ADEC May 3, 2006

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New Directions in Land Grant Distance Education
Programsat Kentucky State University
Dr. E. Terry Magel, Director, Continuing and
Distance Education
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Small Campus Extended Reach
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Overview

• Internet Classes
• Interactive Television Facilities
• Satellite Uplink Vehicle
• Mobile Classroom
• Environmental Education Vehicle
• Geographic Information Systems Center

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Unusual Classroom Internet Cafe

• When Dr. Boris Gomelsky
• taught Fish Genetics online
• in Fall 2003, one Nigerian
• student completed the online course from the
  Internet Café in Lagos, Nigeria. He did not have
  a computer at work nor at home but found the café
  to be just the ticket as long as he kept buying
  the java.

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Internet ClassesGrowth Chart
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Interactive Television
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ITV Thesis Defense

• A MS student in Aquaculture defended his thesis
  from the University of the Virgin Islands where
  he recently got a teaching job. Faculty and
  students at KSU asked him questions about his
  research project and its results as he
  successfully defended his thesis saving time,
  money
• and energy.

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Russian Visitors
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ITV/Internet

• A lecture to Russian Visitors to the
  Aquaculture Facilities in 2004 was captured on
  ITV and then uploaded to the KSU aquaculture
  website.
• These foreign guests were amazed to
  synchronously see themselves on the site during
  the lecture. Colleagues in Russia were also able
  to view them.

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New Mobile Classroom
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Mobile Classroom Interior
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Satellite Uplink Vehicle
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Remote Audio/Video Access
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Satellite Uplink Functions

• On site field demonstration video production
• Real time broadcasts from
• Environmental Education Center to campus ITV
  sites
• Aquaculture production sites to campus via
  satellite
• Remote audio conferencing via telephone
• State Homeland Security Broadcasting
• Uplink news/sports info with CBS,ABC,ESPN

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Environmental Education Center
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Environmental Education Center

• 300 Acres Kentucky Wild Lands
• Pleasureville, Kentucky
• 1.6 acre pond
• Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund
• Full Time Land Grant Natural Resources Educator
• Extensive walking trails
• Sites for anthropology, aquatic sciences,
• forestry, biology, and science education.

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Environmental Education Mobile Classroom
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Faces of Excitement in the Exploration of Science
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Mobile Lab Visit Student Responses First Grade

• Thank you for showing us Snappy the turtle.
  Snappy eats fish. He allsow has no teeth. He has
  a bek instead of
• teeth. He walks sloe.
• Thank you for bringng the fish. We really liked
  petting it. We learned a lot abut fish skools.
• Thanks. Love, Caitlin.

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Mobile Lab School VisitsSpecial Student in West
Liberty, KY

• When Wes Stilwell, Environmental Education
  Teacher, visited West Liberty Elementary, one of
  his students was a visually impaired young girl.
  Under his guidance, she was able to touch her
  first toad, pet a young rabbit and hold her first
  earthworm. For her, on that day, all the wonders
  of nature opened up to her for the first time.

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15 stations 3.2 gigahertz 1gb memory Dual 19
screens
Dual Server KY GIS Data Center
GIS Research Training Center
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Geographic Information Systems Research and
Training Center
USDA Funded 2006-2008 Full ESRI software
site Undergraduate and Graduate GIS
Courses Aquaculture Department curriculum Authoriz
ed ESRI Instructor ESRI Authorized
Training Online GIS courses in preparation
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GIS inFacility ManagementProvided mapping and
data services for grant application to build
emergency shelters on campus and university
agriculture research farm
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GIS in Research SupportCorrelating insect
collection with Nature Preserve Management Units
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GIS inResearch SupportGIS used to design
paddocks of equal area for goat nutrition
researchRequirementPaddocks had to be of
equal area
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Kentucky State UniversityLearning Beyond
Boundaries