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Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Educational Media Creation Center EMCC Mike Barker Manager, EMCC mbarker@mit. edu March 15, 2001 1

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC What is the EMCC? • A center for production • A collaboration • A collection of resources and competencies The right place to go for scalable, sustainable educational media solutions. March 15, 2001 2

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC The EMCC Work • Ranges from individual drop-in consultations at the New Media Center to the creation of innovative web-based classes. • To help us in our mission, we are developing Stellar, an open architecture, standards based platform for Web based education. • Supports on-campus education, major distance learning programs such as the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and special projects with select corporate partners of MIT. March 15, 2001 3

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC The EMCC Provides • Design and web programming support for major Institute educational initiatives • “Building Block” services in prototype, production, and operational versions; • Consultation • instructional design, graphic design, technological design • developing ideas for instructional experiments with web-based multimedia into proposals and projects. • Design, Implementation, and Production Service transition assistance for websites • Services to help users self-educate, analyze, access available projects and resources March 15, 2001 4

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC The EMCC Staff • The EMCC exists to help members of the MIT Community get educational content on the web. • Our staff members have the talents for that job, including instructional design, project management, site design, graphical design, page layout, programming, and server administration. March 15, 2001 5

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Process • • • Research and Strategy Design Specifications Production Integration, Test, Rework Operation March 15, 2001 6

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Design Specifications • • • Pedagogical Approach Graphical Design Technical Design (site map, software) Content Design Operations and Maintenance Plan March 15, 2001 7

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Stellar A Learning Management System for MIT November, 1999: “Design of a reference architecture for enterprise-wide, sustainable web-based multimedia services, which will provide a framework for buying, developing, and modifying materials and services so that they meet local needs and cooperate with Institute-wide goals. ” March 15, 2001 8

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC What is Stellar? The Problem How can we provide web-based course support for MIT? The Answer Stellar: a web-based course management system for MIT March 15, 2001 9

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Key Stellar Tools • Content Creation, Management, and Presentation: Showing Materials to People • Collaboration Tools (Discussion board, chat, etc. ) Helping People Work Together • Assessment Tools (quiz, test, survey, etc. ) Checking How People are Learning • Assignment Handling Helping with Homework handling • Gradebook Keeping Track of the Work March 15, 2001 10

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Process Components of Stellar Registration (authentication, user profile, class signup, list management) Administration (grade book, calendar) Content Presentation Collaboration (discussion board, email, chat) (syllabus, calendar, table of contents, course portal) Content Management Assessment (quizzes, exams, course evaluations) Setup Content Creation Renewal (create course, course templates) (digitization and consumption) (re-use, archive, portfolio) March 15, 2001 11

Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC Get In Touch With Us! Use our suggestions form at <http: //web. mit. edu/stellar/www/comments. html> Write us at stellar-suggest@mit. edu Contact us: Phil Long 452 -4038 <longpd@mit. edu> or Mike Barker 253 -0119 <mbarker@mit. edu> March 15, 2001 12