational technology. It is organized around key areas of: pedagogy, course web sites, multimedia, classroom technology, intellectual property, recognition awards, grants, training, seminars, and evaluation. It also links to organizational units on the Berkeley campus that provide central campus and departmental services in these areas. The CyberCentral web site is the first step in realizing a Berkeley Center for Educational Development and Technology that will mobilize new advances in the learning sciences and educational technology. The mission of the Center is to improve teaching effectiveness and student learning and to promote innovations in the creative and effective use of both new and traditional educational methods, tools, and technologies. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering. http://cybercentral.berkeley.edu/ Developing Course Websites Campus Course Website Framework Sample Course Websites
Office of Media Services Videoconfercening Facility Video Slide and Graphics Production		Office of Media Services http://media.berkeley.edu/tele.html OMS has a distance learning/video conferencing facility for point-to-point communication using compressed video with ISDN and T1 lines. Multipoint links are possible within the UC and California State University Systems. If three of more locations are to be linked which are outside the UC system, a commercial bridging service needs to be arranged. OMS has broadcast-standard video equipment, a 3-camera studio and advanced editing facilities. The studio is set up to go on the air quickly and is interconnected to all national and international TV/Cable outlets. OMS also has satellite downlink capabilities and can arrange uplinks.
UC Berkeley Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning		UC Berkeley Extension had 65,000 enrollments, at 13 locations around the SF Bay Area in 1999/2000. UC Extension Online launched its first program site for online courses in January 1996 with 9 courses and support from the Sloan Foundation. To date, the program has designed and developed more than 120 online courses. More than 4,500 students have enrolled since the start of the program, and enrollments for FY2000/2001 are projected to be 4,000. UC Berkeley Extension has collaborations with Hungry Minds, Colorado State and Smart Planet. For more information contact: Garry D. Brewer, Dean, UC Extension and Professor of Energy and Resources. http://www.unex.berkeley.edu:4243/ UC Extension On-Line Course Catalog of On-Line UC Extension Courses Java Programming for Professionals
CalVIEW - Satellite and Video-based Courses		The Televised Instruction Program of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley - known as Cal VIEW - Video Instruction for the Engineering World - supports Berkeley's activity as a member school in the National Technological University, NTU, which is a consortium of 52 universities and colleges. Cal participates as a member school of NTU by videotaping select engineering courses each semester and sending copies of those videotapes to Ft. Collins, Colorado for NTU to offer over a satellite broadcast system. During the Spring Semester 2000, seven UC Berkeley courses are being broadcast to NTU member sites over NTU's digital satellite broadcast system. Industrial firms join NTU as member companies. Their engineers enroll in one of the M.S. degree programs offered through NTU, and NTU credit (not UCB credit) is given for the Berkeley courses that are offered. Engineers can also enroll as auditors in any NTU course. For more information contact: Pam Atkinson, Director, CalVIEW. http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/calview/ Spring 2000 Course Offerings Graduate Computer Architecture Lecture 13 - Trends, Metrics, Interfaces (pdf)
Berkeley Multimedia Research Center		The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center is an interdisciplinary group that studies applications of multimedia technology. BMRC brings together artists educators and scientists to develop and experiment with new technologies and applications and to study the social and policy issues they raise. BIBS (Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System) is run by the BMRC to webcast UCB class lectures for remote viewing and on-demand replay for review. BIBS webcast 10 classes with approximate enrollment of 3,000 students in Fall 1999 using Real Networks technology. For more information contact: Larry Rowe, Director Berkeley Multimedia Research Center and Professor of Computer Science. http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/ Conversations with History American Environmental and Cultural History On-Line Class
Digital Libraries		The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to others doing the same. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/.
		http://www.needs.org/ NEEDS -- the National Engineering Education Delivery System -- is an on-line digital library of engineering courseware (software aimed at improving a student's educational experience) and other educational material. Originally containing courseware developed by the Synthesis Coalition, the NEEDS Database is expanding to include quality courseware nationwide. For more information contact: Brandon Muramatsu, NEEDS Project Director, or PI, Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering. http://www.smete.org/ Digital Learning Community to support technology-enhanced teaching and learning, collaboration and communication for K-12, higher education and life-long learning in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering. http://www.smete.org/uc Proposed UC Courseware Clearinghouse. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering.
		Multimedia Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio The Multimedia Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio is an example of courseware available on our educational digital libraries. It introduces undergraduate engineering and science students to the world of mechatronics and "real-life" engineering practices. This interactive game allows students to become design engineers in a fictitious disk drive design firm. Most students will not have any in-depth knowledge of disk drives and will have to search out the necessary information from a multimedia archive. Subsequently, they will have to select from various design options and construct their own disk drives. The courseware is used in a number of courses across the county. At UC Berkeley it has been used in engineering design and materials courses, including Multimedia Case Studies of Engineering Design. For more information contact: Alice M. Agogino, Faculty Assistant to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering. http://www1.needs.org/develop/disk/disk.html http://garcia.me.berkeley.edu/~lchew/vdds/ Other Case Studies of Engineering Design developed by Synthesis: http://www1.needs.org/develop/
K-12 Outreach		Graduate Seminar in Visualization and Modeling in K-12 Education with Prof. Marcia C. Linn from the Graduate School of Education. Distance Learning course with students from George Mason University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Georgia and University of Michigan. Collectively, students and faculty at the four sites read a common corpus of pioneering articles in the area of visualization and modeling, interact with the primary authors of these works, and have sustained interactions between scholars (core faculty and other guest faculty) and graduate students. They collaborate in small, cross-institutional groups to synthesize research findings, design principles, and technology issues across multiple examples of visualization and modeling use. http://cilt.berkeley.edu/seminar/2000/ Interactive University http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7017/ Interactive MESA (MathEngineeringScienceAchievement) Bay Area Writing and Technology Literacy Project California Heritage Project Connecting Students to the World History through Literature Integrating Science, Teaching and Technology Reading through Science and Technology Oakland Community Networking Project City Bugs Project Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP)* http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/ Introduction to Engineering Simple Machines Engineering Curriculum for High School Students Lawrence Hall of Science http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/
Other Educational Technology Resources at Berkeley		NotePals is a lightweight meeting support system that automatically combines individuals' meeting notes into a shared meeting record. Shared records of some kind are essential for maintaining a workgroup's knowledge. Often, meeting scribes maintain such records, but this puts a heavy load on the scribe and makes all notes subject to his interpretation. Computerized meeting rooms capture information during meetings, but these rooms are expensive and not available in most meeting environments. In the NotePals system, group members record their own notes on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the notes are combined automatically into a shared document. This system spreads note taking responsibility across the group, and group members need only PDAs during their meetings. For more information contact: James Landay, Assistant Professor of Computer Science. http://guir.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/notepals/ NotePals Note Browser ModularCHEM Consortium MC^2 is a National Science Foundation consortium charged with developing new curricular, materials and methods which will enhance the appreciate and learning of science, especially chemistry, for every undergraduate student such that all graduates will command the knowledge and skills necessary to permit continued learning, to lead productive lives, and to make informed decision. For more information contact: Marjorie Faltens in the Department of Chemistry. http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/ http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/MultiCHEM/
		If you have any questions about the items on this page, please contact Alice Agogino via email at aagogino@socrates.berkeley.edu or call (510) 642-7609. Last Updated 3/22/00 Copyright © 2000 UC Berkeley All Rights Reserved