iLab Founders Group - Meeting 1
The initial iLab Consortium founders meeting was held at MIT on Friday June 19, 2009 to discuss the formation of an international consortium to foster the creation and worldwide sharing of online laboratories.
The goal of this meeting was to convene a group of universities and corporate sponsors to explore the merit in establishing a consortium to further iLab development and dissemination.
The plan was 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
- List of Participants
- 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
Pictures
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
General Consortium Founders Mailing List: ilab-founders@mit.edu