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Instruction 
Elluminate Live! technology enables global collaboration
How can technology applied in Iowa change the life of a child living halfway around the world? Ignacio Ponseti knows.
In the 1950s, Dr. Ponseti developed a procedure for correcting clubfoot without surgery. It came to be known as the Ponseti Method, and he’s been refining it ever since.
Most people Dr. Ponseti’s age – he’s 94 – would be sitting back and enjoying retirement. But the professor emeritus and UIHC physician can’t really do that – if only because his expertise is still in demand from physicians around the world.
So he relies on technology to teach others how to improve the lives of children born with clubfoot … and to avoid international travel.
Dr. Ponseti recently spoke about the Ponseti Method to a group of physicians in India, but he did it from an office in Iowa using Elluminate Live!
Elluminate Live! is a virtual meeting product that allows moderator-led, Internet-based e-learning and collaboration. Users have access to full duplex audio, sharing of PowerPoint presentations, instant messaging, application sharing, breakout rooms, recording sessions for later playback, and more.
Dr. Ponseti was able to lecture and take questions from the Indian physicians – who were located in New Dehli – just as easily as if they’d been sitting together in the same classroom. For more about their session, read the story in the Iowa City's Press-Citizen.
The University of Iowa - Iowa Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Distance Learning Consortium
The Iowa Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Distance Learning Consortium is a collaborative effort supported by Iowa’s three regents’ universities: Iowa State University (ISU), The University of Iowa (UI) and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI).
The partnership provides better access to resources through the use of multiple instructional delivery systems, including internet video conferencing and digital audio. Elementary Polish and elementary Czech language instruction began in Fall Semester 2002. These will be followed by intermediate Polish and Czech in 2003-2004, as well as elementary Serbo-Croatian. In addition to this language instruction, ten English language courses will be offered on a variety of cultural, historical, literacy, and political topics in Russian, East European, Eurasian studies. The consortium enjoys the considerable support of a number of sponsoring units: The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Program in Russian at the UI; the Department of Modern Languages, and the Russian and East European Studies program at UNI; and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at ISU. Read more about the Iowa Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Distance Learning Consortium...
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Research
The University of Iowa - University Research Consortium for CT Lung Imaging
Located at the University of Iowa is the University Research Consortium for CT Lung Imaging. The center is using H.323 videoconferencing in their CT scanning facility so that industrial and academic partners can seamlessly join an experiment without the need to fly to campus for each study. Funding was provided by the NIH Heart Lung and Blood Institute through a Bioengineering Research grant to advance the field of x-ray CT imaging to detect and follow early lung disease. The consortium consists of investigators from the University of Iowa Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, Marquette University, the University of Texas/Houston, the University of Auckland and the University of Washington.
A primary goal is to build a normal model/atlas of the human and mouse lungs based upon all of the measures we can make with CT scanning and scanning, in the case of the human, 3 decades of age range of the normal male and female to establish the ranges of normality for our various measures. Videoconferencing technology is also used for a multi-institutional training to support a promising graduate student or post doctoral fellow. The trainee will be able to participate in cross institutional lab meetings, journal clubs, etc and will be able to travel between institutions to learn specific techniques without loosing touch with daily lab activities.
Videoconferencing equipment: (3) Polycom VS 4000, (6) 20” LCD monitors, (8) Cameras, Speakers in each room, Wireless microphones, Crestron Control System.
The University of Iowa - Using Videoconferencing to Deliver TRAC Center Research Seminars
The overall goal of the TRajectories of Aging and Care (TRAC) Center is to expand the base of nurse scientists collaborating with leading investigators from a variety of disciplines to conduct nurse-directed interdisciplinary studies that examine longitudinal patterns of health, illness, function, and care in later life across diverse care contexts, including home and institution.
On the second Mondays of each month research presentations given by TRAC Center Investigators are delivered to 10 member sites using H.323 videoconferencing. Informal discussion follows the presentations. Read more about this activity...
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Examples At Other Institutions
Indiana State University
Indiana State University engages in videoconferencing through several mediums, one being distance education. There are five distance education classrooms across the ISU campus: two in Dreiser Hall, and one each in the College of Technology, College of Education and the College of Nursing. Each classroom is connected via fiber to a central switch that enables each room to be connected to various delivery systems: IHETS satellite, IP videoconferencing codecs, videostreaming, or other classrooms. All classrooms are staffed with a student worker who supports the instructor by operating the technology during the class. Read more about videoconferncing at Indiana State University...
Mid-South TeleHealth Consortium
We are utilizing over 70 remote sites to deliver healthcare to rural and underserved areas in the Mid-South. All of our sites are part of a completely private video network that comprises three states with 20 sites scheduled for addition this year. Read more about Mid-South TeleHealth Consortium and projects they support...
Texas A&M University
TTVN is the wide area data and video network for institutions of the Texas A&M University System that provides two-way multi-point digital videoconferencing and data transmission services to the system component institutions. This includes 10 universities, the Health Science Center, The Agriculture and Engineering Extension and Experiment agencies, The Texas Forest Service, and the Texas Transportation Institute. Several affiliate institutions consisting of colleges, universities, and Independent School Districts, are connected to the network due to academic relationships with TAMUS entities. Read more about videoconferencing at Texas A&M...
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Telepresence
A presentation by Ohio State University's Bob Dixon, Gabe Moulton, and Nicholas Thompson on low-cost telepresence solution was held at the Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Member.
The telepresence solution they discussed was the $70,000 LifeSize Telepresence System that consists of:
- Four cameras
- Three 60-inch monitors for video
- One 50-inch monitor for sharing data - slides, etc.
- Touch-screen control system
Slides from their presentation can be downloaded here.
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