CyberSemester Goes to China

and the UC-Wide Conference on
Teaching and Learning Technologies
Goes to China

Tuesday, March 25, 1997


UC Berkeley	UC-Wide Conference	Tsinghua U

On March 25-26 '97 the invitational UC-Wide University Conference, TEACHING AND LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: PRESENT AND FUTURE, will bring together faculty, students, librarians, computer science researchers and instructional development experts from throughout the state of California to explore the various innovative ways that instructional technologies may enhance the educational experience of students. Most of the conference will be physically held at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. But all campuses can view it through Internet.

Through the magic of compressed video and MBONE, an Internet communication technology, selected sessions of this conference will be broadcast in 405 Soda Hall and 117 Dwinelle as a CyberSemester event at UC Berkeley.

At the end of the 1:30-3:00 pm panel (Tuesday, March 25) on CHANGING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE, UC President Atkinson will speak on the Internet broadcast to greet Wang Dazhong, President of the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Students and faculty at Tsinghua will receive the MBONE broadcast of both the UC-Wide University Conference and the CyberSemester broadcast from UC Berkeley. Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, an honorary member of the Tsinghua faculty, will join in through MBONE from 405 Soda Hall at UC Berkeley to explore possible partnerships between Tsinghua, UC Berkeley and CalVIEW, the distance learning program in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He will be joined by Paul Gray, Berkeley's Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science Professor Dave Patterson and Pam Atkinson, Director of the CalVIEW Program. Robert Yung, (Yung Chi Shing, in Cantonese) Chief Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and co-instructor (with Prof. Dave Patterson ) of CS 152, one of Berkeley's CalVIEW courses, will be with President Wang at Tsinghua University. Liang You Neng, Professor of Nuclear Technology, Director of CERNET Administration Committee and Vice President of Tsinghua University, will also be participating along with Hu DaoYuan, Director of CERNET (China Education Research NETwork). All participants see this as an opportunity to foster new partnerships between the University of California System and research universities in China.

Later in the day Tsinghua University will be hosting Vice President Al Gore, who will be giving a presentation on higher education and the value of Internet technologies. Tsinghua President Wang hopes to discuss our CyberSemester link to China and the UC-Wide University Conference as part of the dialogue between the Chinese and Al Gore.

Berkeley's Mechanical Engineering Professor and Associate Dean Alice Agogino, who is spearheading the College of Engineering's CalVIEW program in distance learning and instructional technologies, will be attending the UC-Wide University Conference at UCLA and will be giving a presentation at 5:20 pm on the Synthesis Coalition: Multimedia and Internet Enabling New Modes of Learning.

CS Professor Larry Rowe, Director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center will also be attending and has taken the lead role in the MBONE broadcast. The MBONE broadcast schedule is at: http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/arti cles/aucb.htm.

The UC Berkeley delegates to the UC-Wide University Conference include Alice Agogino, Peter Berck, Carol Christ, Barbara Gross Davis, Mary Kay Duggan, Charles Faulhaber, David Greenbaum, Diane Harley, Grant Harris, Martin Head-Gordon, S. Hermanowicz, Nicholas P. Jewell, Mark Kaiser, Jack McCredie, Mary S. Metz, Carolyn Porter, John Quigley, Divy Ravindranath, Larry Rowe, Pamela Samuelson, Andrew Shogan, Jasmina Vujic, and Robert Wilensky.

and the UC-Wide Conference on Teaching and Learning Technologies Goes to China

Tuesday, March 25, 1997

and the UC-Wide Conference on
Teaching and Learning Technologies
Goes to China