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DISTANCE LEARNING INITIATIVES AND TECHNOLOGIESJesuitNet JesuitNet represents a virtual consortium of 28 Jesuit institutions in the United States that belong to the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). In Spring of 2001, JesuitNet partnered with CNDLS to develop an online workshop to assist faculty from across the JesuitNet network in developing online courses. The completely online workshop provides best practice techniques and guidelines for designing an educationally sound online course. Video Conferencing UIS now provides compressed video conferencing services at designated locations at extremely competitive rates. Whether communicating locally or around the world, video conferencing enables high quality, professional meetings without the expense or inconvenience of travel. These services use the university’s on-campus high-speed data network and take advantage of the university’s robust interconnection with the Internet and the Internet2 research network. Desktop video conferencing has also become less expensive with better quality. This allows a single user to connect to another single user or video conference unit for impromptu or scheduled meetings using a personal computer with a high speed internet or GUNETWORK connection. Computational Research The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) division of UIS is charged to meet the rapidly increasing demand for support in this area and to help promote new computational methodologies and tools. ARC's mission is to enhance scientific computing support for Main Campus and Medical Center faculty and to promote our connectivity to national research labs via Internet2 and GRID technology. Clusters and GRIDS Advanced Research Computing maintains four high performance (parallel processing) clusters for a total computational resource of 85 hosts and 131 CPU's. Online statistics for ARC clusters and their GRID status can be viewed at http://www.clusters.arc.georgetown.edu/statistics. GRIDS refers to an emerging infrastructure that enables the integrated use of remote, high-end computers, servers, clients, and databases, scientific instrumentation, networks and other resources to distribute workloads, tackle highly complex problems, and potentially provide a pool of computing resources on an as-needed basis. Internet2 (I2) Internet2, a high-bandwidth network, allows users at geographically distributed sites to collaborate in real time in a shared, simulated environment as if they were in the same physical room. This technology allows faculty to explore new applications and tools, such as complex simulations, remote instrument manipulation, and 3-D visualizations, within their courses. The entire University network backbone is now connected to the I2 Abilene network.
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