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Rationale Since year 2000, following an agreement with HP, when they enter Supelec students are able to buy a laptop and some engineering softwares with exceptional financial conditions. Since the beginning the goal was that they could be able to use all the computing resources from their laptop using a Wi-Fi network. Before the project, the network was not secured and the access points were not numerous enough to cover the rooms where students were used to study. So the only possible access to the network was using a browser to got to the Internet through a proxy as anonymous user. Access to any internal resource was denied due to security concerns.
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Implementation (pedagogy) During some courses where demonstations should have been useful, students were not able to practice and test live simulations. Now it's possible to generalize some experiments such as electronic simulations or video-conferencing during foreign languages courses. Some tests have just been done between Supelec in France and GeorgiaTech in Atlanta (GA).
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Implementation (technology) The two major technical aspects of the project were "radio coverage" and "network access security". As far as radio coverage is concerned, the HP Procurve Access Points (HP520wl) were used to extend our WiFi Meshed network deployed by France Telecom (the french national telecommuniation provider) on our campus. Staff and students can connect to the wireless network after a successful authentication (EAP-TTLS). The network trafic is encrypted by using either dynamic WEP or WPA (depending on the user's Wi-Fi interface capabilities). Permissions are enforced by assigning a VLAN that corresponds to the user's profile. For Guests access, temporary accounts can be created on the 720wl/740wl Access controlers and authentication is processed by a captive portal. Describe how technology is being used to support teaching and learning. What are the faculty & students doing with the technology? What software is being used/developed?
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Impact on Teaching and Student Learning Now that the infrastructure is in place, the efforts can be concentrated on developing courses using Information Technology. A working group has been created in 2005 called IPTICE (Innovation in Pedagogy using Technologies in Information and Communication for Education) to ask teachers for their needs and wishes and to define what could be the strategic directions for the next four years. Supelec will participate to national groups working on these technologies and the results will be shared and published on a dedicated web site.
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Quick Facts # Students Impacted: 800 # Faculty Involved: 50 This project is funded in part by a 2003 HP Technology for Teaching grant.
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Contact Us Computer Resources Center Daniel Clar Thibault Lemeur Email : Firstname.Lastname@supelec.fr
French Documentation
http://getapps.supelec.fr/apps/wifi/Acces_au_reseau_sans-fil_de_Supelec.html
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References & Publications The French Procurve Team has been very helpful for us. During a Procurve's customers meeting, Supelec gave a presentation on the current realisation.
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