Connect, Collaborate and Create:

International Universities Working Together

Alain CivelMENA Polycom Regional Manager

Transforming Video Conferencing

Real-time,streamed, archived

Any Time

Individuals, teams,

thousands

Any Audience

Office, remote,mobile

PC, phone, personal /

group video system

Any Place Any Device

Roads to Video Conferencing

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Social / Cultural Shifts Lifestyle Choices Instant

Communications

Virtual and Remote Workers/Students

Environmental Agenda Traditional vs. Virtual Schools

The Changing Education Landscape

Organizational Challenges

Global Economy Regulatory Requirements Competition Retaining Top

Talent/Recruiting

Technology Enablers IP Network Convergence Unified Communications

Platforms Ease of Connecting in

Real Time Presence and Mobility

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Global Competition

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21st Century Education

“We need to teach our students how to be prepared for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”

Howie DiBlasi, Technology Evangelist

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Traditional curricular areas of learning PLUS Applied Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Work/Collaboration

The Knowledge Worker

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Achieving Academic Vision:Areas of Integration

Courses

Connective Teaching

Curriculum Enhancement

Collaboration

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Additional Education Applications

Admin Meetings (School Board, Regents) Interviewing and Staff Recruiting Professional Development Continuing Education Intercampus Connectivity Interactive Distance Learning Faculty & Student Collaboration Virtual Field Trip Connections Access to Content Experts and

Guest Lecturers Project Coordination Enhanced Research Projects Global Studies Resource Sharing Campus Extensions Digital Content – Stored Libraries and Lectures

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ChallengeTo provide a large population of future teachers a way to gain access to veteran teachers in the field and interact with primary & secondary students when the local school districts are already overwhelmed trying to accommodate the university’s pre-service teachers

SolutionPartner with school districts located more than a day’s drive from the university, and allow future teachers, veteran teachers, and primary & secondary pupils to interact via videoconference, thus increasing the available pool of teachers and students available for collaboration

ResultThe initial research and pilot project results have been documented in several journals and been nationally recognized for their innovation.

Case Study

RESULT: Cyber-Tutoring and Cyber-Mentoring have become an integral part of WSU’s program

“Videoconferencing allows us to bring …..”

Donald DoverVideoconference Operations Manager

Washington State University

Washington State University

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Manhattan School of MusicManhattan School of Music

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Challenge

Need to create a highly interactive and engaging environment in which to deliver world-class educational opportunities to students in a Cross-Continent MBA Program

Solution

Phase 1: install immersive telepresence global classroom at main and remote campuses. Phase2: Expand the classroom to include a “virtual world” environment for continued collaboration and group work

ResultDuke’s Fuqua School of Business Global Conference and Teaching System is an immersive collaboration experience enabling cross-continent MBA classes, employment interviews, admissions screening and effective distance learning.

Case Study

RESULT: A true to life environment that is just like being there.

“Immersive Telepresence participants definitely forget

about the distance that separates them, they feel like

they’re in the same room.”

Nevin FoutsAssociate Dean for Information Technology

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

DUKE UNIVERSITY

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Telepresence-enabled Classroom

Duke University

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Duke University Fuqua’s Global Conference System

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Challenge

To link two campuses on two different continents in two different time zones to create one realistic classroom experience.

Solution

Having recently opened the School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar), the first branch campus of the world-renowned Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, the University implemented Polycom’s RPX system and HDX 9002 systems to better connect these physically distant campuses. Located in Doha, the capital of the Middle Eastern emirate of Qatar, Georgetown’s Qatar campus provides a 4-year undergraduate degree in international politics to students from the Middle East and around the world.

ResultA ‘global classroom’ based on an immersive telepresenceexperience that facilitates ‘natural’ collaboration betweenthe classrooms to bring students and teacher closer togetherin one, interactive, real-time experience.

Case Study

“This truly opens the doors between Washington DC andDoha. This is at the heartof what we do as a global university. It’s exciting how many possibilities there are for powerful interactions in the future.”

James Reardon-AndersonDean for School of Foreign Service in Qatar

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Immersive Telepresence

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Segment Reference Solutions (Technology)

Voice

Infrastructure & Applications

High Definition &

Telepresence

HDX 8000HDX 7000 HDX 9000 RPXTPXHDX 4000

MGC FamilyRMXRSS 2000VMC 1000SE200 VBP

Polycom Communicator SoundStation VTX 7000 SoundPoint IP 670 SpectraLink 8000 Series

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Connecting & Collaborating From Your Computer

Access directory services Notice online/offline/busy status with icons Highlight a name and either Call or Call Right-click and modify users “friendly” name

Call “Non-Managed” H.323 systems or “Meet-Me” bridge rooms by entering IP or E.164 addresses

CMA Desktop Set Presence availability Set preferences as needed

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Key Programs

Honors Program Provides price reduction, training and memberships

Polycom Collaborations Around the Planet (CAPspace) Professional global network of educators for coursework

collaborations

E2Bconnect Professional network for education and businesses utilizing

videoconferencing to connect & collaborate

Content Searchable Database Programs offered by content providers i.e. museums, science

centers, universities etc…

Special Events www.polycom.com/education

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Summary, Shout Out, and How to Reach Me

Alain.civel@polycom.com

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