Our work in education and training combines both teaching courses and the development of Web technologies to support improved and lower-cost education.
Our experience comes from K-12 area where the Living SchoolBook project used ATM connections to three Central New York schools; undergraduate teaching in the Physics department of science for non-science majors; and graduate teaching of computer science including courses taught remotely in China.
We also learn from the design of interfaces for disabled children where assessment tools are a particular focus of our work. Our work on Web technologies for education includes both asynchronous (exploratory browsing) and synchronous delivery. The latter involves the use of the Tango collaboration system with its audio-video conferencing and shared curriculum features. We have established a virtual University WebWisdom.org, which offers two types of services:
- Distance delivery of courses related to entire spectrum of web technologies, high performance computing, general computing, basic and advanced network technology, and multimedia. This is illustrated by our course at Jackson State offered synchronously over the Internet using Tango Collaboration and WebWisdom delivery module.
- Hosting of 3rd party distance learning services on our servers, including help in courseware conversion
A start-up company WebWisdom.com will through InfoMall commercialize many NPAC technologies in this arena.