From jpotts at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct  4 09:19:11 2004
From: jpotts at MIT.EDU (Jon Paul Potts)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:19:11 -0400
Subject: [edtech] OpenCourseWare Forum this afternoon
Message-ID: <a06002002bd86fd297ce5@[18.89.2.233]>

I would like to remind all of the EdTech Partners of the 
OpenCourseWare Community Forum Discussion on the benefits of open 
sharing that will be hosted by the MIT OpenCourseware Faculty 
Advisory Committee this afternoon (Monday, October 4), featuring a 
keynote presentation by William G. Bowen, President of the Mellon 
Foundation and the former President of Princeton University.

Bill Bowen will share his views on open sharing of educational 
materials, and why the Mellon Foundation chose to financially support 
MIT's OCW initiative. This will also be an opportunity for the MIT 
OCW Faculty Advisory Committee to publicly recognize Chuck Vest and 
Bob Brown for their leadership and support of OpenCourseWare, which 
have been vital to OCW reaching the 900 course milestone in September.

The event will be held this afternoon in Room 10-250, starting at 4 
pm, followed by a reception directly downstairs in Building 10 in the 
Bush Room. You and your colleagues are all welcome.

We hope to see you there!

Best,
Jon Paul Potts
MIT OCW Communications Manager

-- 
"OpenCourseWare will help to raise the quality of higher education in 
every corner of the globe."
					- MIT President Charles M. Vest

Jon Paul Potts
Communications Manager
MIT OpenCourseWare
Building 9-211
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-452-3621
jpotts at mit.edu
http://ocw.mit.edu

From katiel at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct  4 14:41:44 2004
From: katiel at MIT.EDU (Katie Livingston Vale)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:41:44 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Fwd: ED-MEDIA 2005 Call (Montreal, Canada)
Message-ID: <p06200c0dbd8749c1d0eb@[18.152.2.13]>

Here's info about the conference I mentioned during our meeting today...

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>        >> Call for Participation Deadline: December 20th <<
>
>                      * Please forward to a colleague *
>
>                http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
>_______________________________________________________________
>
>                           ED-MEDIA 2005
>
>    World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
>             Hypermedia & Telecommunications
>
>       June 27-July 2, 2005  *  Montreal, Canada
>
>                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>
>           ** Submissions Due: Dec. 20, 2004 **
>
>                                 Organized by
>Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
>                            http://www.aace.org
>______________________________________________________________
>
>** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? **
>     http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm
>
>COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2005 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/edmed05poster.pdf
>
>
>                   >> CONTENTS & LINKS  (details below) <<
>
>1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Dec. 20th:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge
>
>2. NEW: Student Panels: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentpanels.htm
>3. Major Topics:  www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm
>
>4. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
>5. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: 
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm
>
>6. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
>7. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm
>
>8. Montreal, Canada:  http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Montreal
>9. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm
>
>
>INVITATION:
>ED-MEDIA 2005--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia &
>Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the
>Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This
>annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion
>and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications
>on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and
>telecommunications/distance education.
>
>ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all
>disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees
>from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit
>proposals for presentations.
>
>All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and 
>selected by three reviewers on the
>respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the
>conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.
>
>For Call for Presentations, connect to:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
>
>All authors MUST follow the submission 
>guidelines and complete the Web form at:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
>
>For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge
>
>
>PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
>* Keynote Speakers
>* Invited Panels/Speakers
>* Papers
>* Panels
>* Student Panels  (NEW)
>* Demonstrations/Posters
>* Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
>* Tutorials/Workshops
>* Roundtables
>
>
>>>  STUDENT PANELS (NEW) <<
>
>The objective of the Student Panel series is to 
>provide a forum for the interchange of 
>avant-garde visions of enhancing education 
>through technology. These 1 hour discussion 
>sessions, consisting of two 15 minute student 
>presentations each, will emphasize exploring 
>novel theoretical frameworks, rather than 
>current best practices.
>
>Submission information: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
>Description of panels and topics: 
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentpanels.htm
>
>
>TOPICS:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm
>
>The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following
>major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of
>multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:
>
>1. Infrastructure: (in the large)
>     - Architectures for Educational Technology Systems
>     - Design of Distance Learning Systems
>     - Distributed Learning Environments
>     - Methodologies for system design
>     - Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
>     - WWW-based course-support systems
>
>2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications:
>     - Agents
>     - Authoring tools
>     - Evaluation of impact
>     - Interactive Learning Environments
>     - Groupware tools
>     - Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications
>     - Research perspectives
>     - Virtual Reality
>     - WWW-based course sites
>     - WWW-based learning resources
>     - WWW-based tools
>
>3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner:
>     - Constructivist perspectives
>     - Cooperative/collaborative learning
>     - Implementation experiences
>     - Improving Classroom Teaching
>     - Instructor networking
>     - Instructor training and support
>     - Pedagogical Issues
>     - Teaching/Learning Strategies
>
>4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI):
>     - Computer-Mediated Communication
>     - Design principles
>     - Usability/user studies
>     - User interface design
>
>5. Cases & Projects:
>     - Country-Specific Developments
>     - Exemplary projects
>     - Institution-specific cases
>     - Virtual universities
>
>6. Special Strand:  ** Universal Web Accessibility  **
>    - Emerging Technologies & Accessibility
>    - Infrastructure, Technology & Techniques
>    - International Challenges
>    - New Roles for Teachers/Learners
>    - Other: Research, Library Issues, etc.
>    - Policy and Law
>    - Site Management Considerations
>
>
>PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
>The Technical Program includes a wide range of 
>interesting and useful activities
>designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.
>
>CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm
>
>Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational
>technology products and services in through 
>Corporate Showcases and 
>Demonstrations/Literature.
>
>
>PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS:
>http://www.aace.org/pubs
>Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the 
>Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM.
>Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/
>hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of
>the art in the discipline.  In addition, the 
>Proceedings also are internationally distributed 
>through and archived in the AACE Digital 
>Library, http://www.aace.org/DL
>
>Selected papers may be invited for publication 
>in may be invited for publication in AACE's 
>respected journals especially in the
>- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH),
>- International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or
>- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).
>
>All presented papers will be considered for Best 
>Paper Awards within several categories.
>Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals.
>
>
>FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm
>
>The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
>approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members).
>Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions
>except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee.
>
>All conference sessions will be held at the Le 
>Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel 
>(http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/hotel.htm) 
>located in the heart of Montreal's shopping, 
>restaurant, and entertainment district.  Special 
>discount hotel and Delta Airlines rates have 
>been obtained for ED-MEDIA participants.
>
>
>Montr?al: Life ? la Montr?al, Warm & Welcoming
>http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Montreal
>
>What do you get when you combine the smarts of 
>North America with the laid-back insouciance of 
>Europe? 350 years of progress with the friendly 
>nature of a village? High-tech and high style? 
>You get the city of Montr?al - an unpretentious 
>knockout that has no idea of the effect she has 
>on people. Why? Because the driving force behind 
>this unique hybrid is the Montr?al mantra: Get 
>out there and celebrate life. And, it must be 
>said, life lived ? la Montr?al is about as sweet 
>as it gets. From her festivals (Montr?al is the 
>undisputed festival capital of the world), to 
>her incredible food, to her legendary nightlife, 
>this city has a true talent for making the very 
>most and best out of life's little pleasures.
>
>Located about an hour from the U.S. border in 
>south-western Qu?bec, Montr?al is the largest 
>French-speaking city in North America. This is 
>not a sprawling urban centre by North American 
>standards, and that's part of Montr?al's charm. 
>No "donut" town, there is no 6 pm exodus to 
>parts unknown. Montrealers live, work and play 
>in a compact downtown core. Safe, clean and 
>green, this city is good to her citizens and 
>guests alike, who lunch and lounge on terraces 
>for nice, long sessions of people-watching (a 
>sacred Montr?al ritual), stroll, hike or bike on 
>mount Royal (a natural haven right downtown), 
>take in the sights and sounds of Old Montr?al 
>and the Old Port. This is a place that 
>understands following one's fancy.
>
>Montr?al has an international reputation for 
>creative excellence, not just in the traditional 
>arts, but in cutting-edge technology, 
>multimedia, sound and film production.
>
>Perhaps it's the Latin blood. The passion 
>Montrealers bring to whatever they do is felt 
>everywhere; certainly in international tours de 
>force like Cirque du Soleil, La La La Human 
>Steps, C?line Dion. But you can feel it too as 
>your chef comes to ask you truly, sincerely, how 
>you liked your cr?me br?l?e, and to raise a 
>glass to your health. It's warm, it's relaxing, 
>it's fascinating, it's thrilling. It's life ? la 
>Montr?al.
>
>When summer beckons in Montr?al, everyone and 
>everything heeds her call. The city's many parks 
>and squares are decked out in flowerbeds, 
>fountains, greenery and cool stretches of water. 
>Impromptu gatherings of friends and family 
>animate the colourful balconies, beginning at 
>Happy Hour or "5 ? 7" and continuing well into 
>the warm nights. The entire island moves to the 
>traffic-stopping beat of street festivals or 
>fairs and everyone - locals and visitors - takes 
>part in the scene on foot, bikes or blades.
>
>Montr?al is an ideal location for ED-MEDIA 2005, 
>June 27-July 2, 2005. We look forward to seeing 
>you there!
>
>For more information about Montr?al, see:
>http://www.tourism-montreal.org/   http://www.montreal.com/tourism/index.html
>For more information about Quebec, see:  http://www.bonjourquebec.com/
>
>
>DEADLINES:
>http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm
>
>Submissions Due:          December 20, 2004
>Authors Notified:             February 24, 2005
>Proceedings File Due:    May 3, 2005
>Early Registration:          May 3, 2005
>Hotel Reservations:        June 4, 2005
>Conference:                   June 27-July 2, 2005
>
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Katie Livingston Vale
Educational Technology Consulting
MIT Academic Computing
http://web.mit.edu/acs


From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct  4 15:31:51 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:31:51 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Partners meeting notes - 10/4/2004
Message-ID: <0AA96F6C-163C-11D9-A5B6-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>

(Please let me know if I got any of the details wrong)
Present: Jean Foster(IS&T Academic Computing), Katie Vale(IS&T AC), 
DeeDee Kane(SloanSpace), Peter Hess(SMA), Molly Ruggles(SMA), Marsha 
Sanders (Provost's Office/MITCET) Margret 
Branschofsky(DSpace-Libraries), John Dennett(OCW), William 
Reilly(Libraries), John Dvorak(MIT Auditors Office)

Roundtable:
SloanSpace:
Major server upgrade the week before the class of 2006 arrived. Entire 
summer devoted to the upgrade. No new functionality but this opens the 
path for future enhancements.  They conducted feedback interviews with 
faculty and TAs, and will be doing students next.  They had a 
consultant help with the protocol and interviews. Presented a report to 
the dean. They are going to prioritize a list of new features from 
this.  The results confirmed what they already knew.

Libraries Digital Archiving: Archving from OCW to DSpace. When a new 
OCW class is put up the old version would be archived in DSpace.  They 
are writing metadata, so that faculty can pull out reusable learning 
objects.  Also pulling in entire OCW site. Using IMS-cp (content 
package) & METS metadata encoding and transmitting standard) Planning 
and specing  prototypes at this point.

OCW: They just met their latest publishing milestone. As of Sept 17 
there are 900 MIT subjects published!  They believe they are at the 
halfway point and so are  having a celebration today for the MIT 
community - 4:00 in 10-250 and then the Bush Room for cocktails.  
Future plans: an OCW conference in 2005; working with other schools who 
want to have their own OCW.  There are many foreign language 
translations, spanish, chinese, taiwanese.  Partners in Utah University 
of Utah(?) is stating a set of 7 forums with faculty who will work on 
discussion boards with people who are trying to learn from the course.  
Learning communities - partnering with university in Utah, they are 
starting a set of 7 forums, which will have faculty participating 
through discussion boards,.

- OCW Organization changes: 2 FLs from other cycles Farnaz (was 
EECS,Civil, & Aero) is now the outreach liaison to institutions outside 
MIT.  Sandy M. (was SHASS, HST liaison) is now the production manager & 
is doing faculty video interviews).  More staged video lectures & lab 
demos in future.  Millions of people are visiting the OCW site and 
their are lots of regular repeat visitors.   New assessment surveys 
will be conducted this fall.  Next big effort is recruiting faculty for 
the next cycle. Helping faculty transcribe notes. These can then be put 
on the current Stellar site.  They are hiring students to take notes 
for OCW at the discretion of the instructor.   Some of the OCW 
Department Liaisons are auditing courses and taking their own notes.  
They have until 2007 for the next 900. They are still giving some funds 
to each course. ($2k)  After that they will be in "steady state", 
adding as needed & maintaining.

Academic Computing:
Katie is now the group leader of Educational Technology Consultants.  
ETCs are doing more project-based consulting. Phil is 50% director of 
iCampus outreach.  Jean is the Academic Computing communications person 
reporting to Vijay.  New group for Installations and Spaces led by Bill 
Fitzgerald.  Another Software Tools group led by Jeff Merriman.
- Katie and Carter Snowden working on an Ed Tech Projects Inventory 
pilot - collecting information about all of the ed tech projects at 
MIT.  They have started wtih the School of Science, SHASS, They have 
set up a database.  Surprising amount of projects going on and some 
surprising findings about which depts are doing what.  The report will 
be out soon. Katie and Carter will present at a future Ed Tech Partners 
about this. They are hoping the report will be reviewed by the end of 
the semester.  The pilot is successful enough and there is enough 
interest in the data for the project to continue.
* John Dennett suggested that the OCW micro teams might be of use by 
the end of October after they have made all of the contacts for the 
current semester. Katie should call John at the end of October.
This inventory is of interest to DSpace as well.

DSpace:
Version 1.2 with new features is running. DSpace is running on 150 
sites worldwide. Several countries have translated the interface into 
Chinese, Portugese, French, etc.  They are using SourceForge for 
outside developers to add source code.  More than HP and MIT are 
working on the code now.  They are also doing an early adopters study. 
They are also interviewing faculty, submitters, and administrators.  
They are working with MArsha Sanders on marketing plan. DSpace was 
originally open to communities but now they are open to individual 
faculty because some faculty belonged to more than one community.  They 
are sending out postcards inviting faculty. Has been since Nov 2002 as 
a service. It is now sustained by grant money.They have a 2-tiered 
service level. One level for free. 2nd tier (premium) for more space. 
If they want someone to create the metadata for them they can buy that 
service. SMA has used this.  This will be available on their site. 
Servers are moving over to Libraries computer room in bldg 14. 
Libraires systems office is going to be running the hardware for MIT 
DSpace. STS?

Ed Tech Events:
- TWT first major updates happening this week
- Ed Tech Times - won a SIGUCCS award.  Newly enhanced site will be 
released within the next two weeks.
- New Learning Spaces initiatives (and promotion for this) - Student 
Learning Spaces Redesign event - October 18 to celebrate the work done 
over the summer in N20-575, E51, and bldg 56 clusters.

MITCET:
  (Bob Brown is staying on for 1 year as Provost).  Reconstituted MITCET 
has identified 3 areas of interest for ed tech initiatives for the 
coming year:
1. Sustainability - how to move successful projects into supported 
services (funding)
2. Digital content and the infrastructure needed for the sharing of 
digital content
3. Dissemination at MIT (Some of the ways IS&T AC is supporting this: 
Ed Tech Inventory, Ed Tech Fair)
iCampus is not funding as many projects at MIT. Some funding will be 
going to the sharing of previous iCampus projects to other areas of the 
world. (5 projects: TEAL, 6.001, iLab, ?,?)

- Marsha has been asking for old records about ed tech projects and has 
gotten all of the material to do a timeline of how we started out 5 
years ago to where we are now.

Auditor's Office: Looking to support worthy long term initiatives.

Misc:
- Ed Media conference next year (June 2005?) will be in Montreal.
- Ed Tech Fair: * Jean will send out the invitation to the ed tech 
partners list for ed Tech services to present.
- Future Ed Tech Partners events:  If you have suggestions for 
presentations or topics you would like to discuss, let Jean know.
*Marsha suggested we invite Laurie Breslow to talk about assessments of 
projects.

***No meeting in November because of the Ed Tech Fair. Next meeting 
will be Mon December 6 in the Bush Room (10-105).


From dennett at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct  5 16:42:48 2004
From: dennett at MIT.EDU (John Dennett)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:42:48 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Partners meeting notes - 10/4/2004
In-Reply-To: <0AA96F6C-163C-11D9-A5B6-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>
References: <0AA96F6C-163C-11D9-A5B6-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <1E54C616-170F-11D9-A419-0003939CD39C@mit.edu>

Hi folks!  Just a little OCW followup...

The learning community/discussion forum initiative is run by Utah State 
University.  You can see the first seven courses they are supporting at 
http://ols.usu.edu/

Our latest traffic stats show that last month was our biggest ever -- 
490,443 visitors (not page hits).  Unique visitors from October 2003 to 
the end of last month: 2,177,745.  Yes, that's 2 million people and 
counting!

Cheers!
John
--
John Dennett
MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Liaison
Room 9-235B, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
voice: 617-253-5244   fax: 617-253-2115
mailto:dennett at mit.edu   http://ocw.mit.edu
On Oct 4, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Jean Foster wrote:

> OCW: They just met their latest publishing milestone. As of Sept 17 
> there are 900 MIT subjects published!  They believe they are at the 
> halfway point and so are  having a celebration today for the MIT 
> community - 4:00 in 10-250 and then the Bush Room for cocktails.  
> Future plans: an OCW conference in 2005; working with other schools 
> who want to have their own OCW.  There are many foreign language 
> translations, spanish, chinese, taiwanese.  Partners in Utah 
> University of Utah(?) is stating a set of 7 forums with faculty who 
> will work on discussion boards with people who are trying to learn 
> from the course.  Learning communities - partnering with university in 
> Utah, they are starting a set of 7 forums, which will have faculty 
> participating through discussion boards,.
>
> - OCW Organization changes: 2 FLs from other cycles Farnaz (was 
> EECS,Civil, & Aero) is now the outreach liaison to institutions 
> outside MIT.  Sandy M. (was SHASS, HST liaison) is now the production 
> manager & is doing faculty video interviews).  More staged video 
> lectures & lab demos in future.  Millions of people are visiting the 
> OCW site and their are lots of regular repeat visitors.   New 
> assessment surveys will be conducted this fall.  Next big effort is 
> recruiting faculty for the next cycle. Helping faculty transcribe 
> notes. These can then be put on the current Stellar site.  They are 
> hiring students to take notes for OCW at the discretion of the 
> instructor.   Some of the OCW Department Liaisons are auditing courses 
> and taking their own notes.  They have until 2007 for the next 900. 
> They are still giving some funds to each course. ($2k)  After that 
> they will be in "steady state", adding as needed & maintaining.
>
> Academic Computing:
> Katie is now the group leader of Educational Technology Consultants.  
> ETCs are doing more project-based consulting. Phil is 50% director of 
> iCampus outreach.  Jean is the Academic Computing communications 
> person reporting to Vijay.  New group for Installations and Spaces led 
> by Bill Fitzgerald.  Another Software Tools group led by Jeff 
> Merriman.
> - Katie and Carter Snowden working on an Ed Tech Projects Inventory 
> pilot - collecting information about all of the ed tech projects at 
> MIT.  They have started wtih the School of Science, SHASS, They have 
> set up a database.  Surprising amount of projects going on and some 
> surprising findings about which depts are doing what.  The report will 
> be out soon. Katie and Carter will present at a future Ed Tech 
> Partners about this. They are hoping the report will be reviewed by 
> the end of the semester.  The pilot is successful enough and there is 
> enough interest in the data for the project to continue.
> * John Dennett suggested that the OCW micro teams might be of use by 
> the end of October after they have made all of the contacts for the 
> current semester. Katie should call John at the end of October.
> This inventory is of interest to DSpace as well.
>
> DSpace:
> Version 1.2 with new features is running. DSpace is running on 150 
> sites worldwide. Several countries have translated the interface into 
> Chinese, Portugese, French, etc.  They are using SourceForge for 
> outside developers to add source code.  More than HP and MIT are 
> working on the code now.  They are also doing an early adopters study. 
> They are also interviewing faculty, submitters, and administrators.  
> They are working with MArsha Sanders on marketing plan. DSpace was 
> originally open to communities but now they are open to individual 
> faculty because some faculty belonged to more than one community.  
> They are sending out postcards inviting faculty. Has been since Nov 
> 2002 as a service. It is now sustained by grant money.They have a 
> 2-tiered service level. One level for free. 2nd tier (premium) for 
> more space. If they want someone to create the metadata for them they 
> can buy that service. SMA has used this.  This will be available on 
> their site. Servers are moving over to Libraries computer room in bldg 
> 14. Libraires systems office is going to be running the hardware for 
> MIT DSpace. STS?
>
> Ed Tech Events:
> - TWT first major updates happening this week
> - Ed Tech Times - won a SIGUCCS award.  Newly enhanced site will be 
> released within the next two weeks.
> - New Learning Spaces initiatives (and promotion for this) - Student 
> Learning Spaces Redesign event - October 18 to celebrate the work done 
> over the summer in N20-575, E51, and bldg 56 clusters.
>
> MITCET:
>  (Bob Brown is staying on for 1 year as Provost).  Reconstituted 
> MITCET has identified 3 areas of interest for ed tech initiatives for 
> the coming year:
> 1. Sustainability - how to move successful projects into supported 
> services (funding)
> 2. Digital content and the infrastructure needed for the sharing of 
> digital content
> 3. Dissemination at MIT (Some of the ways IS&T AC is supporting this: 
> Ed Tech Inventory, Ed Tech Fair)
> iCampus is not funding as many projects at MIT. Some funding will be 
> going to the sharing of previous iCampus projects to other areas of 
> the world. (5 projects: TEAL, 6.001, iLab, ?,?)
>
> - Marsha has been asking for old records about ed tech projects and 
> has gotten all of the material to do a timeline of how we started out 
> 5 years ago to where we are now.
>
> Auditor's Office: Looking to support worthy long term initiatives.
>
> Misc:
> - Ed Media conference next year (June 2005?) will be in Montreal.
> - Ed Tech Fair: * Jean will send out the invitation to the ed tech 
> partners list for ed Tech services to present.
> - Future Ed Tech Partners events:  If you have suggestions for 
> presentations or topics you would like to discuss, let Jean know.
> *Marsha suggested we invite Laurie Breslow to talk about assessments 
> of projects.
>
> ***No meeting in November because of the Ed Tech Fair. Next meeting 
> will be Mon December 6 in the Bush Room (10-105).
>
> _______________________________________________
> ed-tech mailing list
> ed-tech at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ed-tech


From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct  5 16:46:47 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:46:47 -0400
Subject: [Fwd: [edtech] Ed Tech Partners meeting notes - 10/4/2004]-
	corrections
Message-ID: <1097009206.26076.804.camel@arizona.mit.edu>

Notes corrections:
DSpace:
Version 1.2 with new features is running. DSpace is running on
APPROXIMATELY 150 sites worldwide. Several countries have translated the
interface into Chinese, Portugese, French, etc.  They are using
SourceForge for outside developers to add source code.  More than HP and
MIT are working on the code now.  They are also doing an early adopters
study. They are also interviewing faculty, submitters, and
administrators.  
> They are working with Marsha Sanders on marketing plan. DSpace was
> originally open to communities but now they are open to individual
> faculty because some faculty belonged to more than one community. 
> They are sending out postcards inviting faculty. Has been since Nov
> 2002 as a service. It is now sustained by grant money.  They have a
> 2-tiered service level. One level for free. 2nd tier for FEE. EXAMPLES
> OF PREMIUM SERVICES ARE EXTRA space OR if they want someone to create
> the metadata for them they can buy that service. SMA has used this
> METADATA CREATION SERVICE.  A DESCRIPTION OF THESE SERVICES will be
> available on their site. Servers are moving over to Libraries computer
> room in bldg 14. Libraries systems office is going to be running the
> hardware for MIT DSpace. 

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Jean Foster <jfoster at MIT.EDU>
To: ed-tech at mit.edu
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Partners meeting notes - 10/4/2004
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:31:51 -0400

(Please let me know if I got any of the details wrong)
Present: Jean Foster(IS&T Academic Computing), Katie Vale(IS&T AC), 
DeeDee Kane(SloanSpace), Peter Hess(SMA), Molly Ruggles(SMA), Marsha 
Sanders (Provost's Office/MITCET) Margret 
Branschofsky(DSpace-Libraries), John Dennett(OCW), William 
Reilly(Libraries), John Dvorak(MIT Auditors Office)

Roundtable:
SloanSpace:
Major server upgrade the week before the class of 2006 arrived. Entire 
summer devoted to the upgrade. No new functionality but this opens the 
path for future enhancements.  They conducted feedback interviews with 
faculty and TAs, and will be doing students next.  They had a 
consultant help with the protocol and interviews. Presented a report to 
the dean. They are going to prioritize a list of new features from 
this.  The results confirmed what they already knew.

Libraries Digital Archiving: Archving from OCW to DSpace. When a new 
OCW class is put up the old version would be archived in DSpace.  They 
are writing metadata, so that faculty can pull out reusable learning 
objects.  Also pulling in entire OCW site. Using IMS-cp (content 
package) & METS metadata encoding and transmitting standard) Planning 
and specing  prototypes at this point.

OCW: They just met their latest publishing milestone. As of Sept 17 
there are 900 MIT subjects published!  They believe they are at the 
halfway point and so are  having a celebration today for the MIT 
community - 4:00 in 10-250 and then the Bush Room for cocktails.  
Future plans: an OCW conference in 2005; working with other schools who 
want to have their own OCW.  There are many foreign language 
translations, spanish, chinese, taiwanese.  Partners in Utah University 
of Utah(?) is stating a set of 7 forums with faculty who will work on 
discussion boards with people who are trying to learn from the course.  
Learning communities - partnering with university in Utah, they are 
starting a set of 7 forums, which will have faculty participating 
through discussion boards,.

- OCW Organization changes: 2 FLs from other cycles Farnaz (was 
EECS,Civil, & Aero) is now the outreach liaison to institutions outside 
MIT.  Sandy M. (was SHASS, HST liaison) is now the production manager & 
is doing faculty video interviews).  More staged video lectures & lab 
demos in future.  Millions of people are visiting the OCW site and 
their are lots of regular repeat visitors.   New assessment surveys 
will be conducted this fall.  Next big effort is recruiting faculty for 
the next cycle. Helping faculty transcribe notes. These can then be put 
on the current Stellar site.  They are hiring students to take notes 
for OCW at the discretion of the instructor.   Some of the OCW 
Department Liaisons are auditing courses and taking their own notes.  
They have until 2007 for the next 900. They are still giving some funds 
to each course. ($2k)  After that they will be in "steady state", 
adding as needed & maintaining.

Academic Computing:
Katie is now the group leader of Educational Technology Consultants.  
ETCs are doing more project-based consulting. Phil is 50% director of 
iCampus outreach.  Jean is the Academic Computing communications person 
reporting to Vijay.  New group for Installations and Spaces led by Bill 
Fitzgerald.  Another Software Tools group led by Jeff Merriman.
- Katie and Carter Snowden working on an Ed Tech Projects Inventory 
pilot - collecting information about all of the ed tech projects at 
MIT.  They have started wtih the School of Science, SHASS, They have 
set up a database.  Surprising amount of projects going on and some 
surprising findings about which depts are doing what.  The report will 
be out soon. Katie and Carter will present at a future Ed Tech Partners 
about this. They are hoping the report will be reviewed by the end of 
the semester.  The pilot is successful enough and there is enough 
interest in the data for the project to continue.
* John Dennett suggested that the OCW micro teams might be of use by 
the end of October after they have made all of the contacts for the 
current semester. Katie should call John at the end of October.
This inventory is of interest to DSpace as well.

DSpace:
Version 1.2 with new features is running. DSpace is running on 150 
sites worldwide. Several countries have translated the interface into 
Chinese, Portugese, French, etc.  They are using SourceForge for 
outside developers to add source code.  More than HP and MIT are 
working on the code now.  They are also doing an early adopters study. 
They are also interviewing faculty, submitters, and administrators.  
They are working with MArsha Sanders on marketing plan. DSpace was 
originally open to communities but now they are open to individual 
faculty because some faculty belonged to more than one community.  They 
are sending out postcards inviting faculty. Has been since Nov 2002 as 
a service. It is now sustained by grant money.They have a 2-tiered 
service level. One level for free. 2nd tier (premium) for more space. 
If they want someone to create the metadata for them they can buy that 
service. SMA has used this.  This will be available on their site. 
Servers are moving over to Libraries computer room in bldg 14. 
Libraires systems office is going to be running the hardware for MIT 
DSpace. STS?

Ed Tech Events:
- TWT first major updates happening this week
- Ed Tech Times - won a SIGUCCS award.  Newly enhanced site will be 
released within the next two weeks.
- New Learning Spaces initiatives (and promotion for this) - Student 
Learning Spaces Redesign event - October 18 to celebrate the work done 
over the summer in N20-575, E51, and bldg 56 clusters.

MITCET:
  (Bob Brown is staying on for 1 year as Provost).  Reconstituted MITCET 
has identified 3 areas of interest for ed tech initiatives for the 
coming year:
1. Sustainability - how to move successful projects into supported 
services (funding)
2. Digital content and the infrastructure needed for the sharing of 
digital content
3. Dissemination at MIT (Some of the ways IS&T AC is supporting this: 
Ed Tech Inventory, Ed Tech Fair)
iCampus is not funding as many projects at MIT. Some funding will be 
going to the sharing of previous iCampus projects to other areas of the 
world. (5 projects: TEAL, 6.001, iLab, ?,?)

- Marsha has been asking for old records about ed tech projects and has 
gotten all of the material to do a timeline of how we started out 5 
years ago to where we are now.

Auditor's Office: Looking to support worthy long term initiatives.

Misc:
- Ed Media conference next year (June 2005?) will be in Montreal.
- Ed Tech Fair: * Jean will send out the invitation to the ed tech 
partners list for ed Tech services to present.
- Future Ed Tech Partners events:  If you have suggestions for 
presentations or topics you would like to discuss, let Jean know.
*Marsha suggested we invite Laurie Breslow to talk about assessments of 
projects.

***No meeting in November because of the Ed Tech Fair. Next meeting 
will be Mon December 6 in the Bush Room (10-105).

_______________________________________________
ed-tech mailing list
ed-tech at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ed-tech
-- 
Jean Foster <jfoster at mit.edu>

From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct  7 10:56:36 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:56:36 -0400
Subject: [edtech] 2004 Ed Tech Fair - call for service providers'
	participation
Message-ID: <162A5B25-1871-11D9-AC18-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>

WHAT: 2004 MIT Ed Tech Fair
WHEN: Tuesday, November 2, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lobby 13 and the Bush Room
WHO: Targeted at MIT Faculty but open to the community
RSVP: To edtech-requests at mit.edu ASAP but no later than October 15

We hope your educational technology service group will be represented 
at this year's fair,  which promises to be even bigger and better 
attended by faculty than 2003's.   We may be short on space this year 
which would mean service groups might have to be share booths.  Let us 
know if this will be a problem,  and RSVP as soon as possible so that 
your service can be listed on the Fair web site!

If you will be participating,  please answer the questions below to 
help us with the planning.
------------------------------------------------
Name of service or group (as you would want it listed on the Ed Tech 
Fair web site):

How many people from your group will be coming:

Names and email addresses of attendees:

Equipment you will be bringing: (laptop, monitor, workstation, etc.):

Technology will you need (We can't promise we can supply everything you 
need, so this will be on a "first come, first served" basis.):
	- Power
	- Network connectivity (wireless is available)
	- Special video display or projection equipment (please be specific)
	- Other

Will you be bringing printed materials (brochures, newsletters, 
posters, etc.)?
	- If so, what size?
---------------------------

Regards,
Jean and the 2004 Ed Tech Fair Planning Team
----------------
Jean Foster
Communications Coordinator, Academic Computing
MIT Information Services and Technology
x3.3909, jfoster at mit.edu


From jpotts at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct  7 11:37:57 2004
From: jpotts at MIT.EDU (Jon Paul Potts)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:37:57 -0400
Subject: [edtech] 2004 Ed Tech Fair - call for service providers
 participation
In-Reply-To: <162A5B25-1871-11D9-AC18-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>
References: <162A5B25-1871-11D9-AC18-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <a06002010bd8b113ce43c@[18.89.2.233]>

Jean,

Please sign OpenCourseWare up for a booth at the Ed Tech Fair. I have 
filled out the info below, and please let me know what else you might 
need from me. You can reach me at 2-3621 or <jpotts at mit.edu>

Thanks!
Jon Paul


Name of service or group (as you would want it listed on the Ed Tech 
Fair web site):
MIT OpenCourseWare

How many people from your group will be coming:
Two (Jon Paul Potts and an OCW Faculty Liaison)

Names and email addresses of attendees:
Jon Paul Potts <jpotts at mit.edu>, faculty liaisons are yet to be determined

Equipment you will be bringing: (laptop, monitor, workstation, etc.):
Two laptops, and a projector

Technology will you need (We can't promise we can supply everything 
you need, so this will be on a "first come, first served" basis.):
Power -- A power cord would be useful as we are going to have two 
laptops and a projector to plug in
Network Connectivity -- MIT wireless should be fine
Special video display or projection equipment (please be specific) -- 
If possible, could we get a small screen? Or a white background 
hanging in our booth? If not, can we get a really big monitor that 
will hook into our laptops?
Other

Will you be bringing printed materials (brochures, newsletters, posters, etc.)?
Yes, we will be bringing about 100 MIT OCW brochures. They are 
four-color, high-quality glossy brochures printed at 7 inches wide, 
by 11 1/2 inches tall

From sgass at MIT.EDU  Fri Oct  8 11:35:21 2004
From: sgass at MIT.EDU (Steve Gass)
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:35:21 -0400
Subject: [edtech] 2004 Ed Tech Fair - call for service providers'
  participation
In-Reply-To: <162A5B25-1871-11D9-AC18-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041008093051.016e6938@hesiod>

Hi Jean,

The Libraries will be participating.  Ideally we'd like our own 
booth.  Info is provided below.

Thanks,

Steve

At 10:56 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, Jean Foster wrote:
>WHAT: 2004 MIT Ed Tech Fair
>WHEN: Tuesday, November 2, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
>WHERE: Lobby 13 and the Bush Room
>WHO: Targeted at MIT Faculty but open to the community
>RSVP: To edtech-requests at mit.edu ASAP but no later than October 15
>
>We hope your educational technology service group will be represented at 
>this year's fair,  which promises to be even bigger and better attended by 
>faculty than 2003's.   We may be short on space this year which would mean 
>service groups might have to be share booths.  Let us know if this will be 
>a problem,  and RSVP as soon as possible so that your service can be 
>listed on the Fair web site!
>
>If you will be participating,  please answer the questions below to help 
>us with the planning.
>------------------------------------------------
>Name of service or group (as you would want it listed on the Ed Tech Fair 
>web site):

MIT Libraries is the organization.  As for services, those listed on at 
http://web.mit.edu/teachtech/ website that are Library supported is a place 
to start, particularly the section on digital documents:  Digital Archiving 
(DSpace), Scanning for Web Courseware, eReserves, Metadata Services, 
Spatial Data.


>How many people from your group will be coming:

We will try to staff with two people during the day, with people doing 
specific shifts


>Names and email addresses of attendees:

I won't have this information finalized until later this month.


>Equipment you will be bringing: (laptop, monitor, workstation, etc.):

Probably two laptops and a projector


>Technology will you need (We can't promise we can supply everything you 
>need, so this will be on a "first come, first served" basis.):
>         - Power

yes, please

>         - Network connectivity (wireless is available)

wireless should be fine

>         - Special video display or projection equipment (please be specific)

a screen or white surface to display on

>         - Other
>
>Will you be bringing printed materials (brochures, newsletters, posters, 
>etc.)?
>         - If so, what size?

yes, standard brochures.

>---------------------------
>
>Regards,
>Jean and the 2004 Ed Tech Fair Planning Team
>----------------
>Jean Foster
>Communications Coordinator, Academic Computing
>MIT Information Services and Technology
>x3.3909, jfoster at mit.edu
>
>_______________________________________________
>ed-tech mailing list
>ed-tech at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ed-tech


Steve Gass
Associate Director for Public Services
MIT Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-216
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

617.253.7058
617.253.8894 (Fax)
sgass at mit.edu
http://libraries.mit.edu


From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Fri Oct  8 17:03:54 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:03:54 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: Death of the Classroom? And, Thank
	YouIts Been Great Fun
Message-ID: <200410082103.i98L3sqc021396@jaki.mit.edu>

 Ed Tech Times Update: Death of the Classroom? And, Thank You?It?s Been Great Fun 

                            October 08, 2004


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    By Phillip D. Long
    Traditional classrooms don?t necessarily prohibit building
    things or doing technology-supported inquiry, but they have not
    exactly facilitated the flexible transition from one learning
    mode to another. Some 10 years ago, the Great One (that?s Wayne
    Gretsky, for all you non-sports fans) attributed his skill on
    the ice by saying, ?I skate to where the puck is going to be,
    not where it has been.? So where are the classrooms going, and
    are we building them to what we currently ?know,? based on our
    past and current experiences, or for tomorrow? 

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From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct 11 10:59:17 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:59:17 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Fwd: ePortfolio 2004 Conference 
Message-ID: <1F76E454-1B96-11D9-AC18-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>

FYI:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc." <IMS at imsglobal.org>
> Date: October 8, 2004 2:43:28 PM EDT
> To: <CMAnnounce at imsglobal.org>
> Subject: ePortfolio 2004 Conference
>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> We invite you to register for the?2nd International Conference on the 
> electronic portfolio: ePortfolio 2004 at www.europortfolio.org?that 
> will be taking place in La Rochelle, France on 28th and 29th October 
> 2004.? ?European IMS, www.europeanims.org, is sponsoring the 
> Technology Track at the Conference.
>
> This 2-day conference brings together the world's leading experts who 
> will speak on the state of the art; ePortfolios for?schools, higher 
> education, continuing professional development and lifelong learning.? 
> The work of a major European Commission-supported project (EPICC) 
> concerning ePortfolio interoperability in which European IMS is a 
> partner will also be presented.
>
> Conference delegates will have the opportunity not only to benefit 
> from expert input, but also to share their own expertise and ideas. To 
> this end the programme also contains interactive workshops and 'open 
> space' sessions to allow the exploration of a wide range of ePortfolio 
> issues, including IPR, accessibility, privacy, technology etc. The 
> Technology Track which includes a presentation by Darren Cambridge 
> (EDUCAUSE) on the IMS ePortfolio specification. The full programme can 
> be found at 
> http://www.qwiki.info/projects/Europortfolio/ep2004/programme/
>
> We also invite you to participate in the conference?s online survey on 
> the electronic portfolio - the first international survey of its kind: 
> http://www.qwiki.info/projects/Europortfolio/surveys/eps1
> The results of this survey will be presented at the Conference and 
> made available to all respondees.
>
> ePortfolio 2004 also includes?an exhibition of ePortfolio solutions 
> and initiatives. The Platinum Sponsor for the conference is Nuventive, 
> the producer of iWebFolio (www.iwebfolio.com). An ePortfolio gallery 
> will also take place in the exhibition where individual ePortfolio 
> owners can present their personal ePortfolio. More information is 
> available at 
> http://www.qwiki.info/projects/Europortfolio/ep2004/gallery
>
> Last year's event attracted participants from 22 countries and 
> resulted in numerous initiatives, including the creation of 
> Europortfolio, the European Consortium for the ePortfolio and LIfIA 
> (Learning Innovation Forum, Canada)and other national and 
> international ePortfolio events (London, Dublin, Vancouver, Melbourne 
> in 2004).
>
> We believe that the ePortfolio will have a major transformational 
> impact on learning at all levels, education, organisation of human 
> resources and social capital development and that the conference will 
> be an opportunity to promote the access to ePortfolios for all 
> citizens to value their achievements.
>
>  You will find full details of the conference on the conference 
> website.

From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct 14 09:27:24 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:24 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: New Lessons in Course Management
Message-ID: <200410141327.i9EDROgE009418@jaki.mit.edu>

(((((((( Ed Tech Times Update: New Lessons in Course Management ))))))))

                            October 14, 2004


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    (From University Business Magazine.)  
    In mid-July, just one week before college and university
    leaders were to launch into their summer season of conferences,
    a nonprofit group known as The Sakai Project
    (www.sakaiproject.org) introduced software for higher education
    providers to use for course management. Sakai's project leaders
    timed the announcement right.

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From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct 18 11:07:07 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:07:07 -0400
Subject: [edtech] 
 New computing spaces grand opening event today, noon-1:00, W20-575D
Message-ID: <61019952-2117-11D9-8BF4-000A959B1E68@mit.edu>

Hi,

There will be an event in celebration of the newly redesign student 
cluster spaces today at noon in W20-575D.  The renovations in 3 student 
computing clusters were accomplished over the summer and were designed 
to support collaborative work in a flexible way with special equipment 
and comfortable seating.  These are exciting new spaces which are worth 
seeing and celebrating.  There will be food, demos, and guest speakers.

Hope you can stop by.

-jean-


From ganderso at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct 21 11:04:34 2004
From: ganderso at MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:04:34 -0400
Subject: [edtech] IS&T Open House, N42, Thurs. Oct. 28,  noon - 5 pm
In-Reply-To: <A92827D8-213D-11D9-ABF1-000A9590A046@mit.edu>
References: <A92827D8-213D-11D9-ABF1-000A9590A046@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <848BACF3-2372-11D9-85CE-000A9590A046@mit.edu>

Good morning,

In appreciation of our work together and in celebration of the new 
academic year, IS&T would like to invite you to an Open House on 
Thursday, Oct. 28, from noon - 5 pm in building N42, located at 211 
Mass. Ave.

If you have not visited N42 this fall, this is an opportunity to learn 
more about the newly created combined service center located at the 
front of the building. Please stop by, have some refreshments, and get 
better acquainted with the IS&T services offered in N42, including the 
Computing Help Desk, Software Services, Academic Computing, IT Security 
Support, a new Training Room, etc.  Representatives from Apple, Dell, 
GovConnection, HP, and IBM will be in the lobby, and we'll be holding 
hourly prize drawings throughout the afternoon.

So, please join us for a festive time to learn more about IS&T, meet 
some of our staff, talk with vendors, and enjoy each other's company.

Sincerely,

Greg
=============
Greg Anderson
Director, Client Support Services
MIT Information Services and Technology
Room N42-175
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5654
ganderso at mit.edu



From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct 19 15:37:06 2004
From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:37:06 -0400
Subject: [edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 10
Message-ID: <a06002009bd9b1d1d2a49@[18.89.2.233]>

----------------------------------------------------------------
The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: October 2004

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
----------------------------------------------------------------

The October 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. Nobelist Publishes Two Courses
2. How Big is the MIT OCW Web Site?
3. Digging Deeper: Unified Engineering
4. A Frequently Asked Question
5. Comments
6. Newsletter Available Online at 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm



1. Nobelist Publishes Two Courses
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MIT Professor Frank Wilczek has won the 
<http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2004/>2004 Nobel Prize in 
Physics for a "colorful" discovery in the world of quarks, the 
building blocks of the atomic nucleus.

<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/nobel-wilczek.html>Wilczek's 
work, which involves the dominant -- or "color," force between quarks 
-- is key to several major problems in particle physics and beyond. 
Wilczek, 53, shares the prize of about $1.3 million with David J. 
Gross of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and H. David 
Politzer of the California Institute of Technology.

Check out his two courses published on MIT OCW: 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-325Spring2003/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
8.325 -- Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III, which directly 
reflects on the work that won Wilczek the Nobel Prize, and 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-012Physics-IFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
8.012 -- Physics I, an introductory physics course which presents 
elementary mechanics, Newton's laws, concepts of momentum, energy, 
angular momentum, rigid body motion, and non-inertial systems.



2. How Big is the MIT OCW Web Site?
----------------------------------------------------------------
The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses, 
ranging from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT schools -- 
<http://web.mit.edu/sap/www/>Architecture and Planning, 
<http://web.mit.edu/engineering/>Engineering, 
<http://web.mit.edu/science/>Science, 
<http://web.mit.edu/shass/>Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and 
the <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/indexflash.php>Sloan School of 
Management. With more than 900 courses available, users frequently 
ask, "Just how much educational content is really available on the 
MIT OCW Web site?"

MIT OCW is a content-rich Web site that is 48 gigabytes in size; 
offering courses that contain 14,717 HTML pages, 15,640 unique PDF 
documents, and 16,078 images -- overall 55,171 total files for use by 
MIT's global audience. All of this is made available through the 
generosity of 536 MIT faculty, with many more signed on for future 
publication cycles.



4. Digging Deeper: Unified Engineering
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The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses, 
including one of the most famous courses from MIT's Department of 
Aeronautics and Astronautics, 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
16.01-04: Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV.

The challenging course is the bane of sophomore year for MIT 
Aero/Astro majors. It combines the disciplines of materials and 
structures, computer programming, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, 
propulsion, signals and systems, and systems and labs, into a 
year-long course designed to introduce the systemic nature of 
aerospace engineering... And it is by far the biggest course ever 
published on the MIT OCW site. Its inclusion marks a major publishing 
milestone for MIT OCW and a unique opportunity for the 
<http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/>MIT Department of Aero/Astro to 
share its pedagogical approach with the world.

"Unified Engineering is the signature course for aero/astro at the 
undergraduate level and it embodies the essence of aerospace 
engineering education at MIT," said 
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/harris-0514.html>Professor Wesley 
L. Harris, the head of the aero/astro department. "The opportunity 
afforded us to publish Unified through OCW brings benefits to the 
students, to the faculty involved in the teaching of the materials, 
and to others outside of the department and beyond MIT. We are better 
equipped to continuously improve Unified Engineering now that it is 
so easily accessible to all our faculty."

The new course site features more than four times the volume of 
educational materials of a typical one-semester MIT course -- about 
1,500 different files, including 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>video 
course introductions by Professors Charles Coleman and Ian Waitz, 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/UnifiedConcepts/index.htm>Lecture 
Notes on the Unified Concept, and 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/SystemsLabs/index.htm#video>Video 
Footage of the semester project -- an aerial design contest. 
During the spring semester, most systems problems relate to the 
semester's aerial design competition. Teams of four or five students 
work together to design an aircraft to achieve the highest score. To 
optimize their system, each team must evaluate 
trades between payload, endurance, maneuverability and durability, 
subject to the constraints and objectives of the aerial competition.

Read more about Unified Engineering on the 
<http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10042&typeid=156>Syllabus 
Magazine Web site.



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give  proper attribution to the original MIT faculty author(s). 
Please utilize the following citation: "This material was created by 
or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member, (Name), 
(Title). Copyright ? (Year) (Faculty Member's Name)."

As an example, the citation for 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Linear-AlgebraFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
18.06 Linear Algebra taught by MIT Professor Gilbert Strang would 
read, "This material was created or adapted from material created by 
MIT faculty member Gilbert Strang, Professor. Copyright ? 2002 
Gilbert Strang."

If you want to use the materials on your Web site, you must also 
include a copy of the MIT OCW 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>Creative Commons 
license, or clear and reasonable link to its URL 
(<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm), 
with every copy of the MIT materials or the derivative work you 
create from it.



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From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct 26 17:20:00 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:20:00 -0400
Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Fair - Tuesday, November 2, 10 - 2 Lobby 13
Message-ID: <1098825600.1205.606.camel@arizona.mit.edu>

Hi,

Just a reminder to all to come to the fair! 

WHAT: 2004 Educational Technology Fair 
WHERE: Lobby 13
WHEN: Tuesday, November 2, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

This is an opportunity to see what sorts of interesting educational
technology projects MIT faculty are working on and a chance to learn
about about what our colleagues who provide educational technology
services are up to.

For those of you who will have service booths at the fair, someone from
the planning team will be in contact with you this week to confirm
equipment needs. 

There will be no Ed Tech Partners meeting in November because of the
fair.

-jean-
-- 
Jean Foster
Communications Coordinator
MIT IS&T Academic Computing
N42-040, x3-3909

From jfoster at MIT.EDU  Fri Oct 29 10:59:40 2004
From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:59:40 -0400
Subject: [edtech] 
 Ed Tech Times Update: MIT Educational Technology Fair - Tuesday, Nov. 2
Message-ID: <200410291459.i9TExe34024552@jaki.mit.edu>

 Ed Tech Times Update: MIT Educational Technology Fair - Tuesday, Nov. 2 

                            October 29, 2004


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    Come see what your colleagues at MIT are doing with educational
    technologies at the 2004 Ed Tech Fair which will be held
    Tuesday, November 2 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in Lobby
    13.

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http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000052.html




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