Are there bugs in the scope Jonathon Cummings MIT Sloan School of Management

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Are there bugs in the scope?Jonathon
CummingsMIT Sloan School of Management
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Attractive Characteristics

• Easy to see the value of connecting K-12
  classrooms to an expensive instrument
• Capitalizes on the use of the Internet to share
  scientific knowledge
• Beckman Institute (U. Illinois) is a center of
  excellence for initiating the collaboratory

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Issues of Scope

• Which stakeholders have the most to gain (or
  lose) from the Bugscope collaboratory?
• K-12 students
• K-12 teachers
• General public
• Beckman Institute
• Scientific researchers
• Scientific fields
• Software developers

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Issues of Scope

• Which features of the collaboratory are scalable
  beyond Bugscope?
• Instruments
• Instrument operators
• Internet software
• K-12 classrooms
• Curriculum support
• Student helpers
• Saved sessions

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Issues of Scope

• Which -centered models would benefit other
  collaboratories like Bugscope?
• Instrument-centered
• Institute-centered
• Student-centered
• Teacher-centered
• Classroom-centered
• Website-centered
• NSF-centered