E-UNIVERSITY on the INTERNET: Synergistic Interaction of TAlia and MELPomene

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E-UNIVERSITY on the INTERNETSynergistic
Interaction of TAlia and MELPomene
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Issues in E-University on the InternetModern
Knowledge Riding on
the Shoulders of High-Tech!

• Case Study Cyber University of an Interest
  Group
• (a real one not virtual)
• Veljko Milutinovic
• vm_at_etf.bg.ac.yu
• http//galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/vm/

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Architecture of an E-University Who is Who in
the a-World?

• Students All Internet users (400M on
  1.1.2001.), just one click away
• Teachers Experts in subject matters,
  qualified and motivated
• Administrators Experts in business
  administration, running the show
• Providers Experts in business management,
  creating the show
• Founders Experts in financial engineering,
  backed by investors

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Architecture of an E-University Who is Who in
the t-World?

• The Application Domain Mission/Infrastructure
  Software plus Enabling/Accelerating
  Hardware
• The Technology Domain Intranet, Extranet, and
  the Internet

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Definition of the ViewpointPioneering by Fortune

• The NTU/Purdue Experience from USA and Japan
  The Story of 80s (10-- to 100)
• The Socratenon/Aristotelon Experience from USA
  and Europe The Story of 90s (7 to 17)
• The Dartmouth/TechDeMonterey Experience
  from USA and Latin America The Story
  of 2000s (Ivy/10 Mexico/32 etc)

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The Three Approaches GeneralizedMultiOptima

• Level 1 Formal Interaction Using an existing
  infrastructure and filling in the courseware
  (e.g., UniversalClassroom)
• Level 2 Symbiotic Interaction!! Customizing
  an existing infrastructure and filling in the
  courseware (e.g., Socratenon)
• Level 3 Synergistic Interaction!!! Creating
  the cybertop infrastructure and filling in
  the courseware (e.g., Real-Video)

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N.B.

• Branovic, I., Milutinovic, V. Advances in
  Internet-Based Education SSGRR-2001,
  LAquilla, Italy, August 6-12, 2001
  (http//www.ssgrr.it)

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Universal Classroom Web Site

• Building a Web-Based Virtual Classroom
  Moving from Promise to Practice
• The global platform (Web site) for hosting
  online classes absolutely for free It can be
  accessed at http//class.universalclass.com

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SocratenonAn Educational Web System

• Authors D. Milicev, M. Milicevic, N. Nikolic, M.
  Trajkovic, V. Milutinovic
• Education over the Internet
• Courses in industry and RD
• Adapting the curriculum to students skills and
  preferences
• Virtual classroom features
• Logging students activities and preferences

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The Real-Video Infrastructure

• Distance education power of WWW with
  interactivity and intelligence
• Multimedia technology added the possibility
  to present sound, video, and animation
• Internet and World Wide Web bring the
  possibility of distance access

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The Major Milestones

• Venture and Founding MBA, CSE
• Focus and Structure Depth vs Breadth,
  Independent vs Affiliated
• Program and Accreditation Admit vs Adapt, ABET
  vs EURO

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The e-MBA of Dartmouth Rationales,
Implications, and Profits

• What is MBA?
• Master in Management and Business Administration
• Creating the Directors of Large Corporations

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What are the Admission Criteria?Formally

• TOEFL and GMAT, plus (much more important)
  essays and interviews.
• ConditionExperience (gt90) vs talent (lt10)

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What are the Admission Criteria?Essence

• PROFITBalance between the FEE and the AFS
• Consequently, The "know-how-to-sell-their-faces
  are needed!

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The U.S.News On-Line 2000 Graduate MBA Rankings

• 1. Dartmouth (e-MBK) 735 5.1 120K
  99.1 528
• 2. Stanford 722 6.7 106K 98.9
  726
• 3. Harward 689 12.9 105K 98.5
  1767
• 4. Kellogg (NWE) 685 15.5 115K
  100.0 2504
• 5. Wharton (UP) 685 13.1 100K 100.0
  1557
• 6. Sloan (MIT) 690 13.4 95K 97.1
  708
• 7. Chicago 695 22.7 106K 98.2
  2808
• 8. Columbia 680 11.5 97K 99.1
  1373
• 14. Haas (Berkeley) 674 11.0 90K
  87.4 809
• 15. Yale 682 25.8
  95K 97.8 430
• 20. Krannert (Purdue) 624 25.4 85K
  99.2 252 1/1
• For more details www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond
  /gradrank/mba/

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A Case Study Creating an E-University
out of the Serbian Brain

• Founders Investors
• Providers A Distributed Chain of Institutions
• Administrators Business as Usual
• Teachers The Least of a Problem MIT (Asanovic,
  Ilic)
• Berkeley (Vujic, Nikolic)
• USC (Mataric, Medvidovic)
• UCLA (Ercegovac, Potkonjak)
• Purdue (Tomovic, Jakovljevic)
• Students 400M

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The Major Points to Remember

• Catching the Roman Gladiator Spirit
• Catching the Greek God of Luck
• Catching the Jewish Art of Extrapolation

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The Most Popular Programs to Probe

• What to Challenge?
• Religion
• Philosophy
• Logic
• Math
• Science
• Engineering
• Common

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Some Candidate Programs

• Serbian Studies
• MBA
• CSE

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Where to Invest?

• 1 Infrastructure (c-business, e-business,
  i-business)

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Where to Invest?

• 2 Legislature (enter, multiply, exit)

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Where to Invest?

• 3 Education (get absorbed, get acquainted,
  get independent)

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To Probe Further?

• The books on e-business (http//galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu
  /vm/)
• IEEE/CS-Press (1999)
• Wiley-International (2000)
  Kluwer-Academics (2001)
• The SSGRR (http//www.ssgrr.it) Kenneth Wilson
  (North-Holland, 1987) Leon Cooper
  (Prentice-Hall, 1994) Bob Richardson
  (Kluwer-Academics, 2001)

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Conclusion

• Veni, vidi, vici !!!http//galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/vm
  vm_at_etf.bg.ac.yu