[edtech] Crosstalk/Ed Tech Partners Event - Tue Sept 7

[Jean Foster]

Please join us for this first educational technology event of the new  
academic year.

How will the innovative 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 active work in this area.

WHAT: Joint Crosstalk/Educational Technology Partners meeting (with  
lunch)
WHEN: Tuesday, September 7, 11:00
WHERE: Mezzanine Lounge, W20-307
RSVP: By Thu, Sept 2 to edtech-events at mit.edu
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  Educational Technology Trends: Current Trends in Plug and Play  
Educational Software

Giunti Interactive Labs, a company of the Giunti Publishing Group,  
provides content, learning & knowledge management services and  
products.  MIT has been working closely with Giunti Labs as part of the  
Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I) project and as members of the IMS  
Global Learning Consortium.  Giunti has recently begun to utilize  
O.K.I. Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs), in particular the  
Repository OSID, to more easily integrate its learn eXact Learning  
Content Management System (LCMS) with various digital repositories of  
learning content that support the specification.

Learn how Giunti Labs has approached the process of implementing OKI  
OSIDs, and other interoperability specifications, within their product,  
and what they see as the market motivation to engage in this sort of  
development activity.  Explore the benefit for MIT as more products  
begin to utilize such specifications to be more easily integrated with  
each other and with our growing campus infrastructure.  How might we  
better prepare ourselves to better leverage a diverse marketplace of  
educational software.

This session will feature Giunti Labs learn eXact Learning Content  
Management System, and offer a demonstration, not only of the features  
of learn eXact, but also how, through the specifications of the Open  
Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) products like this can be integrated in  
useful ways with other current and future educational software  
applications and tools of interest to MIT.
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Jean  Foster                                            
Academic Computing                               
MIT  Information Services and Technology  
(IS&T)                                                                  
Room N42-040F, 617.253.3909  jfoster at mit.edu