Learning Center Installed

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Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/01/2002 - 12:00

In February of 2002, a new Learning Center was installed in Odessa Seminary. This was a joint project between Odessa Theological Seminary (OTS) and MAF and will serve as the basis for a Distance Education thrust into the Ukraine, Armenia and Central Asia. It is our largest Learning Center to date.

Mike Holman and Vladimir Korzunin, from the MAF team, went to Odessa for 10 days to install the system and to train the team that will be overseeing the center. The OTS DE Coordinator, Victor Kalashnikov, was trained in network administration and email/econference system management. His two student support admins, Pavel and Boris, were trained in how to add files to the server. Training went very well and they have a solid understanding and ability to administer the system.

The installation was very successful and the students are enthusiastically using the 2.5 gb of Biblical Reference materials and our new Bible study. They are elated at having access to the new private email and reference materials. With this network, all faculty and students have private email accounts and private file space on the server, which connects to our Moscow server for mail service.

Three of the OTS faculty: Sergei Borushko, Dr. Ray Trantham, and Victor Kalashnikov have committed to doing the Analysis, Design, Development (content and collaboration chunking), Construction (using our frame standards and Dreamweaver), and Delivery of a course. Richard Morris and Ron Banks of MAF will support their efforts in this area.

MAF supplied:

  • 1 large server consisting of the following:
    • 80gb of drive space
    • 400mhz processor
    • 256mb ram
    • Modem.
  • 6 other workstation machines
  • $100 for network installation materials.

OTS supplied:

  • OTS DE Coordinator, who will be responsible for the oversight of the network
  • Two students for administration of the network
  • Some existing machines
    • 5 faculty machines
    • 2 library machines
    • 6 study center machines
  • $1500 for monitors, UPS and network hardware. [1000 plus equipment shipping costs from the seminary and 500 from faculty donations (Ray)].

We now have:

  • Fully operational Learning Centers in Moscow, Tver, Obenisk, Krosnodar, Kiev, and Odessa Theological Seminary
  • Krosnodar Rehab, and Voronezh to be installed by April 1
  • Chelobinsk to be installed by June 1 (all hardware and desks have been purchased)

We also have requests for learning centers in Omsk, Armenia, Tyumen, Bryansk, Rybinsk, Tula, KKursk and Novi Sibersk. They are just waiting for funding.

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