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iLab
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(xLabs?) Founders Group
As the usage of online experiments gains traction in the educational community, there is increasing interest in developing such labs on a common infrastructure. A unified architecture is essential to convert the current tremendous interest for online experiments into an economy of labs that can be efficiently shared around the world. You and your institution have expressed interest in and support for the iLab Shared Architecture. At present, MIT continues to develop the iLab infrastructure largely alone, but your university and others are now creating the majority of new online labs.
The goal of this meeting is to convene a group of universities and corporate sponsors to explore the merit in establishing a consortium to further iLab development and dissemination.
We plan to discuss (1) the critical path to launching such an organization, (2) immediate next steps for the founders to take, (3) the complementary roles of academic and corporate members in the consortium, and (4) plans for joint fund-raising and development. We are limiting this first founders' meeting to universities and companies that we expect to play a leading role in launching the consortium.
If we jointly decide to launch an iLab Consortium, we would plan to hold a meeting for a much larger audience within six months. At this second meeting, we would expect to address the following issues:
- How to encourage and support the creation of new online labs and curricular materials for them;
- How to design an efficient mechanism for sharing, exchanging and trading access to online labs;
- How to support communities of scholars created around iLabs;
- How to lead the evolution and development of the iLab Architecture; and
- How to position the consortium with regard to other online laboratory projects.
Documents
- June 19, 2009 Meeting Agenda
- Proposal for an iLab Consortium
- David Lowe & Steve Murray UTS Observations
- Michael E. Auer (CIT) Comments
- Jud Harward Updated Consortium position paper
- UPDATED June 19, 2009 Meeting Agenda
Presentaion Slides
- MIT - Jud Harward
- OAU - Kunle Kehinde
- UTS - David Lowe
- Gratz - Christian Guetl
- Carinthia - Michael Auer
Moderated Discussion Sections
- Consortium Principles - Moderator Steve Lerman
- Governance - Moderator Steve Lerman
- Economics - Moderator Phil Long
- Education - Moderator Jesus del Alamo
- Next Steps - All
Workgroup Members and mailing lists
Governance Working Group
Mailing list: ilab-governance@mit.edu
- Steve Lerman - MIT
- Maria Karatzas - MIT
- Phil Bailey - MIT
- Vijay Kumar - MIT
- David Lowe - UTS
- Paul Oka - Microsoft
- Leon Shiman - Shiman Associates, Inc.
- Kunle Kehinde - TSU & OAU
- Phil Long - UQ
Technical Working Group
Mailing list: ilab-technical@mit.edu
- Jud Harward - MIT
- Phil Bailey - MIT
- Jim Hardison - MIT
- Tina Scheucher - Graz University of Technology & MIT
- Kirky DeLong - MIT
- Steve Murray - UTS
- Danilo Garbi-Zutin - Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
- Mark Schulz - UQ
- Christian Guetl - Graz University of Technology
- Lesley Yu - National Instruments
- Elio San Christobar Ruiz - UNED
Economics Working Group
Mailing list: ilab-economic
- Jud Harward - MIT
- Meg Westlund - MIT
- Janet Wasserstein - MIT
- Maria Karatzas - MIT
- Kirky DeLong - MIT
- Rob Reilly - MIT
- David Lowe - UTS
- Amgad Louka - RMIT
- Phil Long - UQ
Education Working Group
Mailing list: ilab-education@mit.edu
The xLabs Consortia (working title only!) is being established to promote the development of remote laboratories, including establishing a common architecture.
Meetings
- iLabs Founders Meeting 1: June 19th 2009, MIT, Cambridge, US
- Global Online Laboratory Consortium: January 27th, 28th 2010, UTS, Sydney, Australia
Workgroup Members and mailing lists
General Consortium Founders Mailing List: ilab-founders@mit.edu
- Governance Working Group
- Technical Working Group
- Economics Working Group
- Education Working Group
- Meg Westlund - MIT
- Tina Scheucher - Graz University of Technology & MIT
- Toru Iiyoshi - MIT
- Jesus del Alamo - MIT
- Jim Hardison - MIT
- Vijay Kumar - MIT
- Kunle Kehinde - TSU & OAU
- Steve Murray - UTS
- Sandy Tickodri-Togboa - Makerere University
- Michael Auer - Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
- Mark Schulz - UQ
- Christian Guetl - Graz University of Technology
- Elio San Christobal Ruiz - UNED