Contributors

The organizations listed here are those which have contributed to the O.K.I. project at MIT.  We are thankful for thier generous support.

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UOC, in English, Open University of Catalonia, is a completely virtual university founded in 1995. It currently has more than 40,000 students and offers several official undergraduate degrees as well as several graduate programs, including the PhD program on Information and Knowledge Society. UOC’s virtual campus is an integrated e-learning environment that allows students to pursue their studies completely online except for final exams, when appropriate.

UOC offers intensive use of information and communications technologies (ICT), thereby enabling users to overcome the barriers imposed by time and space and to offer an educational model based on personalized attention for each individual student. UOC

For more information please contact Francesc Noguera, fnoguera@uoc.edu or visit http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/

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Verbena Consulting is a professional services company offering a range of interoperability strategy and solution services.  We have been working with emerging standards for interoperability in higher education, with particular focus on the Open Knowledge Initiative.  The firm has provided strategy, system design, software development, and documentation services for a number of open source projects and to select commercial companies.  Jeff Kahn, a principal, has been an invited technical speaker at a variety of industry events.

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Giunti Labs

Giunti Labs provides you with a wide choice of services, in response to any Content, Learning and Knowledge Management need. Thanks to our innovative technologies and methodologies, we are able to provide you with full support for the development of your new generation eLearning projects. Giunti Labs’ solutions can be summarised in five key areas:

• Content Production
• R&D
• Technological solutions for Content, Learning & Knowledge Management
• Architectural and technological solutions for Mobile & Wireless
• Training and Consulting

With offices in Sestri Levante, Florence, Milan, Rome, Boston, Frankfurt and Richmond (UK) Giunti Labs has a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

     

MIT’s Office of Educational Innovation and Technology works with faculty, staff and students to enable and promote the development and dissemination of innovative uses of technology in teaching and learning. This is accomplished through an innovation cycle which involves:

• Investigating new and emerging technologies, and exploring opportunities for their adoption to support education at MIT.
• Establishing links with MIT departments to monitor emerging innovations and IT needs.
• Assisting faculty in locating, building and integrating technologies that support a wide range of pedagogical models.
• Supporting MIT initiatives through the development, adoption & implementation of sustainable & educationally valuable software tools.
• Implementing test-beds for promising educational technologies and new services, to advance teaching and learning.
• Developing plans for the incubation, early implementation, and the transitioning of delivery systems to long-term core service providers.
• Engaging with interested MIT departments, labs, and centers to integrate technology into the curriculum.
• Work closely with the Teaching and Learning Lab and the Office of Faculty Support to enable and support Educational Innovation at MIT.

OEIT Mission:

The Office of Educational Innovation and Technology engages with the MIT community to develop, disseminate and advance the sustainability of educational innovation through the strategic use of technology.

MIT’s OEIT currently hosts the Open  Knowledge Initiative and the O.K.I. Phase II project.

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