Go wireless @ 11 other Canadian Universities
Posted on February 17, 2009 by Hamish
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If you’ve checked the available wireless connections at Carleton on your computer lately, you’ll notice that there’s been a new addition to the family. Carleton’s new wireless network called Eduroam is been appropriately named because it allows students from 12 Canadian universities (9 confirmed including Carleton, 3 finalizing details) to access each other’s wireless networks when visiting another campus. It relieves the inconvenience of having to obtain guest permissions to access the internet at another institution’s campus simply because you’re not employed or enrolled there.
On a broader level, Eduroam highlights on their website that now host 450 wireless institutional participants in 250 countries of Europe, Asia and Australia. Carleton for one offers the same industry-standard encrypted Internet access for its Eduroam network as it does for CU-Wireless, although users should still be vigilant towards online threats.
Generally the same staff and student login credentials apply as you would normally enter on any of Carleton’s other two mainstream wireless networks, except for Eduroam your entire address must be inputted: for staff, enter your entire cunet email address (username@cunet.carleton.ca) and cunet password in the following field, and for students you should enter your entire connect email address (username@connect.carleton.ca) followed by your usual MyCarleton password.
It doesn’t take much convincing to know that there are serious benefits here. By deploying a wireless Internet utopia across a dozen universities (for starters) across the country, staff and visiting professors can gain immediate access to campuses’ wireless services simply by proving their national academic status; students can also take advantage of online services offered by their sister universities to peer conference and conduct research on the fly. What better way to encourage mLearning practices than to provide accommodation for mobile learning devices, not to mention the added ability for wireless academic collaboration, web conferencing, and other ways of communicating that was not possible before.
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