No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached:
Date:
May 1-2, 2002
Location:
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Sponsors:
The Campus Computing Project
Dell
Compaq
Apple
Palm
Higher Education Knowledge and Technology Exchange (HEKATE)
Converge
Oracle
Cisco
SCT
Sprint
SUN
Microsoft
IBM
HorizonLive
Blackboard
Peoplesoft

Purpose: A National and Virtual Conference and Showcase on the Application of Wireless Technology and Personal Digital Assistants in Higher Education.

In early May, CWRU will be hosting the first annual conference, No Strings Attached—dedicated to an exploration and the application of wireless technology and personal digital assistants (PDAs) in higher education. Proceedings, panels, and keynote addresses from No Strings Attached will be streamed over the Internet. During No Strings Atttache, on May 2nd, HEKATE will be hosting a track designed as a follow up to the April 8th HEKATE Wireless Local Area Network Teleconference.

For detailed agenda, attendee, presentation, abstracts, streaking video, speaker bios, confrence resources, hotels, an registration information click on the following link (

Reflection May 16th 2001 (by Doug Jackson):

Greetings to all of you and thanks for your participation in the May 1-2 No Strings Attached conference on wireless issues in higher ed.
Again, I would like to express thanks to HEKATE and Case Western Reserve University for their help in setting this up and making it happen.
Trying to bring together a group this size and pursue meaningful discussion while arriving at sensible conclusions is difficult at best. But I think most everyone was able to get their concerns voiced and significant information was shared. That is important in its own right. It is obvious that there is a significant set of concerns here that we should continue to pursue.
Participants this time included (among others):

Carnegie Mellon University
University of Texas
Dallas University of British Columbia
Canada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sprint
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville University of Michigan
Case Western Reserve University
Harvard University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Agere Systems
Vanderbilt University
Columbia University
University of Rochester
Funk Software
Northwestern University
Georgia Tech
Cisco Systems

Schedule

Wednesday April 9, 2002

Description / Time
Lunch Welcome and Kickoff
Lev Gonick, Case Western Reserve University / 12:00 - 12:50
Plenary Session #1- Keynote Presentation-
Constantine Papadakis - President Drexel University
/ 1:00 - 1:50
Quicktime VR on Handhelds
Jared Bendis - CWRU
QuickTime VR is one of the most exciting forms of New Media that exists today. VR Panoramas offer 360 degree (cylindrical or cubic) views of a place while VR Objects allows you to study an object from all sides. Regretfully, there currently is no QuickTime VR viewer for handhelds.....more / 2:00 - 2:50
' Turn those things off! ': Controlling Wireless Networking during class and exams
Ed Cloutier- University of Western Ontario
The benefits of wireless networking are often summarized by the expression "anytime - anywhere". However, in higher education, there are indeed some times when access to the Internet -- and to each other -- is at the least inappropriate (during certain class events), or in the extreme flat-out wrong (during exams)....more / 2:00 - 2:50
Maximizing the ROI on Wireless Implementations
Tom Gaylord - University of Akron
Given the need to articulate the trade-offs every academy has to address when having to choose what to fund, proposing any high cost technology project today requires an assessment of centrality to mission, delimiting risk....more / 2:00 - 2:50
The Role of Roaming Between 802.11 and 3G in Taking Critical Care from the Bedside to the Roadside
John Clochesy - CWRU
Faculty from Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth Medical Center are developing a project that builds on the successful seamless handoff of wireless video and voice between wireless local area networks based on IEEE 802.11 and a third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UTMS)....more / 3:00 - 3:50
The Challenges We Face: Network Capacity, Management & Control, Convergence, & Security
Mark Uhardt - Sprint
Institutions are going wireless at a rapid pace. Campus network infrastructures are being upgraded to bring broadband services to nearly every user. Precious bandwidth is being gobbled up at an alarming rate while the risk of the new technology bringing potential chaos to campus networks continues to increase.....more / 3:00 - 3:50
In the Eye of a Tornado, Next Generation Digital Services from a Business School Perspective
Kalle Lyytinen, CWRU
This talk will discuss changes in the information and digital service landscape in the next decade. Digital convergence, changes in the telecommunications infrastructure, the shift to wireless and establishment of an electronic trading infrastructure Examples of new service concepts from Japan, Finland and the U.S. are provided. The major part of the talk will focus on highlighting what this change will mean for business school education.....more / 3:00 - 3:50
Wireless Classroom Experiments
Angel Hernandez - Purdue University
To maintain Purdue University's world-class service to its 38,000 students, we are adopting campus-wide, wireless devices (e.g., palm pilots) for classroom and lab instruction. Our two pilot studies tell of our goals for this massive project, device selection, ways to encourage faculty and student use, and technical support suggestions....more / 4:00 - 4:50
802.11 Wireless Overview
Dan Cusick - Cisco
This presentation will provide an introductory review of 802.11 technologies and an industry overview. It will then explore current technology trends and applications for wireless LAN in todayís business environment....more / 4:00 - 4:50
Wireless Use by First and Second Year Medical Students at CWRU
Thomas M. Nosek, Ph.D. & David M. Pilasky
The Office of Biomedical Information Technologies began implementing limited wireless access for first and second year medical students in the winter of 2001. This past fall (2002), wireless access was made ubiquitously available throughout the student classroom areas (large lecture halls and small group conference rooms) in the School of Medicine....more / 4:00 - 4:50
Description / Time
Plenary Session #1
Mike Lorion - Vice President for Education,Palm
NO DESCRIPTION....more / 9:00 - 9:50
Building a High-Use Campus-Wide WLAN
Col. Welch - U.S. Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point has the mission to develop educated leaders of character who will contribute to the nationís defense. A first rate education is a key aspect of officer development. As studies have shown active learning is the most effective educational form, and we believe that an information rich environment best facilitates active learning....more / 10:00 - 10:50
Facilitating Clinical Supervision and Distance Education
to Students in Community Practice Settings
John Clochesy - CWRU
Faculty from Case Western Reserve University are developing a project that builds on the successful seamless handoff of wireless video and voice between wireless local area networks based on IEEE 802.11 and a third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UTMS) and the Kelvin Smith Libraryís Center for Statistics and Geospatial Data....more / 10:00 - 10:50
Focus Session Creating a National Research Institute on Wireless Technology in Education & Industry
Arlene Krebs & Panel - CSU/MB
Over the past year, CSU Monterey Bay has been conducting researchóa needs analysis--and planning for the Research Institute. This session will review what we learned, and spotlights the activities, research, initiatives and partnerships that the Institute will begin....more / 10:00 - 10:50
Managing Wireless on the Campus
Patrick Rafter - BlueSocket Inc.
Mobile devices and wireless LANs are changing how and where students, faculty, staff and alumni learn, work and interact. Keeping this liberating technology creates interesting challenges for campus IT departments....more / 11:00 - 11:50
Seamless Roaming between 803.11 & 3G
Prashant Chopra, Jeff Gumpf, Kevin Chan, Tom Trelvik
PDA and Laptops users able to move from an 802.11 wireless local area campus network to 3G network no interruption in service....more / 11:00 - 11:50
The Campus Commons
Shirish Netke - Sun Microsystems
The role of IT management has evolved from managing systems and applications to providing services to user community. This is extending to every facet of operations on a campus from the registrar's office to back end administration to the student desktop....more / 11:00 - 11:50
Plenary Session #2 - From No Strings I to II
John Dubois - Microsoft
In year's time many of the technologies discussed at the first No Strings Attached conference have arrived or matured. Next generation mobile networks, devices and applications present a complex equation for successfully leveraging useful, easy to use and affordable mobile solutions and technologies....more / 1:00 - 1:50
WLAN Threats and Countermeasures
Col Welch - U.S. Military Academy
High bandwidth wireless local area networks are gaining popularity. Along with this popularity has come a well publicized series of vulnerabilities in the IEEE standard implementations. In response, a number of standards from wired networking (e.g. 802.1x and IPsec) are being adopted to wireless. Vendors are also developing and selling proprietary security solutions....more
/ 2:00 - 2:50
Wireless R&D From The Campus to the Community
Arlene Krebs, CSU Monterey Bay
At No Strings Attached in May 2002, we described an initiative to plan a National Research Center On Wireless Technology in Education. This year, we will provide updates on the Center as well as on the research and demonstration projects that faculty at CSU Monterey Bay and Western Michigan University are conducting....more / 2:00 - 2:50
Video Broadcasting Over Data Networks
Tim Ward - Northwestern University
Twenty entertainment television channels are being delivered to campus in Northwestern University's undergraduate residence halls in a new and innovative way via the University's IP multicast-enabled data network and students' desktop computers....more / 2:00 - 2:50
Video on Demand, Video Broadcasting and Video Conferencing - a Case Study
John Kundtz - IBM
Last summer The Cleveland Municipal School District and IBM Global Services designed and implemented an IP-based video network covering 130 locations for the District. The project included three main technologies: Video Conferencing, Video Broadcast, and Video-on-Demand....more / 3:00 - 3:50
Structuring a scalable, flexible and long-lasting WLAN campus
Sandeep Singhal - Reefedge
The campus wireless LAN must address the needs of multiple constituencies: students, who require easy access with mobility; faculty, who seek to use the network as both a research and teaching tool; administrators, who use the network to improve productivity; and IT managers, who much deliver a manageable and scalable network environment....more / 3:00 - 3:50
WLAN An Operator's Perspective
David Deas - SBC
With the explosion of 802.11b WLAN over the past few years, there have been many attempts to commercialize the technology. From an operatorís perspective, WLAN will not revolutionize the business much as cellular telephony has done over the past 20 years....more / 3:00 - 3:50
The Next Level of Distributed Learning
Robert Mckenney - Ohio State University
The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health medical students are required to do a 12-week ambulatory clerkship in their third year. During this period, they are given materials (broken down weekly) that they must review/learn. Each week has different health care components....more / 4:00 - 4:50
PDA Solutions for Connectivity, Communications
and Collaborations
Kevin Mamajek - Palm
As a leader in providing mobile communication solutions in the handheld computer space, we will highlight the Palm Solutions Group's current handheld models and the technologies they are built upon, highlighting connectivity, communication, and collaboration....more / 4:00 - 4:50
802.11 Standards and Security
Dan Cusick - Cisco
This presentation will focus on providing a general update on IEEE 802.11 standards initiatives and their impact to the market. It will also discuss the various aspects of wireless security and the impact that 802.11i and WPA will have on the market....more / 4:00 - 4:50
Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland Ohio
Chasing the Digital Puck
Kenneth C. Green, Campus Computing Project Founder
Hockey star Wayne Gretsky once quipped that the reason for his success was that he skated to where the puck was going, not to where it is. Many involved in the broad array of initiatives and activities known as “campus computing” feel as if they are chasing a fast moving digital puck, propelled by new technologies, student and faculty expectations, competitive pressures, and decades of great aspirations for the role of technology in education.t....more
Description / Time
Using PDAs for Research Data Collection: Choosing the Right Tools
Paul Stork - CWRU
Research designs frequently include the collection of periodic logs or journals to be filled out by research participants. This type of data can be difficult to collect and even more difficult to validate when there are a number of subjects involved in the study....more / 9:00 - 9:50
Student Use of Handheld Computers in Ambulatory Clerkships
Jason Chao - CWRU
Handheld computers are being used by an increasing numbers of physicians and offer many advantages to enhance medical student education. Decentralized ambulatory clerkships need information about patient care experiences for monitoring and improving clerkship education....more / 9:00 - 9:50
Bluetooth Basics
Andrew Jones - CWRU/Apple
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless protocol operating in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz radio spectrum ensuring communication compatibility worldwide. The Bluetooth specification use a spread spectrum, frequency hopping, full-duplex signal at up to 1600 hops/sec to give a high degree of interference immunity. Bluetooth devices can form ad-hoc networks allowing for instant information sharing between devices....more / 9:00 - 9:50
Wireless OPAC Today
Doug Randall - Innovative Resources
NA review of the state of the wireless OPAC art today -- beginning with user expectations of presentation and access in today's wired Online Public Access Catalog, continuing with examples of Innovative's new wireless catalog...more / 10:00 - 10:50
Going Mobile-Developing Handheld Applications for Students, Faculty and Administrators
Debra Elias-Smith - SCT
The Weatherhead School of Management recently developed two mobile applications to support learning processes. In this panel, the developers of these applications will share key technical challenges-both expected and unanticipated-that they faced during the development and deployment of these tools....more / 10:00 - 10:50
Interactive PowerPoint - Can it Really Enhance Learning
Mike Broderick - Turning Technologies
The use of PowerPointÆ as a tool for curriculum and presenter support increases annually. In fact, it has become nearly ubiquitous to most classroom and distributed learning environments. Simultaneously, a major debate has grown over the real benefits of adding PowerPointÆ to the classroom....more / 10:00 - 10:50
Panel Discussion - Developing Wireless Applications for Higher Education: Lessons from the Trenches
Youngjin Yoo - CWRU
The Weatherhead School of Management recently developed two mobile applications to support learning processes. In this panel, the developers of these applications will share key technical challenges-both expected and unanticipated-that they faced during the development and deployment of these tools....more / 11:00 - 11:50
A New Dimension of Student-Teacher Interaction
Sudipa Kirtley - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
For the past decade, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) has provided its students the best computers available, and has supported the required infrastructure, in order to enhance studentsí learning experiences....more / 11:00 - 11:50
Speaker To Be Announced
Oracle
NO DESCRIPTION / 11:00 - 11:50
Ahead of The Curve
Technology, Leadership and the Future of Education
/
1:00 - 2:00

Abstracts from No Strings Attached 2002

Security on a Wireless LAN
Wireless local area networks, or WLANs, are hot at universities. Some schools are even promoting their campus-wide WLANs to prospective students. But how are universities securing their WLANs? Can you make it easy for students, faculty, and staff to use a WLAN while still controlling access to sensitive data on your network? Can you protect the privacy of sensitive data that is transmitted over a large area using radio waves? What security standards exist, and what is the future of WLAN security? This presentation answers these and other questions, demystifying WLAN security and separating hype from reality.
The Next Level of Distributed Learning: The Introduction of PDA's to Third and Fourth Year Medical Students and Residents
The Ohio State College of Medicine and Public Health has been aggressively pursuing portable solutions for students when it comes to their educational experiences, successes, and options. Last year, the Palm m505 (with an expandable bay) was introduced. Specifically, these PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants) were distributed to residents and third and fourth year students. PDA-friendly resources for these individuals and faculty are evolving throughout the medical center, which has worked to be at the forefront in the use of this technology. Future introduction of PDA's will include more built-in memory, better resolution, and sound capability since the handheld computer technology is rapidly evolving.
The use of PDA's (further distribution will occur this June) has opened a number of possibilities and opportunities to enhance the educational experience and concept of distributed learning. Additionally, it may be noted that although they (PDA's) are given to residents and third and fourth year students, their use is increasing among the allied areas and first and second year medical students.
Part of the PDA overall effort is to place educational/school-related materials/modules in a PDA-friendly format that would permit retrieval and use via the Internet and/or a PDA. Admittedly, handheld units are increasingly used in the educational and healthcare setting. The stability of Palm's operating system, as an example, is one of the reasons that these units are attractive to both the users and the information providers. Initially introduced into the market by vendors as a way to store addresses, calendar events, memos and to-do lists, their capability have now extended far beyond with the use medication reference tools, electronic textbooks, etc. With the use of the Internet, we can deliver materials that may not only be viewed on-line, but also retrieved and stored on the PDA for viewing at a later time (such as when a computer may not be available, or Internet connectivity is not optimal). Interaction with a learning module may be achieved with updates acquired through future synching and storage. Bottom line. . . the "on-line" experience is no longer limited to being next to a computer.