Goal

• Primary : to provide MIT faculty and students information and support for technology resources that support their teaching, learning and research efforts.
• Secondary : to allow the world to gain an understanding of how technology resources are used to support teaching, learning and research at MIT

Clients

• Primary
  • MIT Faculty
  • Students
• Secondary
  • MIT Administrators
  • Faculty and Students from other universities
  •  Educational Technology focused groups from other universities
  • Others?

Reference Sites

• Primary
  • Current IS&T Educational Technology site
  • MIT’s Teaching with Technology site.
• Secondary
  • Other universities’ EdTech Sites
  • Others?

Content Classification

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Resources

Teaching Resources

• Course Management
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Multimedia(Images, Audio, Video )
• Software (Mathematical , GIS etc)
• Pedagogical Tools ( Special software, Clickers etc )
• Assessment Tools (Online Course Evaluation)
• Other (Eg: Travel Profile, Who teaches what? Websis?)

Research Resources

• Server hosting
• Document Management
• Multimedia (Images, Audio, Video)
• Web Development
• Software

Template for each resource

• Overview of the resource
• Link to the resource (People can get to it via A-Z) as well
• Statistics of use (Dynamic.. Talk to stellar team to provide dynamic data as an RSS feed)
• Link to the gallery of use (under the practice section)
• Help (A list of answers from Hermes with this search term

Practices

• Examples of how faculty are using stellar, wikis, (Relate, Barbara Hughey etc), library videos, ilabs, etc
• Assessment of Technology Ideas (David Singer)
• Copyright Code from OCW
• Summary statistics of use of various tools
• TWT, ETC links
• Ed tech grants links

Practice Gallery Template

• Overview
• Software used
• Description of use case scenario
• Statistical data on use
• Feedback

Spaces

• Clusters
• Learning Spaces
• Classrooms