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Subject: Crosstalk/Ed Tech Partners Event - Tue Sept 7
From: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
To: itit-public@mit.edu, usability-announce@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:52:39 -0400
Please join us for this
first educational technology event of the new academic year.
Educational Technology Trends: Plug and Play Educational Software
How will the innovative digital repository and learning systems
being
developed at MIT work with commercial products and other available
tools? How far away are we from "Plug and Play" educational
software?
Come to this presentation for a view of the current state of
the art and
to learn about recent work in this area.
WHAT: Joint Crosstalk/Educational Technology Partners event (with
lunch)
WHEN: Tuesday, September 7, 11:00
WHERE: Mezzanine Lounge, W20-307
RSVP: By Fri, Sept 3 to edtech-events@mit.edu
Interoperability specifications such as those coming out of the
Open
Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) will allow new educational technologies
to
be more easily integrated with each other and with our growing
campus
infrastructure. MIT faculty and instructional staff will eventually
reap
the benefits of this trend when they can select and use their
applications of choice and know that they can be integrated in
useful
ways with other current and future educational software applications
and
tools.
Giunti Interactive Labs, which provides learning content and
knowledge
management services and products, has recently collaborated with
MIT as
part of the O.K.I project and as members of the IMS Global Learning
Consortium to utilize the O.K.I . Interoperability standards
intot their
products. Jeff Merriman from IS&T Academic Computing and
O.K.I., and
Niccolò Giaccone from Giunti Labs, will demonstrate how
Giunti utiilized
O.K.I Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs), in particular
the
Repository OSID, to more easily integrate digital repositories
of
learning content into their learn eXact Learning Content Management
System (LCMS).
The presentation will also cover Giunti's perspective on market
motivationsCrosstalk/Ed Tech Partners Event - Tue Sept 7 for
adopting
inteoperability standards and how educational technologists on
campus
might leverage a diverse marketplace of educational software.
--
Jean Foster
Communications Coordinator, Academic Computing
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
N42-040, x3-3909
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