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NANSLO RDN Services and Advantages

This section attempts to answer the questions:

"What advantage does an institution accrue by joining the NANSLO RDN?

Why would they want to join?

NANSLO RDN Services include:

• Remote Laboratory Services (RLS) from the NANSLO RDN.  This is our primary "product", so a value needs to be attached to it.
• Some Institutions will serve RLS to the RDN as well as utilize these services from the RDN,  Institutions that serve RLS to the RDN will recieve some advantage that will reduce the cost of their own use of RLS from the RDN.

NANSLO RDN Advantages include:

• Access to and participation in the Distributed RWSL Support Team (DRST)
• Access to RWSL Development Nodes (RD Nodes) dedicated to developing RWSL labs for members to serve (These will be the 'sandbox' development sites that do not need to service students)
• Participation in NANSLO RDN governance bodies and NANSLO RDN Standards committee.
• NANSLO RDN Scheduling Services

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April Meeting:

Need to consider downside possibilities such as loss of autonomy.

 May have to give priority to your own students first before serving needs of larger network.

Why support students outside of state or province?

Some of these benefits can be achieved even without being a consortia network

Add shared teaching to list

Use excess capacity for trading or for revenue? Or both?

Whatever capacity is unused could be available for faculty sandbox

Two levels to the network:

1. information sharing
2. service sharing

student excitement/engagement - precision of data