NPAC prepares and delivers advanced computer science courses and tutorials in several practical areas (aka Internetics) including simulation, databases and Web technologies. These are put together in various ways for different classes of learner and have been offered in both USA and China. The Virtual University Webwisdom.org has been set up both to allow NPAC to deliver and help others deliver and prepare education and training using modern web techniques. Essentially all our material, which spans K-12, Undergraduate, Graduate and Continuing Education is available online. As well as course material, there are several asynchronous learning resources with examples and tutorials.

NPAC has leading edge technology to support education, which includes the Tango Interactive Virtual Classroom, Digital Video Archives , Audio Video Conferencing , Web linked interfaces to programming laboratories. The Pulsar site collects the work of Warner and Lipson on human computer interactions and resources for disabled individuals. Much of our work was developed with Syracuse’s school of education for the K-12 community as the Living SchoolBook project. and includes a Web based 3D Geographical Information System for use in virtual field trips.  Much of NPAC’s education technology is available commercially through the spin-off Webwisdom.com

Many Syracuse students work with NPAC on Masters and Ph.D. projects and we have a suggested strategy for new students.

Our work involves many critical partners including CRPC, the DoD PET Program and most recently the NSF funded national partnership in advanced computational infrastructure where we are working through NCSA as part of national coordinating team. At Syracuse University , we work especially with the Physics department, the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Education.

Experiences with Tango Interactive in Synchronous Distance Learning Courses The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University and the Computer Science Department at Jackson State University are now in their fourth semester of teaching computational science courses using the TANGO Interactive Virtual Classroom. All the course materials are on-line, and lectures are given twice a week in real time over the Internet. Amongst the links below are URL's for Java Courses, JavaScript Courseware, Distance Education Presentations and other courseware available at NPAC.