It’s Not About Speed and Terabytes! It’s about

Discovery, Engagement & Learning

David Longanecker, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education(WICHE) www.wiche.edu

Mike Abbiatti, Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (ARE-ON)http://www.areon.net/

Stephanie Couch, Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) http://www.cenic.org/

Sheri Prupis, NJEDge.Net - New Jersey's Higher Education Network http://www.njedge.net/

Broadband: Opportunities for Discovery, Engagement and Learning

Facilities-based Regional Optical Networks

Northern Tier Network Consortium & Other Regional Optical Networks

Shodor-- a national resource for computational science education http://www.shodor.org/

TeraGrid-see Science Gateways, Outreach and morehttp://www.teragrid.org/

Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)http://www.loni.org/

Mike’s examples

http://www.k20cetc.org/ http://pdrom.coursepath.org/ http://www.cahseesteps.net/ http://www.realgamecalifornia.org/ http://eportfolioca.org/ http://californiastem.org/ http://www.ilabcentral.org/

Stephanie’s examples

http://njvid.net – statewide video repository www.njtrust.net – NJTrust (Shibboleth)

Sheri’s examples

What can the broadband community learn fromthe WCET community to promote Discovery,Engagement and Learning? What’s happening inyour state, your region?

What next?