Collaborative Learning Over Broadband Internet: “Dialog Through Music” Martin Brooks October 2, 2000 Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre have partnered with NRC, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), CANARIE (Canada’s Advanced Internet Development Organization) and the Canada - Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation in exploratory application of tomorrow’s Internet for international learning. On October 4, 2000, when the National Arts Centre Orchestra is in the Middle East, Maestro Zukerman will lead “Dialog Through Music”, where Israeli, Palestinian, and Canadian youth will share their emotional and creative responses to Beethoven’s famous melody “Ode to Joy” (from the Ninth Symphony). Three groups of ten high school students will connect by live video, with Israeli students and Maestro Zukerman in Tel Aviv, Palestinian students in Jerusalem, and Canadian students in Ottawa. Maestro Zukerman’s extensive experience with live video violin teaching, and the potential for NAC to use broadband learning technologies to build passion for the arts among all Canadians, makes this partnership between Arts and Sciences an exciting opportunity to explore our future. High-speed connectivity for this project will be provided by CA*net3, STAR TAP and the Internet 2 in Israel. In a few years we will all be experiencing an improved Internet based on new “broadband” technology. Basically, broadband means that the physical network connections will be carrying more information, and transporting it faster, than today’s Internet. These “fat pipes” will consist of optical fibre cables or, alternatively, radio transmission between fixed antenna and possibly satellites. A few years ago, it was impossible to imagine today’s Internet. Similarly, we do not know what tomorrow’s broadband Internet will be like. Researchers at NRC, CRC and CANARIE are exploring the broadband future. One focus of this research is to help people learn together by being able to see and talk to each other, across Canada and the world. In research language, we are exploring tools for “video-mediated communication” to facilitate “collaborative learning.” In plain language, this means is that we are using broadband Internet’s fat pipes to connect together groups of people at several sites by live video, allowing them to share and experience each others’ knowledge and ideas. For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical Internet program web site at www.canet3.net Contact: Martin.Brooks Martin.Brooks@nrc.ca
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