Educational Media Creation Center EMCC

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Educational Media Creation CenterEMCC
Mike BarkerManager, EMCCmbarker_at_mit.edu
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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Process

• Research and Strategy
• Design Specifications
• Production
• Integration, Test, Rework
• Operation

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Design Specifications

• Pedagogical Approach
• Graphical Design
• Technical Design (site map, software)
• Content Design
• Operations and Maintenance Plan

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StellarA 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.
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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

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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

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Process Components of Stellar
 Registration (authentication, user profile, class signup, list management) Content Presentation (syllabus, calendar, table of contents, course portal) Collaboration (discussion board, email, chat)
Administration (grade book, calendar) Content Management Assessment (quizzes, exams, course evaluations)
Setup (create course, course templates) Content Creation (digitization and consumption) Renewal (re-use, archive, portfolio)
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Get In Touch With Us!

• Use our suggestions form at lthttp//web.mit.edu/st
  ellar/www/comments.htmlgt
• Write us at stellar-suggest_at_mit.edu
• Contact us
• Phil Long 452-4038 ltlongpd_at_mit.edugt or
• Mike Barker 253-0119 ltmbarker_at_mit.edugt